Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, February 2019
691 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 32 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 15% 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.15% · e.g. Butterfly Network | 15% | 105 | -1.7 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.8.5% · e.g. GitLab | 8.5% | 59 | +2.4 |
| 3 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.6.9% · e.g. Lendable | 6.9% | 48 | -0.6 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.6.8% · e.g. Lateral | 6.8% | 47 | +2.2 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.6.4% · e.g. TXN | 6.4% | 44 | +1.7 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.4% · e.g. re-lounge | 5.4% | 37 | +1.6 |
| 7 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.5.1% · e.g. PathAI | 5.1% | 35 | +1.7 |
| 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% | 28 | +0.3 |
| 9 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.9% · e.g. JustWatch | 3.9% | 27 | +0.8 |
| 10 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.9% · e.g. Convertelligence | 3.9% | 27 | +0.7 |
| 11 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.2.0% · e.g. Braze | 2.0% | 14 | +1.4 |
| 12 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.9% · e.g. Commure, Inc. | 1.9% | 13 | +0.6 |
| 13 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.7% · e.g. CurrencyFair | 1.7% | 12 | -0.2 |
| 14 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.6% · e.g. Relayr | 1.6% | 11 | +0.5 |
| 15 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.0% · e.g. Recursion Pharmaceuticals | 1.0% | 7 | +0.0 |
| 16 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.90% · e.g. Smartcar | 0.90% | 6 | +0.5 |
| 17 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.70% · e.g. Tapad | 0.70% | 5 | -0.2 |
| 18 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.70% · e.g. Senior Backend Engineer | 0.70% | 5 | -0.2 |
| 19 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.70% · e.g. CrazyGames | 0.70% | 5 | +0.3 |
| 20 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.40% · e.g. PathAI | 0.40% | 3 | +0.1 |
| 21 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.40% · e.g. Butterfly Network | 0.40% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.30% · e.g. Tapad | 0.30% | 2 | -0.3 |
| 24 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.30% · e.g. Senior Backend Engineer | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 25 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.30% · e.g. Textio | 0.30% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 26 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.30% · e.g. Bloomberg LP | 0.30% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 27 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.30% · e.g. Graphcore | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 28 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.10% · e.g. Bloomberg LP | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 29 | AI Product ManagerA product manager for model-powered products, fluent in evals and model behaviour.0.10% · e.g. AppZen | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 30 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.10% · an example posting | 0.10% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 31 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.10% · e.g. still-unnamed startup in stealth mode> | 0.10% | 1 | -0.3 |
| 32 | Agent EngineerBuilds LLM agents that plan and call tools, and the harnesses that keep them reliable.0.10% · e.g. tCell/Rapid7 | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |