Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, May 2016
665 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 27 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% · an example posting | 13% | 88 | +1.8 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.6.6% · e.g. Booking.com | 6.6% | 44 | +0.0 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.6.0% · e.g. Pivotal | 6.0% | 40 | +1.2 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.5.0% · an example posting | 5.0% | 33 | -0.1 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.3.9% · an example posting | 3.9% | 26 | +1.0 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.6% · e.g. Booking.com | 3.6% | 24 | -1.5 |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.1% · e.g. Compose | 2.1% | 14 | -0.6 |
| 8 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.1.8% · e.g. Olark.com | 1.8% | 12 | +0.6 |
| 9 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.4% · e.g. Senior Application Security Engineer | 1.4% | 9 | +0.3 |
| 10 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.2% · e.g. Pivotal | 1.2% | 8 | +0.0 |
| 11 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.1.2% · e.g. Uber | 1.2% | 8 | +0.8 |
| 12 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.1% · e.g. TrueCar | 1.1% | 7 | -0.1 |
| 13 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.90% · e.g. MORSE Corp | 0.90% | 6 | +0.1 |
| 14 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.90% · an example posting | 0.90% | 6 | +0.8 |
| 15 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.90% · an example posting | 0.90% | 6 | -0.2 |
| 16 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.90% · e.g. Voleon | 0.90% | 6 | +0.1 |
| 17 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.80% · an example posting | 0.80% | 5 | +0.5 |
| 18 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.60% · e.g. Diffbot | 0.60% | 4 | +0.6 |
| 19 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.60% · e.g. 10x Genomics | 0.60% | 4 | -0.5 |
| 20 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.50% · e.g. Unata | 0.50% | 3 | +0.5 |
| 21 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.50% · e.g. TrueCar | 0.50% | 3 | +0.5 |
| 22 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. NGP VAN | 0.30% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 23 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 24 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.30% · e.g. XSELL Technologies | 0.30% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 25 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.30% · e.g. Jupiter Technologies Corp. | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 26 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 27 | 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 |