Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, December 2011
203 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 14 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Product Designer, in 6.9% of them.
Titles in this thread
Change: percentage points against a year before| # | Title | Posts | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.6.9% · an example posting | 6.9% | 14 | - |
| 2 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.2.5% · e.g. INTERN or FULLTIME | 2.5% | 5 | - |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.2.0% · an example posting | 2.0% | 4 | - |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.1.5% · an example posting | 1.5% | 3 | - |
| 5 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.1.5% · an example posting | 1.5% | 3 | - |
| 6 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.0% · an example posting | 1.0% | 2 | - |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.1.0% · an example posting | 1.0% | 2 | - |
| 8 | Full Stack EngineerWorks across the browser, the API and the database; the default startup hire.0.50% · e.g. San Francisco | 0.50% | 1 | - |
| 9 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 1 | - |
| 10 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 1 | - |
| 11 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 1 | - |
| 12 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.0.50% · e.g. Knewton | 0.50% | 1 | - |
| 13 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 1 | - |
| 14 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 1 | - |