Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, September 2019
606 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 31 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 18% 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.18% · e.g. Comet.ml | 18% | 110 | +0.6 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.9.2% · an example posting | 9.2% | 56 | +3.5 |
| 3 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.6.6% · e.g. Originate | 6.6% | 40 | +2.2 |
| 4 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.9% · e.g. Tapad | 5.9% | 36 | +1.8 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.9% · e.g. Vigilant Web | 5.9% | 36 | +1.3 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.3% · an example posting | 5.3% | 32 | -0.1 |
| 7 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.5.1% · e.g. Commure, Inc. | 5.1% | 31 | +0.2 |
| 8 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.5.0% · an example posting | 5.0% | 30 | +2.4 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.4.3% · an example posting | 4.3% | 26 | +1.5 |
| 10 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.6% · e.g. Virtru | 2.6% | 16 | +0.9 |
| 11 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.3% · e.g. Recursion Pharmaceuticals | 2.3% | 14 | -1.0 |
| 12 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.8% · e.g. LeanTaaS | 1.8% | 11 | +1.1 |
| 13 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.1.8% · e.g. Amplitude Analytics | 1.8% | 11 | +0.2 |
| 14 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.2% · an example posting | 1.2% | 7 | -0.3 |
| 15 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.2% · e.g. Tapad | 1.2% | 7 | -0.1 |
| 16 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.0% · e.g. Deepnote | 1.0% | 6 | +0.6 |
| 17 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.80% · e.g. STRIIM | 0.80% | 5 | -0.1 |
| 18 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.70% · e.g. Recursion Pharmaceuticals | 0.70% | 4 | -0.2 |
| 19 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.70% · e.g. Better.com | 0.70% | 4 | +0.6 |
| 20 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.50% · e.g. HyperCube | 0.50% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 21 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.50% · e.g. Gladly | 0.50% | 3 | +0.2 |
| 22 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.30% · e.g. [still-unnamed startup in stealth mode] | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 23 | 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 | +0.3 |
| 24 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.30% · e.g. Unnamed Seed Stage Startup | 0.30% | 2 | -0.3 |
| 25 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.30% · e.g. Graphcore | 0.30% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 26 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.20% · e.g. HyperCube | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 27 | Member of Technical StaffA deliberately flat title from Bell Labs, revived by AI labs for engineers and researchers alike.0.20% · e.g. SocialSurvey | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 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 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 30 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.20% · e.g. Aquabyte | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 31 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.20% · e.g. Aquabyte | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |