Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, April 2017
710 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 27 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. Step.com | 16% | 116 | +2.8 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.7.2% · e.g. Takt | 7.2% | 51 | +0.6 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.5.4% · e.g. Takt | 5.4% | 38 | -0.7 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.5.2% · e.g. Polly | 5.2% | 37 | +0.5 |
| 5 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.6% · e.g. PromptWorks | 4.6% | 33 | +0.5 |
| 6 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.4.2% · e.g. Takt | 4.2% | 30 | +0.0 |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.2% · e.g. Takt | 3.2% | 23 | +1.0 |
| 8 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.3.0% · e.g. Lofty Labs | 3.0% | 21 | +0.6 |
| 9 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.1.5% · e.g. Cloudflare | 1.5% | 11 | -0.9 |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.1.5% · e.g. Windfall Data | 1.5% | 11 | +1.0 |
| 11 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.4% · e.g. Pivotal | 1.4% | 10 | +0.4 |
| 12 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.3% · e.g. Appboy-New York-Full Time-ONSITE | 1.3% | 9 | -0.7 |
| 13 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.1.3% · e.g. ShareThis | 1.3% | 9 | +0.3 |
| 14 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.0% · e.g. OpenMail | 1.0% | 7 | +0.2 |
| 15 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.80% · e.g. CyVerse | 0.80% | 6 | +0.3 |
| 16 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.70% · e.g. Appboy-New York-Full Time-ONSITE | 0.70% | 5 | +0.0 |
| 17 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.40% · e.g. We're hiring like crazy at Serverless! | 0.40% | 3 | -0.1 |
| 18 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.40% · e.g. SailPoint | 0.40% | 3 | -1.0 |
| 19 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.30% · e.g. iguazio | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 20 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. We're hiring like crazy at Serverless! | 0.30% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 21 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.30% · e.g. Savvysherpa | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 22 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.30% · e.g. Drive.ai | 0.30% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 23 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.30% · e.g. Entelo | 0.30% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 24 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.30% · e.g. Matterport | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 25 | Member of Technical StaffA deliberately flat title from Bell Labs, revived by AI labs for engineers and researchers alike.0.10% · e.g. ElpisDesign | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 26 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.10% · e.g. Outcomes.com | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 27 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.10% · e.g. AddStructure | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |