Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, June 2018
760 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 29 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 20% 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.20% · e.g. Costco Travel | 20% | 151 | +6.1 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.7.8% · e.g. Q-Branch Labs | 7.8% | 59 | +1.6 |
| 3 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.9% · e.g. Petuum | 5.9% | 45 | -0.8 |
| 4 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.0% · e.g. Relayr | 5.0% | 38 | +2.0 |
| 5 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.9% · e.g. Lendable | 4.9% | 37 | +0.1 |
| 6 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.4.9% · e.g. Gambit Research Ltd | 4.9% | 37 | +0.9 |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.4.9% · e.g. Gambit Research Ltd | 4.9% | 37 | +2.7 |
| 8 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.4.2% · e.g. Entelo | 4.2% | 32 | -2.0 |
| 9 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.3.2% · e.g. Entelo | 3.2% | 24 | +0.3 |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.9% · e.g. CRITEO | 2.9% | 22 | +0.8 |
| 11 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.6% · e.g. Smarkets | 1.6% | 12 | +0.6 |
| 12 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.1.3% · e.g. Burlington Area Vermont | 1.3% | 10 | +0.3 |
| 13 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.3% · an example posting | 1.3% | 10 | +0.2 |
| 14 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.1% · e.g. Smarkets | 1.1% | 8 | -0.1 |
| 15 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.90% · e.g. Datawallet | 0.90% | 7 | +0.8 |
| 16 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.0.90% · e.g. Mark43 | 0.90% | 7 | -0.5 |
| 17 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.70% · e.g. Recursion Pharmaceuticals | 0.70% | 5 | -0.1 |
| 18 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.40% · e.g. Entelo | 0.40% | 3 | -0.1 |
| 19 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.40% · e.g. Occipital | 0.40% | 3 | +0.0 |
| 20 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.40% · e.g. Typeform | 0.40% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 21 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.30% · e.g. Tapad | 0.30% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 22 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.30% · e.g. Relayr | 0.30% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 23 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.30% · e.g. PolySign | 0.30% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 24 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.30% · e.g. Dot Technology Corp. | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 25 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. Rover | 0.30% | 2 | -0.4 |
| 26 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.10% · e.g. Notable | 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 | +0.1 |
| 28 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.10% · e.g. SigOpt | 0.10% | 1 | -1.0 |
| 29 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.10% · e.g. Documents Classification | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |