Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, June 2012
224 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 17 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 4.5% of them.
Titles in this thread
Change: percentage points against a year before| # | Title | Posts | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Full Stack EngineerWorks across the browser, the API and the database; the default startup hire.4.5% · an example posting | 4.5% | 10 | +4.1 |
| 2 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.6% · an example posting | 3.6% | 8 | +1.2 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.2.2% · an example posting | 2.2% | 5 | -0.2 |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.2.2% · e.g. * We love Clojure programmers! * | 2.2% | 5 | +1.8 |
| 5 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.2.2% · an example posting | 2.2% | 5 | +1.8 |
| 6 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.8% · e.g. Cisco | 1.8% | 4 | +1.8 |
| 7 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.1.3% · an example posting | 1.3% | 3 | +0.9 |
| 8 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.90% · e.g. Oyster.com, the Hotel Tell-All | 0.90% | 2 | +0.9 |
| 9 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.0.90% · e.g. Oyster.com, the Hotel Tell-All | 0.90% | 2 | +0.9 |
| 10 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.0.90% · e.g. Olark | 0.90% | 2 | +0.5 |
| 11 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 1 | -1.2 |
| 12 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |
| 13 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |
| 14 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |
| 15 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.40% · e.g. Torbit in Sunnyvale CA | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |
| 16 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |
| 17 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |