Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, June 2017
730 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 31 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 14% 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.14% · e.g. NearSt | 14% | 101 | +2.6 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.6.7% · e.g. BOOKING.COM | 6.7% | 49 | +2.4 |
| 3 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.6.2% · e.g. ResearchGate | 6.2% | 45 | +1.1 |
| 4 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.6.2% · e.g. LetsLunch.com | 6.2% | 45 | +1.5 |
| 5 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.8% · e.g. ZestFinance | 4.8% | 35 | +0.8 |
| 6 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.4.0% · e.g. Gambit Research Ltd | 4.0% | 29 | +1.5 |
| 7 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.0% · e.g. BOOKING.COM | 3.0% | 22 | -0.8 |
| 8 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.2.9% · e.g. ResearchGate | 2.9% | 21 | +1.5 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.2% · an example posting | 2.2% | 16 | +0.0 |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.1% · e.g. Dropbox | 2.1% | 15 | +1.6 |
| 11 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.4% · e.g. Quobyte | 1.4% | 10 | +0.4 |
| 12 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.2% · an example posting | 1.2% | 9 | -0.4 |
| 13 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.1.1% · e.g. Hadean | 1.1% | 8 | +0.8 |
| 14 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.1% · e.g. Plaid | 1.1% | 8 | +0.2 |
| 15 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.1.0% · e.g. Cloud Academy | 1.0% | 7 | +0.0 |
| 16 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.0% · e.g. System1 | 1.0% | 7 | -0.2 |
| 17 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.80% · e.g. SK T-Brain | 0.80% | 6 | +0.5 |
| 18 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.70% · e.g. FullContact | 0.70% | 5 | -0.1 |
| 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. ResearchGate | 0.50% | 4 | +0.2 |
| 20 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.50% · e.g. Wheelhouse | 0.50% | 4 | +0.4 |
| 21 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.50% · e.g. HeadSpin | 0.50% | 4 | -0.5 |
| 22 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.40% · e.g. Robby Technologies | 0.40% | 3 | -0.1 |
| 23 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.30% · e.g. Lambda Labs | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 24 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.10% · e.g. SK T-Brain | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 25 | Agent EngineerBuilds LLM agents that plan and call tools, and the harnesses that keep them reliable.0.10% · an example posting | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 26 | Member of Technical StaffA deliberately flat title from Bell Labs, revived by AI labs for engineers and researchers alike.0.10% · e.g. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 27 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.10% · e.g. PBSA | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 28 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.10% · e.g. Quora | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.10% · e.g. Tetra | 0.10% | 1 | -0.3 |
| 31 | 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 | -0.3 |