Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, September 2016
642 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 28 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. StoryWorth | 15% | 96 | +4.4 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.6.2% · e.g. Poki - | 6.2% | 40 | +0.9 |
| 3 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.1% · e.g. Poki - | 5.1% | 33 | -1.5 |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.0% · e.g. OpenSignal | 5.0% | 32 | +0.8 |
| 5 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.7% · e.g. Gambit Research Ltd | 4.7% | 30 | -0.2 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.4% · e.g. Booking.com | 4.4% | 28 | +0.4 |
| 7 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.4.2% · e.g. Gambit Research Ltd | 4.2% | 27 | +3.2 |
| 8 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.3% · e.g. Smarkets | 3.3% | 21 | +0.3 |
| 9 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.4% · an example posting | 1.4% | 9 | +0.8 |
| 10 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.1% · e.g. Booking.com | 1.1% | 7 | +0.2 |
| 11 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.1.1% · an example posting | 1.1% | 7 | -0.5 |
| 12 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.90% · e.g. Second Spectrum | 0.90% | 6 | -0.1 |
| 13 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.90% · e.g. ScaleFT | 0.90% | 6 | +0.5 |
| 14 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.80% · e.g. Dispatch | 0.80% | 5 | -0.2 |
| 15 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.0.80% · e.g. Pivotal | 0.80% | 5 | -0.9 |
| 16 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.80% · e.g. Sentenai | 0.80% | 5 | +0.7 |
| 17 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.80% · e.g. Doberman Design | 0.80% | 5 | +0.1 |
| 18 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.60% · e.g. Sqreen | 0.60% | 4 | +0.3 |
| 19 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.50% · e.g. Dispatch | 0.50% | 3 | +0.5 |
| 20 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.50% · e.g. Outcomes.com | 0.50% | 3 | +0.2 |
| 21 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.50% · e.g. Cognii | 0.50% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 22 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.50% · e.g. Snowplow Analytics | 0.50% | 3 | -0.2 |
| 23 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.50% · e.g. Booz Allen Hamilton | 0.50% | 3 | +0.2 |
| 24 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.30% · e.g. Tamedia | 0.30% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 25 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.30% · e.g. Bonsai | 0.30% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 26 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.30% · e.g. Healx | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 27 | Agent EngineerBuilds LLM agents that plan and call tools, and the harnesses that keep them reliable.0.20% · e.g. Scalyr | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 28 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.20% · e.g. Baidu Silicon Valley AI Lab | 0.20% | 1 | +0.1 |