Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, August 2017
722 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 28 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. ecosia | 14% | 103 | +0.4 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.7.2% · e.g. BOOKING.COM | 7.2% | 52 | +1.9 |
| 3 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.7% · e.g. Human API | 5.7% | 41 | +1.9 |
| 4 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.5.4% · e.g. BOOKING.COM | 5.4% | 39 | +0.0 |
| 5 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.5.1% · e.g. Wealthfront | 5.1% | 37 | +0.5 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.6% · e.g. BOOKING.COM | 4.6% | 33 | +0.3 |
| 7 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.3.0% · e.g. Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services | 3.0% | 22 | +1.1 |
| 8 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.5% · e.g. Wealthfront | 2.5% | 18 | +0.1 |
| 9 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.2.4% · an example posting | 2.4% | 17 | -1.5 |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.1.9% · e.g. WriteLab | 1.9% | 14 | +0.7 |
| 11 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.7% · e.g. Pivotal | 1.7% | 12 | +0.7 |
| 12 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.7% · an example posting | 1.7% | 12 | +0.7 |
| 13 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.1.0% · e.g. Mozilla | 1.0% | 7 | +0.7 |
| 14 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.80% · e.g. GetYourGuide | 0.80% | 6 | -0.4 |
| 15 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.70% · e.g. Wealthport.com | 0.70% | 5 | +0.4 |
| 16 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.70% · e.g. ResearchGate | 0.70% | 5 | +0.2 |
| 17 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.60% · e.g. Datawire | 0.60% | 4 | -0.4 |
| 18 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.60% · e.g. Occipital | 0.60% | 4 | +0.2 |
| 19 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.40% · e.g. WriteLab | 0.40% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 20 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 21 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.40% · e.g. Zapier | 0.40% | 3 | +0.0 |
| 22 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.40% · e.g. Captain401 | 0.40% | 3 | -0.3 |
| 23 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.30% · e.g. ExecVision.io | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 24 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.30% · e.g. OSARO INC | 0.30% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 25 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.30% · e.g. Pusher | 0.30% | 2 | -0.7 |
| 26 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.10% · e.g. Quora | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 27 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.10% · an example posting | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 28 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.10% · e.g. LoadDocs | 0.10% | 1 | -0.3 |