Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, April 2012
200 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 14 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Product Designer, in 4.5% 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.4.5% · an example posting | 4.5% | 9 | +3.1 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.4.0% · an example posting | 4.0% | 8 | +1.7 |
| 3 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.2.0% · e.g. Kaggle | 2.0% | 4 | +2.0 |
| 4 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.2.0% · an example posting | 2.0% | 4 | +2.0 |
| 5 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.0% · an example posting | 1.0% | 2 | +1.0 |
| 6 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.0% · an example posting | 1.0% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 7 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 8 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.0.50% · e.g. NYC | 0.50% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 9 | Full Stack EngineerWorks across the browser, the API and the database; the default startup hire.0.50% · e.g. Teamly | 0.50% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 10 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.50% · e.g. New York | 0.50% | 1 | -0.4 |
| 11 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 1 | +0.5 |
| 12 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 1 | -0.4 |
| 13 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 14 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.50% · e.g. Crimson Hexagon | 0.50% | 1 | +0.5 |