Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, November 2019
626 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 29 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% · an example posting | 18% | 111 | +1.0 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.8.9% · e.g. GitLab | 8.9% | 56 | +3.1 |
| 3 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.6.9% · e.g. Sweetgreen | 6.9% | 43 | +0.4 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.6.7% · e.g. Commure, Inc. | 6.7% | 42 | +1.6 |
| 5 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.6.2% · e.g. GitLab | 6.2% | 39 | +1.7 |
| 6 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.6.1% · e.g. GitLab | 6.1% | 38 | +1.9 |
| 7 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.4% · e.g. Zoba | 5.4% | 34 | +0.2 |
| 8 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.5.3% · e.g. Commure, Inc. | 5.3% | 33 | +0.3 |
| 9 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.3.2% · e.g. GitLab | 3.2% | 20 | +1.9 |
| 10 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.0% · e.g. Occipital | 3.0% | 19 | -0.7 |
| 11 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.7% · e.g. Freenome | 2.7% | 17 | -0.2 |
| 12 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.2.7% · e.g. Clover | 2.7% | 17 | +1.4 |
| 13 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.3% · e.g. GitLab | 1.3% | 8 | -0.3 |
| 14 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.3% · e.g. MobilityWare | 1.3% | 8 | -0.1 |
| 15 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.80% · e.g. ReadMe | 0.80% | 5 | +0.1 |
| 16 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.80% · e.g. evervault | 0.80% | 5 | -0.5 |
| 17 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.60% · e.g. Occipital | 0.60% | 4 | +0.3 |
| 18 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.50% · e.g. GitLab | 0.50% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 19 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.50% · e.g. MIT Quest for Intelligence | 0.50% | 3 | -0.4 |
| 20 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.50% · e.g. HyperCube | 0.50% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 21 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.30% · e.g. Recursion Pharmaceuticals | 0.30% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 22 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.30% · e.g. Dex | 0.30% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 23 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 24 | 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 | -0.3 |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.20% · e.g. Komodo Health | 0.20% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 27 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.20% · e.g. HyperCube | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 28 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.20% · e.g. Terascope | 0.20% | 1 | -0.7 |
| 29 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.20% · e.g. Paige | 0.20% | 1 | +0.1 |