Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, February 2020
577 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 28 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% | 100 | +2.1 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.9.4% · e.g. Aha! | 9.4% | 54 | +0.9 |
| 3 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.6.4% · e.g. GitLab | 6.4% | 37 | +1.3 |
| 4 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.6.2% · e.g. JustWatch | 6.2% | 36 | +2.1 |
| 5 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.5.7% · e.g. Aha! | 5.7% | 33 | -1.1 |
| 6 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.7% · e.g. Native Finance | 5.7% | 33 | -0.7 |
| 7 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.4.5% · e.g. PicnicHealth | 4.5% | 26 | +0.6 |
| 8 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.4.3% · e.g. Aha! | 4.3% | 25 | +2.4 |
| 9 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.4.2% · e.g. Factual | 4.2% | 24 | -2.7 |
| 10 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.4.2% · e.g. Occipital | 4.2% | 24 | +0.3 |
| 11 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.1% · e.g. GitLab | 3.1% | 18 | -2.3 |
| 12 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.2.1% · e.g. Braze | 2.1% | 12 | +0.1 |
| 13 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.9% · e.g. GitLab | 1.9% | 11 | +0.3 |
| 14 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.6% · e.g. Vanilla | 1.6% | 9 | +0.9 |
| 15 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.4% · e.g. Babylist | 1.4% | 8 | -0.3 |
| 16 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.90% · e.g. Intact Solutions | 0.90% | 5 | -0.1 |
| 17 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.70% · e.g. Anvil | 0.70% | 4 | -0.2 |
| 18 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.50% · e.g. GitLab | 0.50% | 3 | -0.2 |
| 19 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.50% · e.g. Occipital | 0.50% | 3 | +0.1 |
| 20 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.50% · e.g. Graphcore | 0.50% | 3 | +0.2 |
| 21 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.30% · e.g. LeanTaaS | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.20% · e.g. JustWatch | 0.20% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 24 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.20% · e.g. JustWatch | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 25 | 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 | +0.1 |
| 26 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.20% · e.g. Splunk | 0.20% | 1 | -0.5 |
| 27 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.20% · e.g. Audatic | 0.20% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 28 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |