Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, October 2017
881 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 29 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 15% 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.15% · e.g. Alva Technologies | 15% | 131 | +1.1 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.7.5% · e.g. Takt | 7.5% | 66 | +2.8 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.6.1% · e.g. Takt | 6.1% | 54 | +1.5 |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.4.5% · e.g. Teachable | 4.5% | 40 | +0.3 |
| 5 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.4% · e.g. Takt | 4.4% | 39 | -0.3 |
| 6 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.3.5% · e.g. Tulip | 3.5% | 31 | +0.4 |
| 7 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.0% · e.g. Wag Labs, Inc. | 3.0% | 26 | -1.3 |
| 8 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.6% · e.g. Jellyfish | 2.6% | 23 | +1.5 |
| 9 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.2.5% · e.g. Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services | 2.5% | 22 | +0.6 |
| 10 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.4% · e.g. Wealthfront | 2.4% | 21 | -0.4 |
| 11 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.6% · e.g. Braintree | 1.6% | 14 | -0.6 |
| 12 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.4% · e.g. Cambridge Intelligence | 1.4% | 12 | +0.0 |
| 13 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.0% · e.g. Kontena, Inc. | 1.0% | 9 | +0.6 |
| 14 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.90% · e.g. Blue Vision Labs | 0.90% | 8 | +0.5 |
| 15 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.90% · an example posting | 0.90% | 8 | +0.3 |
| 16 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.80% · e.g. Cleary | 0.80% | 7 | +0.4 |
| 17 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.80% · e.g. Hustle | 0.80% | 7 | +0.4 |
| 18 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.70% · e.g. Cleary | 0.70% | 6 | +0.4 |
| 19 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.60% · e.g. Blue Vision Labs | 0.60% | 5 | +0.1 |
| 20 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.60% · e.g. Occipital | 0.60% | 5 | +0.1 |
| 21 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 4 | +0.2 |
| 22 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.30% · e.g. Blockchain Trading Platform | 0.30% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 23 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.30% · e.g. Flexport | 0.30% | 3 | -0.2 |
| 24 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. Holidu | 0.30% | 3 | +0.0 |
| 25 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.30% · e.g. OSARO INC | 0.30% | 3 | -0.2 |
| 26 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.20% · e.g. Spoke | 0.20% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 27 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.10% · e.g. Kobalt Music | 0.10% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 28 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.10% · e.g. Tronc | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 29 | 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 |