Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, September 2015
698 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. Showroom | 11% | 74 | -1.6 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.6.6% · e.g. Booking.com - | 6.6% | 46 | +3.4 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.5.3% · e.g. Booking.com - | 5.3% | 37 | +0.3 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.9% · e.g. Various Engineer positions | 4.9% | 34 | +0.6 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.4.2% · an example posting | 4.2% | 29 | +2.8 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.0% · e.g. Agent Inbox | 4.0% | 28 | -1.0 |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.0% · an example posting | 3.0% | 21 | +1.9 |
| 8 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.7% · e.g. We Are Titanium | 1.7% | 12 | +1.0 |
| 9 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.1.6% · e.g. Betable | 1.6% | 11 | +0.9 |
| 10 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.1.0% · e.g. Second Spectrum | 1.0% | 7 | +0.6 |
| 11 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.1.0% · e.g. Various Engineer positions | 1.0% | 7 | +0.3 |
| 12 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.1.0% · e.g. Spotify | 1.0% | 7 | +1.0 |
| 13 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.90% · e.g. Various Engineer positions | 0.90% | 6 | +0.9 |
| 14 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.70% · an example posting | 0.70% | 5 | +0.0 |
| 15 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.70% · e.g. Nimbl3 | 0.70% | 5 | +0.7 |
| 16 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.0.60% · an example posting | 0.60% | 4 | -1.2 |
| 17 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.40% · e.g. ## PRINCIPAL ENGINEER | 0.40% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 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 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 2 | -0.4 |
| 20 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.30% · e.g. Software Engineer | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 21 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.30% · e.g. Dublin, Ireland | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 22 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.10% · e.g. Fluid, Inc. | 0.10% | 1 | -0.3 |
| 23 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.10% · an example posting | 0.10% | 1 | -0.6 |
| 24 | 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. Compellon | 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. Company: Enlitic | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 26 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.10% · e.g. Neumitra | 0.10% | 1 | -0.3 |
| 27 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.10% · e.g. LE TOTE | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |