Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, March 2013
289 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 18 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 5.5% 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.5.5% · e.g. Educreations | 5.5% | 16 | +4.7 |
| 2 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.8% · an example posting | 4.8% | 14 | +3.6 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.3.5% · an example posting | 3.5% | 10 | +0.7 |
| 4 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.2.4% · e.g. TheLadders.com | 2.4% | 7 | +0.0 |
| 5 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.2.4% · an example posting | 2.4% | 7 | +0.8 |
| 6 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.1.7% · e.g. Liftopia | 1.7% | 5 | +0.5 |
| 7 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.0% · an example posting | 1.0% | 3 | +0.2 |
| 8 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.1.0% · e.g. +--------------------------------+ | 1.0% | 3 | +0.6 |
| 9 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.1.0% · an example posting | 1.0% | 3 | -0.6 |
| 10 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.70% · an example posting | 0.70% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 11 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.70% · an example posting | 0.70% | 2 | +0.7 |
| 12 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.0.70% · e.g. @AppNexus | 0.70% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 13 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 14 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 15 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 16 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.0.30% · e.g. Parse | 0.30% | 1 | -0.5 |
| 17 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.30% · e.g. Parse | 0.30% | 1 | -0.5 |
| 18 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.30% · e.g. Dextro | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |