Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, April 2016
592 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 26 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 14% 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.14% · an example posting | 14% | 80 | +3.0 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.6.6% · e.g. Unata | 6.6% | 39 | +1.2 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.6.1% · e.g. Pivotal | 6.1% | 36 | +1.3 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.7% · e.g. Unata | 4.7% | 28 | +0.8 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.4.2% · e.g. Gambit Research Ltd | 4.2% | 25 | +1.4 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.1% · e.g. Unata | 4.1% | 24 | -0.9 |
| 7 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.2.4% · e.g. 500px | 2.4% | 14 | +1.3 |
| 8 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.2.4% · an example posting | 2.4% | 14 | +1.6 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.2% · e.g. Unata | 2.2% | 13 | +0.7 |
| 10 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.0% · e.g. Brightcove | 2.0% | 12 | +1.1 |
| 11 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.1.4% · e.g. VideoStitch | 1.4% | 8 | +0.7 |
| 12 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.0% · e.g. Pivotal | 1.0% | 6 | -0.3 |
| 13 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.1.0% · e.g. Brightcove | 1.0% | 6 | +0.5 |
| 14 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.80% · e.g. Booking.com | 0.80% | 5 | +0.1 |
| 15 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.70% · e.g. Snapdocs | 0.70% | 4 | +0.3 |
| 16 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.50% · e.g. Brightcove | 0.50% | 3 | +0.1 |
| 17 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.50% · e.g. Second Measure | 0.50% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 18 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.50% · e.g. Atlas | 0.50% | 3 | +0.1 |
| 19 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.30% · e.g. VideoStitch | 0.30% | 2 | -0.5 |
| 20 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.30% · e.g. How does daily life hurt health? | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 21 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.30% · e.g. FreeWheel | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 22 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.20% · e.g. Unata | 0.20% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 23 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.20% · e.g. VideoStitch | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 24 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.20% · e.g. TrueCar | 0.20% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 25 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.20% · e.g. TrueCar | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 26 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.20% · e.g. Orbital Insight | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |