Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, October 2018
893 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 34 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. Interesting opportunities | 17% | 148 | +1.7 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.9% · e.g. SpotHero | 5.9% | 53 | -1.6 |
| 3 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.5.6% · e.g. NBC News Digital | 5.6% | 50 | +1.2 |
| 4 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.5.4% · e.g. GitLab | 5.4% | 48 | -0.7 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.0% · e.g. Smarkets | 5.0% | 45 | +0.5 |
| 6 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.4.7% · e.g. GitLab | 4.7% | 42 | +1.2 |
| 7 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.7% · e.g. Interesting opportunities | 3.7% | 33 | +0.7 |
| 8 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.3.2% · e.g. PAXOS | 3.2% | 29 | +0.7 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.9% · an example posting | 2.9% | 26 | +0.5 |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.6% · e.g. Uncountable | 2.6% | 23 | +0.0 |
| 11 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.9% · e.g. Relayr | 1.9% | 17 | +0.5 |
| 12 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.5% · e.g. Commure, Inc. | 1.5% | 13 | -0.1 |
| 13 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.5% · e.g. Recursion Pharmaceuticals | 1.5% | 13 | +0.6 |
| 14 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.0% · an example posting | 1.0% | 9 | +0.2 |
| 15 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.90% · e.g. Blue Vision Labs | 0.90% | 8 | +0.3 |
| 16 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.90% · e.g. Tapad | 0.90% | 8 | +0.1 |
| 17 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.90% · e.g. Drop Technologies Inc | 0.90% | 8 | +0.0 |
| 18 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.60% · e.g. Tapad | 0.60% | 5 | +0.5 |
| 19 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.60% · e.g. Braze | 0.60% | 5 | +0.3 |
| 20 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.60% · e.g. CoinTracker | 0.60% | 5 | -0.1 |
| 21 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.60% · e.g. Omise | 0.60% | 5 | +0.3 |
| 22 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.40% · e.g. Pachyderm --San Francisco -- Onsite only | 0.40% | 4 | -0.6 |
| 23 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.40% · e.g. PathAI | 0.40% | 4 | -0.2 |
| 24 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.30% · e.g. Alpha | 0.30% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 25 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.30% · e.g. Determined AI | 0.30% | 3 | +0.0 |
| 26 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.30% · e.g. Ratesetter.com | 0.30% | 3 | -0.2 |
| 27 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.20% · e.g. Rollbar | 0.20% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 28 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.20% · e.g. Oakam | 0.20% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 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 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 | -0.1 |
| 31 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.10% · e.g. Senior UI Engineer | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 32 | 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 |
| 33 | 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. Splunk | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 34 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.10% · e.g. Blue Prism | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |