Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, March 2018
863 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 30 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. Contract Simply | 16% | 140 | +0.7 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.8.3% · e.g. Instabridge | 8.3% | 72 | +3.2 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.7.1% · e.g. GitLab | 7.1% | 61 | +1.2 |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.0% · e.g. Instabridge | 5.0% | 43 | -1.0 |
| 5 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.4% · e.g. Instabridge | 4.4% | 38 | -0.2 |
| 6 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.4% · e.g. Poki - | 4.4% | 38 | +0.1 |
| 7 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.3.9% · e.g. Tapad | 3.9% | 34 | +0.2 |
| 8 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.5% · e.g. Gaming Realms | 3.5% | 30 | +0.6 |
| 9 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.3.2% · e.g. Compass | 3.2% | 28 | +1.9 |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.8% · e.g. Asimov | 2.8% | 24 | +1.9 |
| 11 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.9% · e.g. Centosette | 1.9% | 16 | +0.6 |
| 12 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.7% · e.g. Tapad | 1.7% | 15 | +0.6 |
| 13 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.6% · an example posting | 1.6% | 14 | +0.2 |
| 14 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.0% · e.g. Butterfly Network | 1.0% | 9 | -0.4 |
| 15 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.90% · e.g. Outschool | 0.90% | 8 | +0.3 |
| 16 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.80% · e.g. Blue Vision Labs | 0.80% | 7 | +0.4 |
| 17 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.80% · e.g. 10x Genomics | 0.80% | 7 | +0.4 |
| 18 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.70% · e.g. Teachable | 0.70% | 6 | +0.6 |
| 19 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.50% · e.g. Occipital | 0.50% | 4 | +0.1 |
| 20 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.30% · e.g. BOSTON MA | 0.30% | 3 | -0.1 |
| 21 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.30% · e.g. Diginex | 0.30% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 22 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.20% · e.g. Intercom | 0.20% | 2 | -0.6 |
| 23 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.20% · e.g. Stash Invest | 0.20% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 24 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.20% · e.g. Alpine.ai | 0.20% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 25 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.20% · e.g. Pusher | 0.20% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 26 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.10% · e.g. Atrium LTS | 0.10% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 27 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.10% · e.g. Pivotal | 0.10% | 1 | -0.4 |
| 28 | AI Product ManagerA product manager for model-powered products, fluent in evals and model behaviour.0.10% · e.g. Capital One | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 29 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.10% · an example posting | 0.10% | 1 | -0.4 |
| 30 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.10% · e.g. Spoke | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |