Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, May 2020
498 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 25 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% · e.g. ISO | 18% | 91 | +2.4 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.9.2% · e.g. SCRUFF | 9.2% | 46 | +1.5 |
| 3 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.6.2% · e.g. Tulip | 6.2% | 31 | +1.8 |
| 4 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.5.6% · e.g. Roblox | 5.6% | 28 | +0.2 |
| 5 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.4% · e.g. Thorn | 5.4% | 27 | -2.6 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.4% · e.g. Tray.io | 5.4% | 27 | +0.5 |
| 7 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.5.0% · e.g. 98point6 | 5.0% | 25 | -1.2 |
| 8 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.4.6% · e.g. 98point6 | 4.6% | 23 | -2.6 |
| 9 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.4.0% · e.g. Viaduct | 4.0% | 20 | +0.2 |
| 10 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.2.6% · e.g. Shield AI | 2.6% | 13 | +1.0 |
| 11 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.4% · e.g. 98point6 | 2.4% | 12 | +0.3 |
| 12 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.4% · e.g. Sysco LABS | 2.4% | 12 | -1.9 |
| 13 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.6% · e.g. BentoML.ai | 1.6% | 8 | -0.4 |
| 14 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.2% · e.g. Airtable | 1.2% | 6 | +0.6 |
| 15 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.0% · e.g. Elevate Labs | 1.0% | 5 | -0.1 |
| 16 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.80% · e.g. BetterUp | 0.80% | 4 | +0.1 |
| 17 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.60% · an example posting | 0.60% | 3 | +0.1 |
| 18 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.60% · e.g. Genesis Therapeutics | 0.60% | 3 | +0.2 |
| 19 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.40% · e.g. Roblox | 0.40% | 2 | -0.5 |
| 20 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.40% · e.g. National Robotics Engineering Center | 0.40% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 21 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.20% · e.g. Forestry.io | 0.20% | 1 | -1.0 |
| 22 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | -0.3 |
| 23 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.20% · e.g. Grainite | 0.20% | 1 | -0.4 |
| 24 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.20% · e.g. SMX | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 25 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.20% · e.g. JustWatch | 0.20% | 1 | -0.3 |