Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, March 2015
504 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 23 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 10% 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.10% · e.g. Prezi | 10% | 52 | +2.3 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.4.4% · e.g. Nomi | 4.4% | 22 | +1.4 |
| 3 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.0% · e.g. Qubit | 4.0% | 20 | -1.4 |
| 4 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.4.0% · e.g. Chartboost [ https://chartboost.com ] | 4.0% | 20 | -1.4 |
| 5 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.3.8% · e.g. Parelio | 3.8% | 19 | +1.1 |
| 6 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.6% · e.g. NerdWallet | 2.6% | 13 | +0.8 |
| 7 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.2.2% · e.g. Nexedi | 2.2% | 11 | +0.7 |
| 8 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.4% · e.g. McKinsey Digital Labs | 1.4% | 7 | +0.5 |
| 9 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.2% · e.g. Company: Praetorian | 1.2% | 6 | +0.9 |
| 10 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.80% · e.g. Nexedi | 0.80% | 4 | +0.8 |
| 11 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.80% · e.g. Nomi | 0.80% | 4 | +0.2 |
| 12 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.80% · e.g. Shopular | 0.80% | 4 | +0.2 |
| 13 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.0.80% · an example posting | 0.80% | 4 | +0.2 |
| 14 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.80% · e.g. Slice | 0.80% | 4 | +0.2 |
| 15 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.60% · e.g. Nexedi | 0.60% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 16 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.60% · e.g. Splay, Inc. | 0.60% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 17 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.60% · e.g. Mixmax | 0.60% | 3 | -0.3 |
| 18 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.40% · e.g. Codecademy | 0.40% | 2 | -0.8 |
| 19 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 20 | AI Deployment EngineerDeploys and tunes an AI product or agent inside a customer's stack; a close cousin of the forward deployed engineer.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 21 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.0.20% · e.g. Mesosphere-San Francisco | 0.20% | 1 | -0.4 |
| 22 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.20% · e.g. 3 positions | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 23 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |