Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, March 2017
785 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 29 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. Omni | 16% | 122 | +2.3 |
| 2 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.6.0% · e.g. Oden Technologies | 6.0% | 47 | +2.5 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.5.9% · e.g. Teachers Pay Teachers | 5.9% | 46 | -0.3 |
| 4 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.1% · e.g. Oden Technologies | 5.1% | 40 | -1.4 |
| 5 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.6% · e.g. Distil Networks | 4.6% | 36 | -0.5 |
| 6 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.3% · e.g. EDITED | 4.3% | 34 | +0.2 |
| 7 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.3.7% · e.g. JustWatch | 3.7% | 29 | +2.5 |
| 8 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.9% · e.g. Quora | 2.9% | 23 | -0.1 |
| 9 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.4% · e.g. Second Measure | 1.4% | 11 | +0.9 |
| 10 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.4% · an example posting | 1.4% | 11 | +0.8 |
| 11 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.1.3% · e.g. Distil Networks | 1.3% | 10 | -1.0 |
| 12 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.3% · e.g. WeFarm | 1.3% | 10 | +0.4 |
| 13 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.1% · e.g. Pusher | 1.1% | 9 | +0.2 |
| 14 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.90% · e.g. Quora | 0.90% | 7 | -0.2 |
| 15 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.80% · e.g. Hustle | 0.80% | 6 | +0.2 |
| 16 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.60% · an example posting | 0.60% | 5 | -0.2 |
| 17 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.50% · e.g. InteraXon | 0.50% | 4 | +0.5 |
| 18 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.50% · e.g. Latently | 0.50% | 4 | +0.5 |
| 19 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.40% · e.g. Occipital | 0.40% | 3 | -0.7 |
| 20 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.40% · e.g. RBC ACE | 0.40% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 21 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.40% · e.g. Stitch | 0.40% | 3 | +0.1 |
| 22 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.40% · e.g. 10x Genomics | 0.40% | 3 | -0.8 |
| 23 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.40% · e.g. Tenable | 0.40% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 24 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.30% · e.g. Improbable | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 25 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. Work Market | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 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 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.10% · e.g. Quora | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 28 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.10% · an example posting | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 29 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.10% · e.g. Agolo | 0.10% | 1 | -0.2 |