Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, August 2016
736 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 28 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% · e.g. Manzama | 14% | 102 | +5.6 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.5.4% · e.g. Pivotal | 5.4% | 40 | +0.7 |
| 3 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.3% · an example posting | 5.3% | 39 | +0.1 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.6% · e.g. Gambit Research Ltd | 4.6% | 34 | +0.8 |
| 5 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.3% · an example posting | 4.3% | 32 | +1.0 |
| 6 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.3.9% · an example posting | 3.9% | 29 | +2.6 |
| 7 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.3.8% · e.g. Canary | 3.8% | 28 | +0.1 |
| 8 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.4% · e.g. Compose | 2.4% | 18 | +0.0 |
| 9 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.1.9% · an example posting | 1.9% | 14 | +1.1 |
| 10 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.2% · e.g. OpenSignal | 1.2% | 9 | +0.4 |
| 11 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.1.2% · e.g. Hipmunk | 1.2% | 9 | +0.7 |
| 12 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.0% · e.g. Pivotal | 1.0% | 7 | +0.1 |
| 13 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.1.0% · an example posting | 1.0% | 7 | +0.5 |
| 14 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.0% · e.g. Stormpath | 1.0% | 7 | +0.6 |
| 15 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.0% · e.g. HelloSign | 1.0% | 7 | +0.1 |
| 16 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.70% · e.g. AdRoll | 0.70% | 5 | +0.1 |
| 17 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.50% · e.g. Oden Technologies | 0.50% | 4 | +0.2 |
| 18 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.40% · e.g. MORSE Corp | 0.40% | 3 | -0.1 |
| 19 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.40% · e.g. Pusher | 0.40% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 20 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.40% · e.g. Dispatch | 0.40% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 21 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.40% · e.g. Trusted | 0.40% | 3 | +0.0 |
| 22 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.30% · e.g. Sentenai | 0.30% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 23 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.30% · e.g. Neumitra | 0.30% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 24 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.10% · an example posting | 0.10% | 1 | -0.4 |
| 25 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.10% · e.g. Asteria/Playa | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 26 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.10% · e.g. Asteria/Playa | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 27 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.10% · e.g. Healx | 0.10% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 28 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.10% · e.g. LeanTaaS | 0.10% | 1 | +0.0 |