Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, January 2017
614 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 30 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% · e.g. Second Spectrum | 16% | 100 | +4.2 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.7.0% · e.g. Distil Networks | 7.0% | 43 | +1.1 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.5.4% · e.g. Pivotal | 5.4% | 33 | +0.8 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.9% · e.g. Second Spectrum | 4.9% | 30 | +1.1 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.4.2% · e.g. Distil Networks | 4.2% | 26 | +1.2 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.2.8% · e.g. Second Spectrum | 2.8% | 17 | -0.7 |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.8% · e.g. The Infatuation | 2.8% | 17 | +0.1 |
| 8 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.2.4% · an example posting | 2.4% | 15 | +0.8 |
| 9 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.0% · e.g. GE Power | 2.0% | 12 | +0.1 |
| 10 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.8% · e.g. Booking.com | 1.8% | 11 | +0.5 |
| 11 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.1.6% · e.g. Square | 1.6% | 10 | +0.3 |
| 12 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.1.6% · e.g. Second Spectrum | 1.6% | 10 | +1.1 |
| 13 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.3% · e.g. Pivotal | 1.3% | 8 | -0.3 |
| 14 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.80% · e.g. Cognii | 0.80% | 5 | +0.0 |
| 15 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.80% · e.g. Comcast | 0.80% | 5 | +0.5 |
| 16 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.70% · e.g. Amazon New Product Demand Forecasting | 0.70% | 4 | +0.2 |
| 17 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.50% · e.g. LaunchDarkly | 0.50% | 3 | +0.0 |
| 18 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.50% · e.g. Hustle | 0.50% | 3 | -0.3 |
| 19 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 3 | +0.2 |
| 20 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.30% · e.g. Founders | 0.30% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 21 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.30% · e.g. 10x Genomics | 0.30% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 22 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 23 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.30% · e.g. Osprey Informatics | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 24 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.20% · e.g. AddStructure | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.20% · e.g. PHOSPHORUS | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 27 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.20% · e.g. Asteria | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 28 | 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% · e.g. Coolblue | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 29 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.20% · e.g. Outcomes, Inc. | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 30 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |