Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, August 2019
727 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 30 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. Aha! | 16% | 116 | -1.4 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.8.5% · e.g. Aha! | 8.5% | 62 | +1.8 |
| 3 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.6.6% · an example posting | 6.6% | 48 | +0.4 |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.5% · e.g. National Robotics Engineering Center | 5.5% | 40 | -0.5 |
| 5 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.5.0% · e.g. Tray.io | 5.0% | 36 | +2.0 |
| 6 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.8% · e.g. Aha! | 4.8% | 35 | -0.4 |
| 7 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.4% · e.g. FanDuel | 4.4% | 32 | -0.4 |
| 8 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.3.9% · e.g. Commure, Inc. | 3.9% | 28 | -1.3 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.7% · an example posting | 3.7% | 27 | +0.1 |
| 10 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.6% · e.g. Aha! | 2.6% | 19 | +0.1 |
| 11 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.2.6% · e.g. GitLab | 2.6% | 19 | +1.2 |
| 12 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.6% · e.g. Recursion Pharmaceuticals | 2.6% | 19 | -0.3 |
| 13 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.1.7% · e.g. Forge.AI | 1.7% | 12 | +0.7 |
| 14 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.2% · e.g. Prodo | 1.2% | 9 | +0.9 |
| 15 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.80% · e.g. corrux | 0.80% | 6 | -0.6 |
| 16 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.80% · e.g. O(1) Labs | 0.80% | 6 | -0.4 |
| 17 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.70% · e.g. Lambda School | 0.70% | 5 | +0.0 |
| 18 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.70% · e.g. SRAM | 0.70% | 5 | -0.1 |
| 19 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.60% · e.g. simplesurance GmbH | 0.60% | 4 | +0.4 |
| 20 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.60% · e.g. Forge.AI | 0.60% | 4 | +0.6 |
| 21 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.40% · e.g. Recursion Pharmaceuticals | 0.40% | 3 | -1.0 |
| 22 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.30% · e.g. National Robotics Engineering Center | 0.30% | 2 | -0.7 |
| 23 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.30% · e.g. Ntrepid LLC | 0.30% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 24 | 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 | +0.1 |
| 25 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.30% · e.g. VSCO | 0.30% | 2 | -0.5 |
| 26 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.30% · e.g. Aquabyte | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 27 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.10% · e.g. Better.com | 0.10% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 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. Komodo Health | 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. Afresh | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 30 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.10% · e.g. Aquabyte | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |