Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, December 2015
357 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 24 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. NGI Systems | 11% | 38 | -0.5 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.6.7% · e.g. Pivotal | 6.7% | 24 | +1.7 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.5.3% · e.g. Jibe | 5.3% | 19 | +1.8 |
| 4 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.2% · e.g. fuboTV | 4.2% | 15 | -0.6 |
| 5 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.2.5% · e.g. Jibe | 2.5% | 9 | -1.2 |
| 6 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.2.5% · e.g. CloudFlare | 2.5% | 9 | +1.8 |
| 7 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.2.5% · e.g. Spiceworks | 2.5% | 9 | -0.3 |
| 8 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.2.0% · e.g. Jibe | 2.0% | 7 | +0.7 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.1.7% · e.g. Exabeam | 1.7% | 6 | -0.7 |
| 10 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.1% · e.g. UpCounsel | 1.1% | 4 | +0.9 |
| 11 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.1% · e.g. Brightcove | 1.1% | 4 | +0.9 |
| 12 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.1.1% · e.g. Slice | 1.1% | 4 | +0.9 |
| 13 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.0.80% · e.g. Zerto - http://www.zerto.com - Israel | 0.80% | 3 | -0.3 |
| 14 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.60% · e.g. ShareThis | 0.60% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 15 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.60% · e.g. Fetch Robotics | 0.60% | 2 | +0.6 |
| 16 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.60% · e.g. Brightcove | 0.60% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 17 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.60% · e.g. Voleon | 0.60% | 2 | +0.6 |
| 18 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.30% · e.g. Pivotal | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 19 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 20 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 21 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 22 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.30% · e.g. Dublin, Ireland | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 23 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.30% · e.g. Applecart | 0.30% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 24 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | +0.1 |