Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, November 2017
902 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 31 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. Phone2Action | 17% | 150 | -1.0 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.9.0% · e.g. Takt | 9.0% | 81 | +1.6 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.6.9% · e.g. Takt | 6.9% | 62 | +0.8 |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.1% · e.g. Instacart | 5.1% | 46 | +0.2 |
| 5 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.5.0% · e.g. Takt | 5.0% | 45 | -0.3 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.4% · e.g. Much Better Adventures | 4.4% | 40 | +0.7 |
| 7 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.4.0% · e.g. Thinknum | 4.0% | 36 | +1.4 |
| 8 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.9% · e.g. Instacart | 2.9% | 26 | +1.5 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.5% · e.g. Entelo | 2.5% | 23 | -0.5 |
| 10 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.2.2% · e.g. Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services | 2.2% | 20 | -0.2 |
| 11 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.8% · e.g. Quobyte | 1.8% | 16 | +0.0 |
| 12 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.6% · e.g. Entelo | 1.6% | 14 | +0.4 |
| 13 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.4% · e.g. Braintree | 1.4% | 13 | +0.0 |
| 14 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.1.0% · e.g. Allbirds | 1.0% | 9 | +0.3 |
| 15 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.90% · e.g. Cogent Labs | 0.90% | 8 | +0.5 |
| 16 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.80% · e.g. Human API | 0.80% | 7 | +0.1 |
| 17 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.70% · e.g. Teachable | 0.70% | 6 | +0.7 |
| 18 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.70% · e.g. Doist | 0.70% | 6 | +0.2 |
| 19 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.60% · e.g. Blue Vision Labs | 0.60% | 5 | +0.2 |
| 20 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.40% · e.g. Bonsai AI | 0.40% | 4 | +0.4 |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.30% · e.g. Instalocate.com | 0.30% | 3 | +0.1 |
| 23 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. Warby Parker | 0.30% | 3 | +0.1 |
| 24 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.30% · e.g. Shape | 0.30% | 3 | -0.4 |
| 25 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.20% · e.g. Blockchain Trading Platform | 0.20% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 26 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 27 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.20% · e.g. Mercury | 0.20% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 28 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.20% · e.g. Intercom | 0.20% | 2 | -0.5 |
| 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 |
| 30 | Member of Technical StaffA deliberately flat title from Bell Labs, revived by AI labs for engineers and researchers alike.0.10% · e.g. Armorblox | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 31 | Legal EngineerA lawyer who builds: turns legal workflows into prompts, evals and product for legal AI tools.0.10% · e.g. Ironclad | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |