Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, July 2016
683 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 27 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 15% 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.15% · e.g. Airtame | 15% | 101 | +5.2 |
| 2 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.5.7% · e.g. Gambit Research Ltd | 5.7% | 39 | +0.8 |
| 3 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.0% · e.g. Penn Medicine | 5.0% | 34 | -1.1 |
| 4 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.7% · e.g. Booking.com | 4.7% | 32 | +0.3 |
| 5 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.4.4% · e.g. Pivotal | 4.4% | 30 | -0.8 |
| 6 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.3.2% · e.g. Blink Health | 3.2% | 22 | -0.3 |
| 7 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.3.1% · e.g. Citymapper | 3.1% | 21 | +2.3 |
| 8 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.2.2% · an example posting | 2.2% | 15 | +1.8 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.0% · e.g. Blink Health | 2.0% | 14 | -0.9 |
| 10 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.6% · e.g. Brightcove | 1.6% | 11 | +1.5 |
| 11 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.5% · e.g. Blink Health | 1.5% | 10 | -0.1 |
| 12 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.3% · e.g. Pivotal | 1.3% | 9 | +0.2 |
| 13 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.2% · e.g. Booking.com | 1.2% | 8 | +0.4 |
| 14 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.1.2% · e.g. Hipmunk | 1.2% | 8 | +0.6 |
| 15 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.1.0% · e.g. Authorea | 1.0% | 7 | +0.4 |
| 16 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.70% · e.g. Brightcove | 0.70% | 5 | +0.3 |
| 17 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.70% · e.g. Second Measure | 0.70% | 5 | +0.7 |
| 18 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.40% · e.g. Alluvium | 0.40% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 19 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.40% · e.g. TrueCar | 0.40% | 3 | +0.0 |
| 20 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.40% · e.g. Oden Technologies | 0.40% | 3 | -0.1 |
| 21 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.30% · e.g. MORSE Corp | 0.30% | 2 | -0.3 |
| 22 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.30% · e.g. TrueCar | 0.30% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 23 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.30% · e.g. Cognii | 0.30% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 24 | Member of Technical StaffA deliberately flat title from Bell Labs, revived by AI labs for engineers and researchers alike.0.10% · e.g. Fog Creek Software | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 25 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.10% · e.g. 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 | -0.1 |
| 27 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.10% · e.g. Jupiter Technologies Corp. | 0.10% | 1 | -0.3 |