Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, May 2018
971 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 28 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. Krzana | 16% | 156 | -1.5 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.7.1% · e.g. Petuum | 7.1% | 69 | +0.9 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.6.9% · e.g. GitLab | 6.9% | 67 | +1.5 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.5.3% · e.g. EDITED | 5.3% | 51 | +1.2 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.4.9% · e.g. Tanium | 4.9% | 48 | +0.1 |
| 6 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.4.4% · e.g. SpotHero | 4.4% | 43 | +2.2 |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.4.2% · e.g. Dark | 4.2% | 41 | +1.3 |
| 8 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.0% · an example posting | 4.0% | 39 | -1.3 |
| 9 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.3.6% · e.g. Tulip | 3.6% | 35 | +1.1 |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.6% · e.g. Pocket | 2.6% | 25 | +0.7 |
| 11 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.1.5% · e.g. SpotHero | 1.5% | 15 | +0.3 |
| 12 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.4% · e.g. Software Engineer / Data Scientist | 1.4% | 14 | +0.3 |
| 13 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.3% · an example posting | 1.3% | 13 | +0.5 |
| 14 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.2% · e.g. Tanium | 1.2% | 12 | +0.0 |
| 15 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.1% · e.g. Blue Vision Labs | 1.1% | 11 | -0.1 |
| 16 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.0% · e.g. Replicated | 1.0% | 10 | -0.2 |
| 17 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.60% · e.g. PathAI | 0.60% | 6 | +0.1 |
| 18 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.50% · e.g. Blue Vision Labs | 0.50% | 5 | -0.1 |
| 19 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.50% · e.g. Tapad | 0.50% | 5 | -0.1 |
| 20 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.50% · e.g. Slice | 0.50% | 5 | -0.5 |
| 21 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.40% · e.g. Entelo | 0.40% | 4 | +0.3 |
| 22 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.40% · e.g. Warby Parker | 0.40% | 4 | -0.1 |
| 23 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.30% · e.g. Aquabyte | 0.30% | 3 | -0.3 |
| 24 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.30% · e.g. LBRY | 0.30% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 25 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.30% · e.g. Pusher | 0.30% | 3 | +0.2 |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.10% · e.g. Stride.AI | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 28 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.10% · e.g. Clumio | 0.10% | 1 | -0.1 |