Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, September 2018
689 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 31 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 18% 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.18% · e.g. MIT Quest for Intelligence | 18% | 121 | +0.8 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.5.7% · e.g. Smart Host | 5.7% | 39 | -0.1 |
| 3 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.4% · e.g. Van Oord | 5.4% | 37 | +1.2 |
| 4 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.4.9% · e.g. Interdax | 4.9% | 34 | +1.7 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.4.6% · e.g. Netlify | 4.6% | 32 | -0.4 |
| 6 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.4% · e.g. ODYN | 4.4% | 30 | +0.0 |
| 7 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.4.1% · e.g. HelloFresh | 4.1% | 28 | -3.1 |
| 8 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.3% · e.g. HelloFresh | 3.3% | 23 | +1.4 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.8% · e.g. LendKey | 2.8% | 19 | -0.3 |
| 10 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.2.6% · e.g. Etsy | 2.6% | 18 | -0.5 |
| 11 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.7% · e.g. Interdax | 1.7% | 12 | -0.6 |
| 12 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.1.6% · e.g. Fracta | 1.6% | 11 | +1.3 |
| 13 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.5% · e.g. Pure Labs | 1.5% | 10 | +1.0 |
| 14 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.3% · e.g. Keen IO | 1.3% | 9 | -0.1 |
| 15 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.90% · e.g. Facet | 0.90% | 6 | +0.0 |
| 16 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.90% · e.g. Paxton Access | 0.90% | 6 | +0.4 |
| 17 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.70% · e.g. Starsky Robotics | 0.70% | 5 | +0.2 |
| 18 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.70% · e.g. Lime | 0.70% | 5 | -0.2 |
| 19 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.70% · e.g. Truebill | 0.70% | 5 | +0.6 |
| 20 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.60% · e.g. Facet | 0.60% | 4 | +0.0 |
| 21 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.40% · e.g. Instalocate.com | 0.40% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 22 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.40% · e.g. Elastic | 0.40% | 3 | -0.2 |
| 23 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.30% · e.g. SQream | 0.30% | 2 | -0.6 |
| 24 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. Say | 0.30% | 2 | -0.5 |
| 25 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.30% · e.g. Determined AI | 0.30% | 2 | -0.5 |
| 26 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.30% · e.g. Fueled | 0.30% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 27 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.10% · e.g. MIT Quest for Intelligence | 0.10% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 28 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.10% · e.g. Blue Vision Labs | 0.10% | 1 | -0.3 |
| 29 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.10% · an example posting | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 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 |
| 31 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.10% · e.g. Oakam | 0.10% | 1 | +0.0 |