Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, October 2019
718 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 31 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. Seantis GmbH | 17% | 122 | +0.4 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.7.8% · e.g. GitLab | 7.8% | 56 | +2.4 |
| 3 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.7.2% · e.g. Relayr | 7.2% | 52 | +1.3 |
| 4 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.6.8% · e.g. GitLab | 6.8% | 49 | +3.6 |
| 5 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.5.4% · e.g. Web3 Foundation | 5.4% | 39 | +0.7 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.0% · e.g. GitLab | 5.0% | 36 | +1.3 |
| 7 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.9% · e.g. Insider, Inc | 4.9% | 35 | -0.7 |
| 8 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.4.7% · e.g. Relayr | 4.7% | 34 | -0.3 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.9% · an example posting | 3.9% | 28 | +1.0 |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.5% · e.g. Occipital | 3.5% | 25 | +0.9 |
| 11 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.5% · e.g. GitLab | 2.5% | 18 | +1.0 |
| 12 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.1.9% · e.g. Transparent Systems | 1.9% | 14 | +1.3 |
| 13 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.7% · e.g. GitLab | 1.7% | 12 | -0.2 |
| 14 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.5% · e.g. Factual | 1.5% | 11 | +0.6 |
| 15 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.70% · e.g. GitLab | 0.70% | 5 | +0.5 |
| 16 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.70% · e.g. CoinTracker | 0.70% | 5 | -0.3 |
| 17 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.70% · e.g. ForestAdmin.com | 0.70% | 5 | +0.3 |
| 18 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.70% · e.g. Lambda School | 0.70% | 5 | +0.1 |
| 19 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.60% · e.g. Occipital | 0.60% | 4 | +0.2 |
| 20 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.40% · e.g. Recursion Pharmaceuticals | 0.40% | 3 | -0.2 |
| 21 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.40% · e.g. Aquabyte | 0.40% | 3 | +0.1 |
| 22 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.40% · e.g. Tact.AI | 0.40% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 23 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.30% · e.g. JustWatch | 0.30% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 24 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.30% · e.g. Kira Systems | 0.30% | 2 | -1.2 |
| 25 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.30% · e.g. Solana | 0.30% | 2 | -0.6 |
| 26 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.30% · e.g. HyperCube | 0.30% | 2 | -0.6 |
| 27 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.10% · e.g. Aquabyte | 0.10% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 28 | 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 | -0.5 |
| 29 | 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. Bonobos | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 30 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.10% · e.g. HyperCube | 0.10% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 31 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.10% · an example posting | 0.10% | 1 | -0.2 |