Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, June 2015
586 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 25 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 9.6% 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.9.6% · e.g. Parkopedia | 9.6% | 56 | +0.2 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.7.0% · e.g. Plume Labs | 7.0% | 41 | +3.5 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.5.5% · e.g. Parkopedia | 5.5% | 32 | -1.8 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.9% · an example posting | 4.9% | 29 | +1.7 |
| 5 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.9% · an example posting | 3.9% | 23 | +1.3 |
| 6 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.3.8% · e.g. Stockholm, Sweden | 3.8% | 22 | +1.5 |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.7% · e.g. CITYMAPPER | 2.7% | 16 | +1.5 |
| 8 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.1.5% · an example posting | 1.5% | 9 | +0.9 |
| 9 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.2% · an example posting | 1.2% | 7 | +1.2 |
| 10 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.1.0% · e.g. ReactiveOps | 1.0% | 6 | +0.7 |
| 11 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.0.90% · e.g. Distil Networks | 0.90% | 5 | -0.6 |
| 12 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.90% · e.g. Dextro | 0.90% | 5 | +0.9 |
| 13 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.70% · e.g. Rally Health | 0.70% | 4 | +0.4 |
| 14 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.0.70% · e.g. Mesosphere | 0.70% | 4 | -0.5 |
| 15 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.50% · e.g. NGP VAN | 0.50% | 3 | +0.5 |
| 16 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.50% · e.g. Sift Science | 0.50% | 3 | +0.2 |
| 17 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.50% · e.g. CloudFlare, Inc | 0.50% | 3 | +0.5 |
| 18 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.30% · e.g. Stockholm, Sweden | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 19 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.30% · e.g. Neumitra | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 20 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.20% · e.g. Fliver | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 21 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 22 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 23 | 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% · e.g. ShipCompliant | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 24 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.20% · e.g. Zoomer | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 25 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |