Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, December 2019
583 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. Aha! | 17% | 96 | -1.4 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.7.9% · e.g. Aha! | 7.9% | 46 | +1.2 |
| 3 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.6.5% · e.g. Smartsheet | 6.5% | 38 | -0.1 |
| 4 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.6.0% · e.g. GitLab | 6.0% | 35 | +1.6 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.8% · e.g. Tapad | 5.8% | 34 | -0.5 |
| 6 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.5.5% · e.g. Commure, Inc. | 5.5% | 32 | +1.4 |
| 7 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.5.0% · e.g. Aha! | 5.0% | 29 | -2.4 |
| 8 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.8% · e.g. GitLab | 4.8% | 28 | -1.0 |
| 9 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.3.9% · e.g. Aha! | 3.9% | 23 | +2.3 |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.8% · e.g. Facebook Dangerous Content ML | 3.8% | 22 | +1.0 |
| 11 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.2.6% · e.g. GitLab | 2.6% | 15 | +0.9 |
| 12 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.2% · an example posting | 2.2% | 13 | -1.0 |
| 13 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.1.5% · e.g. Braze | 1.5% | 9 | -0.4 |
| 14 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.2% · e.g. LeanTaaS | 1.2% | 7 | -0.3 |
| 15 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.90% · an example posting | 0.90% | 5 | -0.4 |
| 16 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.90% · an example posting | 0.90% | 5 | +0.0 |
| 17 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.70% · e.g. Ghost Robotics | 0.70% | 4 | +0.0 |
| 18 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. GitLab | 0.30% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 19 | 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 | +0.2 |
| 20 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.30% · e.g. Genesis Therapeutics | 0.30% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 21 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.30% · e.g. OpenReview | 0.30% | 2 | -0.4 |
| 22 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.30% · e.g. HORA.AI | 0.30% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 23 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.30% · e.g. Galois | 0.30% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 24 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.30% · e.g. Simbe | 0.30% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 25 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.20% · e.g. Ordergroove | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 26 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.20% · e.g. Herbi | 0.20% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 27 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.20% · e.g. Causaly | 0.20% | 1 | -0.6 |
| 28 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.20% · e.g. Tessian | 0.20% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 29 | Agent EngineerBuilds LLM agents that plan and call tools, and the harnesses that keep them reliable.0.20% · e.g. Sqreen | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 30 | Chief Data OfficerThe executive who owns data governance, quality and analytics.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |