Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, April 2018
839 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. Aivan Innovations | 17% | 145 | +1.0 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.6.9% · e.g. ThriveHive | 6.9% | 58 | -0.3 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.6.7% · e.g. GitLab | 6.7% | 56 | +1.3 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.5.1% · e.g. Phone2Action | 5.1% | 43 | -0.1 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.4.3% · e.g. Tanium | 4.3% | 36 | +0.1 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.1% · e.g. boomla.com | 4.1% | 34 | -0.5 |
| 7 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.4.1% · e.g. Tulip | 4.1% | 34 | +1.1 |
| 8 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.4.1% · e.g. Segment | 4.1% | 34 | +2.6 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.9% · e.g. Second Measure | 3.9% | 33 | +0.7 |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.7% · e.g. Aivan Innovations | 2.7% | 23 | +1.2 |
| 11 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.1.7% · e.g. Samsung Drvline | 1.7% | 14 | +0.4 |
| 12 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.3% · e.g. Tanium | 1.3% | 11 | +0.0 |
| 13 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.3% · e.g. Tanium | 1.3% | 11 | +0.6 |
| 14 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.2% · e.g. Facebook | 1.2% | 10 | -0.2 |
| 15 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.1.1% · e.g. Samsung Drvline | 1.1% | 9 | +0.8 |
| 16 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.0% · e.g. Preferred Networks | 1.0% | 8 | +0.2 |
| 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 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.70% · e.g. Jobcase | 0.70% | 6 | -0.3 |
| 19 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.60% · e.g. Teachable | 0.60% | 5 | +0.3 |
| 20 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.60% · an example posting | 0.60% | 5 | +0.3 |
| 21 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 4 | +0.1 |
| 22 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.50% · e.g. Spoke | 0.50% | 4 | +0.5 |
| 23 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.40% · e.g. Stacktical | 0.40% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 24 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.40% · e.g. Atrium LTS | 0.40% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 25 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.20% · e.g. Dishcraft Robotics | 0.20% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 26 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.20% · e.g. Relayr | 0.20% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 27 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.10% · e.g. New York, New York | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 28 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.10% · e.g. ResearchGate | 0.10% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 29 | 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 |