Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, December 2018
756 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 33 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. Gecko Robotics | 18% | 135 | +1.9 |
| 2 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.7.4% · e.g. Gambit Research Ltd | 7.4% | 56 | +2.1 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.6.7% · e.g. New Knowledge | 6.7% | 51 | +2.4 |
| 4 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.6.6% · e.g. Validere | 6.6% | 50 | -1.3 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.6.3% · e.g. New Knowledge | 6.3% | 48 | +0.5 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.8% · e.g. New Knowledge | 5.8% | 44 | +2.3 |
| 7 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.4.4% · e.g. Handy | 4.4% | 33 | +1.3 |
| 8 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.4.1% · e.g. Gambit Research Ltd | 4.1% | 31 | +0.6 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.2% · e.g. Pusher | 3.2% | 24 | +0.9 |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.8% · e.g. New Knowledge | 2.8% | 21 | +0.0 |
| 11 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.1.9% · e.g. INTERCOM | 1.9% | 14 | +1.1 |
| 12 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.7% · e.g. PubNub | 1.7% | 13 | -0.4 |
| 13 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.6% · e.g. Commure, Inc. | 1.6% | 12 | +0.6 |
| 14 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.5% · e.g. Gecko Robotics | 1.5% | 11 | +0.6 |
| 15 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.3% · e.g. Amplitude Analytics | 1.3% | 10 | +0.5 |
| 16 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.90% · e.g. Twilio.org | 0.90% | 7 | -0.1 |
| 17 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.80% · e.g. StrideAI | 0.80% | 6 | +0.7 |
| 18 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.70% · e.g. Recursion Pharmaceuticals | 0.70% | 5 | -0.5 |
| 19 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.70% · e.g. Blockstack | 0.70% | 5 | +0.1 |
| 20 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.70% · e.g. PathAI | 0.70% | 5 | +0.6 |
| 21 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.50% · e.g. Sensor Tower | 0.50% | 4 | +0.2 |
| 22 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.40% · e.g. Tapad | 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. EnvKey | 0.40% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 24 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.40% · e.g. Galois | 0.40% | 3 | -0.5 |
| 25 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.30% · e.g. Oakam | 0.30% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 26 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 27 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.30% · e.g. Quora | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 28 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.30% · e.g. ReifyHealth | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 29 | Legal EngineerA lawyer who builds: turns legal workflows into prompts, evals and product for legal AI tools.0.10% · e.g. Ironclad | 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. Graphcore | 0.10% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 31 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.10% · e.g. Aquabyte | 0.10% | 1 | -0.3 |
| 32 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.10% · e.g. Propine Capital | 0.10% | 1 | -0.4 |
| 33 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.10% · e.g. Priori Data | 0.10% | 1 | -0.3 |