Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, March 2016
665 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 24 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 13% 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.13% · e.g. Step.com | 13% | 88 | +2.9 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.6.5% · e.g. Booking.com | 6.5% | 43 | +2.1 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.6.2% · e.g. Pivotal | 6.2% | 41 | +2.2 |
| 4 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.1% · e.g. Openvote | 5.1% | 34 | +1.1 |
| 5 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.1% · e.g. Mixlr | 4.1% | 27 | +0.3 |
| 6 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.3.5% · e.g. Distil Networks | 3.5% | 23 | +1.3 |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.0% · e.g. Serverless, Inc. | 3.0% | 20 | +0.4 |
| 8 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.2.3% · an example posting | 2.3% | 15 | +2.1 |
| 9 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.1.2% · e.g. VideoStitch | 1.2% | 8 | +0.6 |
| 10 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.1.2% · e.g. ReactiveOps | 1.2% | 8 | +0.4 |
| 11 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.1.1% · e.g. VideoStitch | 1.1% | 7 | +0.3 |
| 12 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.1.1% · e.g. San Francisco | 1.1% | 7 | +0.3 |
| 13 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.0.90% · e.g. Pivotal | 0.90% | 6 | -0.5 |
| 14 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.90% · e.g. Periscope Data | 0.90% | 6 | +0.1 |
| 15 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.80% · an example posting | 0.80% | 5 | +0.6 |
| 16 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.0.60% · an example posting | 0.60% | 4 | -0.6 |
| 17 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.60% · an example posting | 0.60% | 4 | +0.2 |
| 18 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.50% · e.g. Second Measure | 0.50% | 3 | +0.5 |
| 19 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.30% · e.g. Entrepreneur First | 0.30% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 20 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.30% · e.g. VideoStitch | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 21 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.30% · e.g. Catalytic | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 22 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. TrueCar | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 23 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.20% · e.g. Cognii | 0.20% | 1 | -0.6 |
| 24 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | -0.4 |