Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, February 2018
786 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 29 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. Alpine.ai | 17% | 133 | +0.3 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.7.5% · e.g. BOOKING.COM | 7.5% | 59 | +2.6 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.6.1% · e.g. GitLab | 6.1% | 48 | +0.7 |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.4.7% · e.g. Viasat | 4.7% | 37 | -0.7 |
| 5 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.6% · e.g. Gambit Research Ltd | 4.6% | 36 | -0.5 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.8% · e.g. Wag Labs, Inc. | 3.8% | 30 | +0.4 |
| 7 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.3.8% · e.g. Tapad | 3.8% | 30 | +1.5 |
| 8 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.3.4% · e.g. ONSITE | 3.4% | 27 | +1.7 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.2% · e.g. Expensify | 3.2% | 25 | +0.5 |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.1% · e.g. Asimov | 3.1% | 24 | +0.9 |
| 11 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.9% · e.g. GigNow | 1.9% | 15 | +0.6 |
| 12 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.3% · e.g. Braintree | 1.3% | 10 | -0.4 |
| 13 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.1% · e.g. Pivotal | 1.1% | 9 | -0.3 |
| 14 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.0% · e.g. Blue Vision Labs | 1.0% | 8 | +0.0 |
| 15 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.90% · e.g. Intercom | 0.90% | 7 | +0.2 |
| 16 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.90% · e.g. Elastic | 0.90% | 7 | +0.7 |
| 17 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.60% · e.g. Entelo | 0.60% | 5 | +0.4 |
| 18 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.60% · e.g. PagerDuty | 0.60% | 5 | +0.2 |
| 19 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.50% · e.g. Blue Vision Labs | 0.50% | 4 | +0.0 |
| 20 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.40% · e.g. nammu21 | 0.40% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 21 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.40% · e.g. SwiftDemand | 0.40% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 22 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 3 | +0.2 |
| 23 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.40% · e.g. StackShare | 0.40% | 3 | -0.6 |
| 24 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.30% · e.g. Occipital | 0.30% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 25 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.30% · e.g. 2K Games | 0.30% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 26 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.10% · e.g. Alpine.ai | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 27 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.10% · e.g. Caper | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 28 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.10% · an example posting | 0.10% | 1 | -0.3 |
| 29 | 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% · e.g. ActionIQ | 0.10% | 1 | +0.0 |