Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, June 2019
660 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 30 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. Recursion Pharmaceuticals | 17% | 111 | -3.1 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.7.0% · an example posting | 7.0% | 46 | +1.1 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.6.5% · e.g. Pluralsight | 6.5% | 43 | -1.3 |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.9% · e.g. IOMED | 5.9% | 39 | +1.7 |
| 5 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.5% · e.g. Mixlr | 5.5% | 36 | +0.5 |
| 6 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.5.0% · e.g. Stash Invest | 5.0% | 33 | +1.8 |
| 7 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.7% · e.g. Relayr | 4.7% | 31 | -0.2 |
| 8 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.3.8% · e.g. implesurance GmbH | 3.8% | 25 | -1.1 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.6% · an example posting | 3.6% | 24 | -1.3 |
| 10 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.3.0% · e.g. Pluralsight | 3.0% | 20 | +1.9 |
| 11 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.7% · e.g. Recursion Pharmaceuticals | 2.7% | 18 | -0.2 |
| 12 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.2.7% · e.g. Tapad | 2.7% | 18 | +1.8 |
| 13 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.1.4% · e.g. Komodo Health | 1.4% | 9 | +0.1 |
| 14 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.2% · e.g. Curology | 1.2% | 8 | -0.4 |
| 15 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.1% · e.g. Smartcar API | 1.1% | 7 | +0.7 |
| 16 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.90% · e.g. Privacy.com | 0.90% | 6 | -0.4 |
| 17 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.90% · e.g. Blockstack | 0.90% | 6 | +0.6 |
| 18 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.80% · e.g. Recursion Pharmaceuticals | 0.80% | 5 | +0.1 |
| 19 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.50% · e.g. PathAI | 0.50% | 3 | +0.1 |
| 20 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.50% · e.g. CrazyGames | 0.50% | 3 | +0.2 |
| 21 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.50% · e.g. WellSaid Labs | 0.50% | 3 | +0.2 |
| 22 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.30% · e.g. navenio | 0.30% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 23 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.30% · e.g. Cleary | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 24 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.30% · e.g. The Trade Desk | 0.30% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 25 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.30% · e.g. Quora | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 26 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.30% · e.g. Squarespace | 0.30% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 27 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.20% · e.g. [still-unnamed startup in stealth mode] | 0.20% | 1 | -0.7 |
| 28 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.20% · e.g. Komodo Health | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 29 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.20% · e.g. Graphcore | 0.20% | 1 | +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.0.20% · e.g. STRIIM | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |