Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, August 2015
784 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 28 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 8.3% 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.8.3% · e.g. Vox Supply Chain | 8.3% | 65 | -2.8 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.2% · e.g. Booking.com - | 5.2% | 41 | -1.1 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.4.7% · e.g. Agent Inbox | 4.7% | 37 | -0.6 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.3.8% · e.g. Tweag I/O | 3.8% | 30 | -0.6 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.3.7% · e.g. SpotHero | 3.7% | 29 | +0.8 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.3% · e.g. Amara | 3.3% | 26 | -1.3 |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.4% · e.g. Mesosphere | 2.4% | 19 | +0.5 |
| 8 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.1.3% · an example posting | 1.3% | 10 | +0.0 |
| 9 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.0.90% · e.g. Mesosphere | 0.90% | 7 | +0.3 |
| 10 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.0.90% · e.g. MongoDB | 0.90% | 7 | +0.1 |
| 11 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.0.80% · an example posting | 0.80% | 6 | +0.4 |
| 12 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.80% · e.g. Periscope -- Customer Support Specialist | 0.80% | 6 | +0.0 |
| 13 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.60% · e.g. FundApps [ http://www.fundapps.co ] | 0.60% | 5 | +0.2 |
| 14 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.50% · e.g. Dextro | 0.50% | 4 | +0.1 |
| 15 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.50% · e.g. WARBY PARKER : NY | 0.50% | 4 | +0.5 |
| 16 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.50% · e.g. NGP VAN | 0.50% | 4 | +0.1 |
| 17 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.50% · e.g. Max2 Inc, Makers of Scene | 0.50% | 4 | +0.1 |
| 18 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.40% · e.g. Ledgex Systems | 0.40% | 3 | +0.0 |
| 19 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 3 | -0.2 |
| 20 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.30% · e.g. MeetMe | 0.30% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 21 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.10% · e.g. WARBY PARKER : NY | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 22 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.10% · an example posting | 0.10% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 23 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.10% · e.g. Cognii | 0.10% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 24 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.10% · e.g. UpCounsel | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 25 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.10% · e.g. Data Scientist | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 26 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.10% · e.g. tCell | 0.10% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 27 | Member of Technical StaffA deliberately flat title from Bell Labs, revived by AI labs for engineers and researchers alike.0.10% · e.g. Niara | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 28 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.10% · an example posting | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |