Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, January 2012
146 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 13 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Product Designer, in 4.1% 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.4.1% · an example posting | 4.1% | 6 | - |
| 2 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.2.1% · e.g. San Francisco: | 2.1% | 3 | - |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.2.1% · an example posting | 2.1% | 3 | - |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.1.4% · e.g. MyEnergy | 1.4% | 2 | - |
| 5 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.1.4% · an example posting | 1.4% | 2 | - |
| 6 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.1.4% · e.g. San Francisco: | 1.4% | 2 | - |
| 7 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.1.4% · an example posting | 1.4% | 2 | - |
| 8 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.70% · an example posting | 0.70% | 1 | - |
| 9 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.70% · e.g. Kicksend | 0.70% | 1 | - |
| 10 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.70% · an example posting | 0.70% | 1 | - |
| 11 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.0.70% · an example posting | 0.70% | 1 | - |
| 12 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.70% · an example posting | 0.70% | 1 | - |
| 13 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.70% · an example posting | 0.70% | 1 | - |