Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, July 2017
756 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 32 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. Relayr | 14% | 109 | -0.4 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.6.5% · e.g. Poki - | 6.5% | 49 | +1.5 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.6.1% · e.g. Poki - | 6.1% | 46 | +1.7 |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.2% · e.g. Thinknum | 5.2% | 39 | +2.0 |
| 5 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.4.4% · e.g. Tulip | 4.4% | 33 | +1.3 |
| 6 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.0% · e.g. Poki - | 4.0% | 30 | -1.7 |
| 7 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.6% · e.g. Poki - | 3.6% | 27 | -1.1 |
| 8 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.0% · e.g. Second Spectrum | 2.0% | 15 | +0.0 |
| 9 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.1.7% · e.g. CRITEO | 1.7% | 13 | +0.5 |
| 10 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.5% · an example posting | 1.5% | 11 | +0.3 |
| 11 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.1.5% · e.g. PlanGrid | 1.5% | 11 | -0.7 |
| 12 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.0.90% · e.g. Pathgather | 0.90% | 7 | -0.6 |
| 13 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.90% · e.g. Minimax Labs Ltd. | 0.90% | 7 | +0.8 |
| 14 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.0.90% · e.g. Facebook | 0.90% | 7 | -0.4 |
| 15 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.80% · e.g. Flip | 0.80% | 6 | +0.4 |
| 16 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.70% · e.g. Blue Vision Labs | 0.70% | 5 | +0.0 |
| 17 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.70% · e.g. Leap Motion | 0.70% | 5 | +0.4 |
| 18 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.70% · e.g. SimpleLegal | 0.70% | 5 | +0.3 |
| 19 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.50% · e.g. StackShare | 0.50% | 4 | -1.1 |
| 20 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.50% · e.g. FogHorn Systems | 0.50% | 4 | -0.2 |
| 21 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 3 | +0.0 |
| 22 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.30% · e.g. Under the radar for now | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 23 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.30% · e.g. Wheelhouse | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 24 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.30% · e.g. SalesLoft | 0.30% | 2 | -0.7 |
| 25 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.30% · e.g. Lambda Labs | 0.30% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 26 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.10% · e.g. Vernacular.AI | 0.10% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 27 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.10% · e.g. LoadDocs | 0.10% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 28 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.10% · an example posting | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 29 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.10% · e.g. Modsy | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 30 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.10% · e.g. iwoca | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 31 | 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 |
| 32 | Agent EngineerBuilds LLM agents that plan and call tools, and the harnesses that keep them reliable.0.10% · e.g. Zillow Group | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |