Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, July 2019
757 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. ProcedureFlow | 17% | 126 | +0.2 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.7.1% · e.g. GitLab | 7.1% | 54 | +1.5 |
| 3 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.7.1% · e.g. Butterfly Network | 7.1% | 54 | +1.4 |
| 4 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.6.2% · an example posting | 6.2% | 47 | -1.0 |
| 5 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.5.2% · e.g. GitLab | 5.2% | 39 | +2.3 |
| 6 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.6% · e.g. Aha! | 4.6% | 35 | -1.0 |
| 7 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.4.1% · e.g. Tulip | 4.1% | 31 | -1.1 |
| 8 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.0% · e.g. Flow.io | 4.0% | 30 | -1.9 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.2% · an example posting | 3.2% | 24 | -0.1 |
| 10 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.8% · e.g. GitLab | 2.8% | 21 | +0.9 |
| 11 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.8% · e.g. navenio | 2.8% | 21 | -0.9 |
| 12 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.8% · e.g. GitLab | 1.8% | 14 | +0.2 |
| 13 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.1.7% · e.g. Noom | 1.7% | 13 | +0.3 |
| 14 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.3% · e.g. MobilityWare | 1.3% | 10 | +0.3 |
| 15 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.1% · e.g. Smartcar | 1.1% | 8 | +0.3 |
| 16 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.1% · e.g. Big Health | 1.1% | 8 | +0.3 |
| 17 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.90% · e.g. AuptiX Inc. | 0.90% | 7 | -0.2 |
| 18 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.70% · e.g. National Robotics Engineering Center | 0.70% | 5 | +0.0 |
| 19 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.70% · e.g. Arachnys | 0.70% | 5 | +0.4 |
| 20 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.70% · e.g. SRAM | 0.70% | 5 | +0.4 |
| 21 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.50% · e.g. navenio | 0.50% | 4 | -0.2 |
| 22 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.50% · e.g. Middesk | 0.50% | 4 | +0.1 |
| 23 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.40% · e.g. Forge.AI | 0.40% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 24 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.30% · e.g. Samasource | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 25 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.30% · e.g. Geouniq | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 26 | 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.0.30% · e.g. STRIIM | 0.30% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 27 | 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 | -0.9 |
| 28 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.10% · e.g. Resemble AI | 0.10% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 29 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.10% · e.g. Major League Baseball | 0.10% | 1 | -0.4 |
| 30 | 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 |