Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, December 2017
773 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 32 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 16% 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.16% · e.g. Warby Parker | 16% | 124 | +0.5 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.7.9% · e.g. Tapad | 7.9% | 61 | +2.7 |
| 3 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.8% · an example posting | 5.8% | 45 | +0.4 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.5.3% · e.g. EDITED | 5.3% | 41 | +0.6 |
| 5 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.4.3% · e.g. GitLab | 4.3% | 33 | -1.4 |
| 6 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.3.5% · e.g. Tapad | 3.5% | 27 | +0.5 |
| 7 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.5% · e.g. Booking.com | 3.5% | 27 | -1.1 |
| 8 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.3.1% · e.g. CyberArk | 3.1% | 24 | +0.9 |
| 9 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.8% · e.g. Bayesian Health | 2.8% | 22 | +1.2 |
| 10 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.3% · e.g. Bayesian Health | 2.3% | 18 | +0.1 |
| 11 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.2.1% · e.g. Tapad | 2.1% | 16 | +0.5 |
| 12 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.2% · e.g. Blue Vision Labs | 1.2% | 9 | +0.3 |
| 13 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.0% · e.g. Braintree | 1.0% | 8 | -0.3 |
| 14 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.0% · e.g. Wallaroo Labs | 1.0% | 8 | +0.8 |
| 15 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.90% · e.g. Blue Vision Labs | 0.90% | 7 | +0.4 |
| 16 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.90% · e.g. ============== | 0.90% | 7 | -0.4 |
| 17 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.80% · e.g. Warby Parker | 0.80% | 6 | +0.2 |
| 18 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.80% · e.g. Teachable | 0.80% | 6 | +0.5 |
| 19 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.80% · e.g. Intercom | 0.80% | 6 | +0.6 |
| 20 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.60% · e.g. Xactly | 0.60% | 5 | -0.2 |
| 21 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.50% · e.g. Digitas | 0.50% | 4 | +0.3 |
| 22 | 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 | +0.2 |
| 23 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.40% · e.g. OSARO INC | 0.40% | 3 | +0.2 |
| 24 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. Warby Parker | 0.30% | 2 | -0.3 |
| 25 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.30% · e.g. Bonsai AI | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 26 | 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. GoodRx | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 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.0.30% · e.g. Hivemapper | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.10% · e.g. SpotHero | 0.10% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 30 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.10% · e.g. DMAI, Inc. | 0.10% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 31 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.10% · e.g. Hivemapper | 0.10% | 1 | -0.4 |
| 32 | Member of Technical StaffA deliberately flat title from Bell Labs, revived by AI labs for engineers and researchers alike.0.10% · e.g. athenahealth | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |