Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, January 2018
663 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 27 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. Polly | 17% | 111 | +0.4 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.8.0% · e.g. EDITED | 8.0% | 53 | +1.0 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.5.7% · e.g. GitLab | 5.7% | 38 | +0.3 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.5.6% · e.g. EDITED | 5.6% | 37 | +0.7 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.6% · e.g. Entelo | 5.6% | 37 | +1.4 |
| 6 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.3.8% · e.g. Handy | 3.8% | 25 | +2.2 |
| 7 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.0% · e.g. Wag Labs, Inc. | 3.0% | 20 | +0.2 |
| 8 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.2.9% · e.g. Betterment | 2.9% | 19 | +0.5 |
| 9 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.3% · e.g. Connected Lab | 2.3% | 15 | +0.7 |
| 10 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.1.8% · e.g. Entelo | 1.8% | 12 | -1.0 |
| 11 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.2% · e.g. Lyft | 1.2% | 8 | -0.6 |
| 12 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.1% · e.g. Pivotal | 1.1% | 7 | -0.2 |
| 13 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.1% · e.g. Sentenai | 1.1% | 7 | +0.4 |
| 14 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.1% · e.g. Brain Corp | 1.1% | 7 | -0.9 |
| 15 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.60% · e.g. Entelo | 0.60% | 4 | +0.3 |
| 16 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.60% · e.g. Stylindex | 0.60% | 4 | +0.3 |
| 17 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.60% · e.g. OnSpecta | 0.60% | 4 | -0.2 |
| 18 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.60% · e.g. Captain401 | 0.60% | 4 | +0.1 |
| 19 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.50% · e.g. ChronoLogic | 0.50% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 20 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.50% · e.g. Pusher | 0.50% | 3 | +0.0 |
| 21 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.30% · e.g. Intercom | 0.30% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 22 | 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. BitMEX: Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 23 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 24 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.20% · e.g. Tape | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 25 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.20% · e.g. Ubiquiti Networks | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 26 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.20% · e.g. Spoke | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 27 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.20% · e.g. ZipRecruiter | 0.20% | 1 | -0.6 |