Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, July 2018
733 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. Checkr | 16% | 120 | +2.0 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.7.2% · e.g. Chronomics | 7.2% | 53 | +0.7 |
| 3 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.9% · e.g. Chronomics | 5.9% | 43 | +2.3 |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.7% · e.g. DataCamp | 5.7% | 42 | +0.5 |
| 5 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.5.6% · e.g. GitLab | 5.6% | 41 | -0.5 |
| 6 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.5.6% · e.g. Lendable | 5.6% | 41 | +1.6 |
| 7 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.5.2% · e.g. GitLab | 5.2% | 38 | +0.8 |
| 8 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.7% · e.g. ToolSense | 3.7% | 27 | +2.0 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.3% · e.g. PathAI | 3.3% | 24 | +1.3 |
| 10 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.2.9% · e.g. Checkr | 2.9% | 21 | +1.4 |
| 11 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.9% · e.g. Commure, Inc. | 1.9% | 14 | +1.0 |
| 12 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.6% · e.g. Pivotal | 1.6% | 12 | +0.7 |
| 13 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.1.4% · e.g. Hustle | 1.4% | 10 | +0.9 |
| 14 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.1% · e.g. Recursion Pharmaceuticals | 1.1% | 8 | +0.4 |
| 15 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.0% · e.g. GetYourGuide | 1.0% | 7 | -0.5 |
| 16 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.1.0% · e.g. Interdax | 1.0% | 7 | +0.7 |
| 17 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.80% · an example posting | 0.80% | 6 | +0.0 |
| 18 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.80% · e.g. Hoopy | 0.80% | 6 | +0.3 |
| 19 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.70% · e.g. PathAI | 0.70% | 5 | +0.0 |
| 20 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.70% · e.g. Xwing | 0.70% | 5 | -0.2 |
| 21 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.50% · e.g. OneFi | 0.50% | 4 | +0.2 |
| 22 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.40% · e.g. Pivotal | 0.40% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 23 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.40% · e.g. ClearBrain | 0.40% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 24 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.30% · e.g. Tapad | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 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. Senior Big Data Developer | 0.30% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 26 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. Green Bits | 0.30% | 2 | -0.4 |
| 27 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.30% · e.g. Aquabyte | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 28 | 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. Maersk Digital | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 29 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.10% · e.g. Selerity | 0.10% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 30 | AI Deployment EngineerDeploys and tunes an AI product or agent inside a customer's stack; a close cousin of the forward deployed engineer.0.10% · e.g. STRIVR | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |