Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, May 2017
828 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 31 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 18% 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.18% · an example posting | 18% | 146 | +4.4 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.6.2% · an example posting | 6.2% | 51 | -0.4 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.5.4% · an example posting | 5.4% | 45 | -0.6 |
| 4 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.3% · an example posting | 5.3% | 44 | +1.7 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.4.8% · e.g. ClearBrain | 4.8% | 40 | +0.9 |
| 6 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.1% · e.g. Ultimate Software | 4.1% | 34 | -0.9 |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.9% · e.g. Quora | 2.9% | 24 | +0.8 |
| 8 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.2.5% · an example posting | 2.5% | 21 | +0.7 |
| 9 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.2.2% · e.g. Plaid | 2.2% | 18 | +1.0 |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.1.9% · e.g. Quora | 1.9% | 16 | +1.0 |
| 11 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.2% · e.g. Pivotal | 1.2% | 10 | +0.0 |
| 12 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.2% · e.g. Appboy | 1.2% | 10 | -0.2 |
| 13 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.2% · e.g. Amazon New Product Demand Forecasting | 1.2% | 10 | +0.6 |
| 14 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.1.2% · an example posting | 1.2% | 10 | +0.3 |
| 15 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.1% · an example posting | 1.1% | 9 | +0.0 |
| 16 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.1.0% · e.g. TD Securities | 1.0% | 8 | +0.7 |
| 17 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.80% · e.g. Appboy | 0.80% | 7 | +0.0 |
| 18 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.60% · e.g. GrokStyle | 0.60% | 5 | +0.5 |
| 19 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.60% · e.g. Vector Software, Inc. | 0.60% | 5 | +0.3 |
| 20 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.60% · e.g. Aconex | 0.60% | 5 | +0.0 |
| 21 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.50% · e.g. Occipital | 0.50% | 4 | -0.4 |
| 22 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.50% · e.g. SimpleLegal | 0.50% | 4 | +0.2 |
| 23 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.20% · e.g. Outcomes.com | 0.20% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 24 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.10% · e.g. Quora | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 25 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.10% · e.g. Lazada eLogistics | 0.10% | 1 | -0.4 |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | AI Product ManagerA product manager for model-powered products, fluent in evals and model behaviour.0.10% · e.g. Radius | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 29 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.10% · e.g. Spoke | 0.10% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 30 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.10% · e.g. We're hiring like crazy at Serverless! | 0.10% | 1 | -0.8 |
| 31 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.10% · e.g. LeanTaaS | 0.10% | 1 | -0.4 |