Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, September 2017
778 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 32 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 17% 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.17% · e.g. Clustree | 17% | 131 | +1.8 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.7.2% · e.g. Clustree | 7.2% | 56 | +2.1 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.5.8% · e.g. Etsy | 5.8% | 45 | -0.4 |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.0% · an example posting | 5.0% | 39 | +0.0 |
| 5 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.4% · e.g. Wealthfront | 4.4% | 34 | -0.3 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.2% · e.g. BOOKING.COM | 4.2% | 33 | -0.2 |
| 7 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.3.2% · e.g. Tapad | 3.2% | 25 | -1.0 |
| 8 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.1% · e.g. Wealthfront | 3.1% | 24 | -0.2 |
| 9 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.3.1% · e.g. Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services | 3.1% | 24 | +2.0 |
| 10 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.3% · e.g. Blockchain Project | 2.3% | 18 | +0.9 |
| 11 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.1.9% · e.g. Quora | 1.9% | 15 | +1.0 |
| 12 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.4% · e.g. Zendesk | 1.4% | 11 | +0.6 |
| 13 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.90% · an example posting | 0.90% | 7 | +0.4 |
| 14 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.90% · e.g. Wag Labs, Inc. | 0.90% | 7 | -0.2 |
| 15 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.90% · e.g. Sourceress | 0.90% | 7 | +0.1 |
| 16 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.80% · e.g. OSARO INC | 0.80% | 6 | +0.3 |
| 17 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.80% · e.g. Chimp Technology | 0.80% | 6 | +0.3 |
| 18 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.60% · e.g. StackShare | 0.60% | 5 | +0.0 |
| 19 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.60% · e.g. LoadDocs | 0.60% | 5 | +0.1 |
| 20 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.50% · e.g. Bowery Farming | 0.50% | 4 | -0.3 |
| 21 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.50% · e.g. Zapier | 0.50% | 4 | +0.2 |
| 22 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.50% · e.g. Squarespace | 0.50% | 4 | -0.3 |
| 23 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.40% · e.g. OnSpecta | 0.40% | 3 | -0.1 |
| 24 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.30% · e.g. Depop | 0.30% | 2 | -0.6 |
| 25 | Member of Technical StaffA deliberately flat title from Bell Labs, revived by AI labs for engineers and researchers alike.0.10% · e.g. Apprente | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 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 | 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% · an example posting | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 28 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.10% · e.g. HelloSugoi | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 29 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.10% · e.g. Transfix | 0.10% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 30 | Applied AI EngineerTurns frontier models into working products for specific customers or use cases.0.10% · e.g. Bonsai AI | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 31 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.10% · e.g. Bonsai AI | 0.10% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 32 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.10% · an example posting | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |