Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, January 2019
764 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 28 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. Fullstack.io | 17% | 131 | +0.4 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.6.8% · e.g. THORN | 6.8% | 52 | -1.2 |
| 3 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.6.7% · e.g. THORN | 6.7% | 51 | +1.1 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.6.5% · e.g. Gambit Research Ltd | 6.5% | 50 | +0.9 |
| 5 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.6.2% · e.g. GitLab | 6.2% | 47 | +0.5 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.2% · e.g. New Knowledge | 5.2% | 40 | +2.2 |
| 7 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.4.5% · e.g. Gambit Research Ltd | 4.5% | 34 | +1.6 |
| 8 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.3.8% · e.g. Workday | 3.8% | 29 | +0.0 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.1% · e.g. BuzzSumo | 3.1% | 24 | +1.3 |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.1% · e.g. New Knowledge | 3.1% | 24 | +0.8 |
| 11 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.0% · e.g. Commure, Inc. | 2.0% | 15 | +0.9 |
| 12 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.1.8% · e.g. DataKitchen | 1.8% | 14 | +1.2 |
| 13 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.8% · e.g. Crown Equipment Corporation | 1.8% | 14 | +0.7 |
| 14 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.6% · e.g. Gecko Robotics | 1.6% | 12 | +0.4 |
| 15 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.90% · e.g. Tapad | 0.90% | 7 | +0.3 |
| 16 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.90% · e.g. PlanetScale | 0.90% | 7 | +0.4 |
| 17 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.90% · an example posting | 0.90% | 7 | +0.6 |
| 18 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.80% · e.g. Tapad | 0.80% | 6 | +0.2 |
| 19 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.70% · e.g. Recursion Pharmaceuticals | 0.70% | 5 | -0.4 |
| 20 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.50% · e.g. BotsAndUs | 0.50% | 4 | +0.5 |
| 21 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.50% · e.g. Fishi Robotics | 0.50% | 4 | +0.3 |
| 22 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.50% · e.g. Alpha | 0.50% | 4 | +0.5 |
| 23 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.40% · e.g. Aquabyte | 0.40% | 3 | +0.1 |
| 24 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.40% · e.g. Tapad | 0.40% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 25 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.40% · e.g. <still-unnamed startup in stealth mode> | 0.40% | 3 | -0.1 |
| 26 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.30% · e.g. Graphcore | 0.30% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 27 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.30% · e.g. Vigilant Web | 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 2019.0.10% · e.g. Sysco LABS | 0.10% | 1 | -0.2 |