Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, April 2015
744 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 27 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 11% 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.11% · e.g. Square, New York City | 11% | 78 | +2.0 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.4% · e.g. RAND Corporation | 5.4% | 40 | +2.6 |
| 3 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.0% · e.g. Square, New York City | 5.0% | 37 | +1.6 |
| 4 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.4.8% · e.g. Square, New York City | 4.8% | 36 | -0.3 |
| 5 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.3.9% · an example posting | 3.9% | 29 | -0.6 |
| 6 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.2.8% · e.g. Tachyus | 2.8% | 21 | +1.7 |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.1.5% · e.g. CITYMAPPER | 1.5% | 11 | -1.9 |
| 8 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.3% · e.g. CloudFlare | 1.3% | 10 | +0.5 |
| 9 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.1.1% · e.g. CloudFlare | 1.1% | 8 | +0.5 |
| 10 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.0.90% · e.g. Company: Praetorian | 0.90% | 7 | +0.3 |
| 11 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.80% · e.g. Visidraft | 0.80% | 6 | +0.2 |
| 12 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.0.80% · e.g. Amazon EC2 Container Service | 0.80% | 6 | -0.6 |
| 13 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.70% · e.g. Control Group | 0.70% | 5 | +0.1 |
| 14 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.70% · e.g. Slice | 0.70% | 5 | -0.2 |
| 15 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.50% · e.g. PagerDuty | 0.50% | 4 | -0.1 |
| 16 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.40% · e.g. iHeartRadio NYC | 0.40% | 3 | -0.2 |
| 17 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 3 | +0.1 |
| 18 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.40% · e.g. Codecademy | 0.40% | 3 | -0.2 |
| 19 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.30% · e.g. Scry Analytics | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 20 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 21 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 22 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.10% · e.g. Head of Data Infrastructure | 0.10% | 1 | -0.5 |
| 23 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.10% · e.g. NLP Engineer | 0.10% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 24 | Forward Deployed EngineerAn engineer who ships software inside a customer's environment, part builder and part consultant; Palantir coined it, AI labs made it common.0.10% · e.g. MemSQL | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 25 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.10% · e.g. Bolt | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 26 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.10% · e.g. Granify | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 27 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.10% · e.g. Criteo | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |