Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, August 2018
866 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. Rheidiant | 17% | 151 | +3.1 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.6.7% · e.g. GitLab | 6.7% | 58 | +1.3 |
| 3 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.6.2% · e.g. eBay | 6.2% | 54 | -1.0 |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.6.0% · e.g. Engineers Gate | 6.0% | 52 | +0.3 |
| 5 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.5.2% · e.g. GitLab | 5.2% | 45 | +2.8 |
| 6 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.5.2% · e.g. Hustle | 5.2% | 45 | +0.1 |
| 7 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.8% · e.g. Xledger | 4.8% | 42 | +0.2 |
| 8 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.6% · e.g. Entelo | 3.6% | 31 | +1.1 |
| 9 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.3.0% · e.g. Entelo | 3.0% | 26 | +0.0 |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.9% · an example posting | 2.9% | 25 | +1.0 |
| 11 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.5% · e.g. Commure, Inc. | 2.5% | 22 | +0.8 |
| 12 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.4% · e.g. Blue Vision Labs | 1.4% | 12 | +0.7 |
| 13 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.4% · e.g. Relayr | 1.4% | 12 | -0.3 |
| 14 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.4% · e.g. Strava | 1.4% | 12 | +0.6 |
| 15 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.2% · e.g. Strive Talent | 1.2% | 10 | +0.8 |
| 16 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.1.0% · e.g. Braze | 1.0% | 9 | +0.4 |
| 17 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.1.0% · e.g. Starsky Robotics | 1.0% | 9 | +0.4 |
| 18 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.80% · e.g. Caviar | 0.80% | 7 | +0.4 |
| 19 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.80% · e.g. Tapad | 0.80% | 7 | +0.7 |
| 20 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.70% · e.g. Fact Labs | 0.70% | 6 | +0.6 |
| 21 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.50% · e.g. Interdax | 0.50% | 4 | +0.5 |
| 22 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.50% · e.g. Blue Vision Labs | 0.50% | 4 | -0.5 |
| 23 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.30% · e.g. Buoyant | 0.30% | 3 | +0.0 |
| 24 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.20% · e.g. Helix | 0.20% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 25 | 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.0.20% · e.g. Maersk Digital | 0.20% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 26 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.10% · e.g. Alpha | 0.10% | 1 | -0.3 |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.10% · e.g. Pivotal | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 29 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.10% · e.g. ZipRecruiter | 0.10% | 1 | -0.6 |