Pear VC job titles it is hiring for
Ashby job board · 107 open jobs · 49 in tracked titles · median posted $170k
Titles it hires for
| # | Title | Open roles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit. | 16 | |
| 2 | Full Stack EngineerWorks across the browser, the API and the database; the default startup hire. | 6 | |
| 3 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets. | 5 | |
| 4 | Member of Technical StaffA deliberately flat title from Bell Labs, revived by AI labs for engineers and researchers alike. | 4 | |
| 5 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them. | 3 | |
| 6 | Forward Deployed EngineerAn engineer who ships software inside a customer's environment, part builder and part consultant; Palantir coined it, AI labs made it common. | 3 | |
| 7 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped. | 2 | |
| 8 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people. | 1 | |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads. | 1 | |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production. | 1 | |
| 11 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data. | 1 | |
| 12 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin. | 1 | |
| 13 | Legal EngineerA lawyer who builds: turns legal workflows into prompts, evals and product for legal AI tools. | 1 | |
| 14 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts. | 1 | |
| 15 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen. | 1 | |
| 16 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head. | 1 | |
| 17 | Deployment StrategistThe non-engineering half of a forward deployed team: scopes the customer problem and runs the deployment. | 1 |