Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, December 2016
633 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 31 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 16% 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.16% · an example posting | 16% | 98 | +4.9 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.5.7% · e.g. Poki - | 5.7% | 36 | +0.4 |
| 3 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.4% · e.g. Waldo Photos | 5.4% | 34 | +2.9 |
| 4 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.2% · e.g. Influential | 5.2% | 33 | -1.5 |
| 5 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.7% · e.g. ChowNow | 4.7% | 30 | +2.2 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.6% · e.g. AddStructure | 4.6% | 29 | +0.4 |
| 7 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.3.0% · an example posting | 3.0% | 19 | +0.5 |
| 8 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.2.2% · an example posting | 2.2% | 14 | +0.2 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.2% · e.g. Chimu Trading | 2.2% | 14 | +0.5 |
| 10 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.6% · e.g. Pivotal | 1.6% | 10 | +0.8 |
| 11 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.1.6% · e.g. Recursion Pharmaceuticals | 1.6% | 10 | +0.5 |
| 12 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.3% · e.g. Influential | 1.3% | 8 | +0.2 |
| 13 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.3% · e.g. CloudFlare | 1.3% | 8 | +0.2 |
| 14 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.90% · e.g. Amazon New Product Demand Forecasting | 0.90% | 6 | +0.3 |
| 15 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.80% · e.g. 10x Genomics | 0.80% | 5 | +0.5 |
| 16 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.60% · e.g. Blue Origin | 0.60% | 4 | +0.3 |
| 17 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.60% · e.g. Brightcove | 0.60% | 4 | +0.0 |
| 18 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.50% · e.g. Neumitra | 0.50% | 3 | +0.5 |
| 19 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.50% · e.g. TerrAvion | 0.50% | 3 | -0.1 |
| 20 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.30% · e.g. AddStructure | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 21 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.30% · e.g. Axial | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 22 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.30% · e.g. Harry's | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 23 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.20% · e.g. Skuid | 0.20% | 1 | -0.4 |
| 24 | AI Deployment EngineerDeploys and tunes an AI product or agent inside a customer's stack; a close cousin of the forward deployed engineer.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 25 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.20% · e.g. ParsonsCyber | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 26 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.20% · e.g. Cloudstitch | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 27 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 28 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.20% · e.g. Artory | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 29 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.20% · e.g. Facebook | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 30 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.20% · e.g. Matterport | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 31 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |