Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, March 2020
644 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 32 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 19% 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.19% · e.g. Aha! | 19% | 125 | +3.5 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.7.8% · e.g. GitLab | 7.8% | 50 | -0.2 |
| 3 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.7.5% · e.g. MachineMetrics | 7.5% | 48 | +2.9 |
| 4 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.6.5% · e.g. MemSQL | 6.5% | 42 | +1.5 |
| 5 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.6.5% · e.g. Recursion Pharmaceuticals | 6.5% | 42 | -0.5 |
| 6 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.6.2% · e.g. Aha! | 6.2% | 40 | -0.4 |
| 7 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.5.0% · e.g. GitLab | 5.0% | 32 | -0.4 |
| 8 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.3% · e.g. Tessian | 4.3% | 28 | -0.4 |
| 9 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.3.7% · e.g. GitLab | 3.7% | 24 | +2.9 |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.4% · e.g. ML6 | 3.4% | 22 | -0.5 |
| 11 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.5% · e.g. Paperspace | 2.5% | 16 | -1.0 |
| 12 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.1.9% · e.g. Braze | 1.9% | 12 | -0.4 |
| 13 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.7% · e.g. GitLab | 1.7% | 11 | -0.3 |
| 14 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.1% · e.g. Factual | 1.1% | 7 | -0.1 |
| 15 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.80% · e.g. GitLab | 0.80% | 5 | +0.3 |
| 16 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.80% · e.g. Tessian | 0.80% | 5 | +0.5 |
| 17 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.60% · e.g. Minimax Labs | 0.60% | 4 | +0.3 |
| 18 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.60% · e.g. Narmi | 0.60% | 4 | -0.3 |
| 19 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.60% · e.g. curbFlow | 0.60% | 4 | +0.3 |
| 20 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.30% · e.g. Beacon Biosignals | 0.30% | 2 | -0.4 |
| 21 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.30% · e.g. LeanTaaS | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 22 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.30% · e.g. Paige | 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 | +0.0 |
| 24 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.30% · e.g. PureStake | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 25 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.30% · e.g. Splunk | 0.30% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 26 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.30% · e.g. Automattic | 0.30% | 2 | -0.8 |
| 27 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.30% · e.g. NetSpring | 0.30% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.20% · e.g. Survata | 0.20% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 30 | 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. Automattic | 0.20% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 31 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.20% · e.g. RadiusAI | 0.20% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 32 | AI Deployment EngineerDeploys and tunes an AI product or agent inside a customer's stack; a close cousin of the forward deployed engineer.0.20% · e.g. 6 River Systems | 0.20% | 1 | +0.1 |