Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, May 2019
816 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 33 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 16% 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.16% · e.g. Qwilr | 16% | 130 | -0.2 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.8.0% · an example posting | 8.0% | 65 | +0.9 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.7.7% · e.g. GitLab | 7.7% | 63 | +0.8 |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.7.2% · e.g. Vigilant Web | 7.2% | 59 | +2.3 |
| 5 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.6.3% · e.g. Aha! | 6.3% | 51 | +1.0 |
| 6 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.5.4% · e.g. GitLab | 5.4% | 44 | +1.0 |
| 7 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.9% · e.g. Poki - | 4.9% | 40 | +0.9 |
| 8 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.4.4% · e.g. United States Digital Service | 4.4% | 36 | +0.8 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.4.3% · an example posting | 4.3% | 35 | +0.1 |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.8% · e.g. Recursion Pharmaceuticals | 3.8% | 31 | +1.2 |
| 11 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.1% · e.g. GitLab | 2.1% | 17 | +0.9 |
| 12 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.2.0% · e.g. GitLab | 2.0% | 16 | +1.0 |
| 13 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.1.6% · e.g. Localytics | 1.6% | 13 | +0.1 |
| 14 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.2% · e.g. Forestry.io | 1.2% | 10 | +0.9 |
| 15 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.1% · e.g. Red Ventures | 1.1% | 9 | -0.3 |
| 16 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.90% · e.g. Greensea Systems | 0.90% | 7 | +0.4 |
| 17 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.70% · e.g. CB Insights | 0.70% | 6 | +0.3 |
| 18 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.60% · an example posting | 0.60% | 5 | -0.7 |
| 19 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.60% · e.g. Passenger AI | 0.60% | 5 | +0.0 |
| 20 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.60% · e.g. Soda Labs | 0.60% | 5 | +0.5 |
| 21 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.50% · e.g. Recursion Pharmaceuticals | 0.50% | 4 | -0.6 |
| 22 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.50% · e.g. Tapad | 0.50% | 4 | +0.1 |
| 23 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.50% · e.g. Vernacular.ai | 0.50% | 4 | +0.0 |
| 24 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.50% · e.g. Aquabyte | 0.50% | 4 | +0.2 |
| 25 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.40% · e.g. Vigilant Web | 0.40% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 26 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.40% · e.g. Tact.AI | 0.40% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 27 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.20% · e.g. Tubi TV | 0.20% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 28 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.20% · e.g. Quora | 0.20% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 29 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.20% · e.g. Nammu 21 | 0.20% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 30 | 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. STRIIM | 0.10% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 31 | 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. Komodo Health | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 32 | Chief Data OfficerThe executive who owns data governance, quality and analytics.0.10% · e.g. Presidential Innovation Fellows | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 33 | 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 | -0.2 |