Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, February 2017
940 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 32 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 17% 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.17% · e.g. Hologram | 17% | 156 | +4.8 |
| 2 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.4% · e.g. Oden Technologies | 5.4% | 51 | +2.3 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.5.4% · e.g. Aha! | 5.4% | 51 | -1.3 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.5.1% · e.g. CyVerse | 5.1% | 48 | +2.0 |
| 5 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.4.9% · e.g. Oden Technologies | 4.9% | 46 | -2.4 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.4% · e.g. Hologram | 3.4% | 32 | -2.2 |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.7% · e.g. M Science | 2.7% | 25 | -0.1 |
| 8 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.2.3% · e.g. ion interactive | 2.3% | 22 | +0.6 |
| 9 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.2% · e.g. Human API | 2.2% | 21 | +1.3 |
| 10 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.1.7% · e.g. Distil Networks | 1.7% | 16 | +0.8 |
| 11 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.7% · e.g. Spiceworks | 1.7% | 16 | +0.6 |
| 12 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.4% · an example posting | 1.4% | 13 | +0.5 |
| 13 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.3% · e.g. Booking.com | 1.3% | 12 | +0.1 |
| 14 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.0% · e.g. Amazon New Product Demand Forecasting | 1.0% | 9 | +0.5 |
| 15 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.0% · e.g. LaunchDarkly | 1.0% | 9 | +0.8 |
| 16 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.70% · an example posting | 0.70% | 7 | +0.2 |
| 17 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.50% · e.g. Distil Networks | 0.50% | 5 | +0.3 |
| 18 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.50% · e.g. Cognii | 0.50% | 5 | +0.0 |
| 19 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.50% · e.g. mbr targeting / Ströer Digital Group | 0.50% | 5 | +0.0 |
| 20 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 4 | -0.2 |
| 21 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 4 | +0.4 |
| 22 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.40% · e.g. TaskRabbit | 0.40% | 4 | -0.2 |
| 23 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.20% · e.g. mbr targeting / Ströer Digital Group | 0.20% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 24 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.20% · e.g. 10x Genomics | 0.20% | 2 | -0.4 |
| 25 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 26 | Forward Deployed EngineerAn engineer who ships software inside a customer's environment, part builder and part consultant; Palantir coined it, AI labs made it common.0.10% · e.g. Oden Technologies | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 27 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.10% · e.g. MORSE Corp | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 28 | AI Deployment EngineerDeploys and tunes an AI product or agent inside a customer's stack; a close cousin of the forward deployed engineer.0.10% · an example posting | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 29 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.10% · e.g. Quora | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 30 | Agent EngineerBuilds LLM agents that plan and call tools, and the harnesses that keep them reliable.0.10% · e.g. Scalyr | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 31 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.10% · e.g. trymya.io | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 32 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.10% · e.g. Etherbit | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |