Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, June 2020
506 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 29 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% | 85 | +0.0 |
| 2 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.6.7% · e.g. Stream.io | 6.7% | 34 | +2.9 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.6.5% · e.g. Aha! | 6.5% | 33 | +0.0 |
| 4 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.6.3% · e.g. DuckDuckGo | 6.3% | 32 | +0.8 |
| 5 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.5.9% · e.g. Klarna Bank | 5.9% | 30 | +0.9 |
| 6 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.7% · e.g. Klarna Bank | 4.7% | 24 | +0.0 |
| 7 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.4.2% · e.g. Thorn | 4.2% | 21 | -1.7 |
| 8 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.4.0% · e.g. Utilant | 4.0% | 20 | -3.0 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.8% · e.g. Celonis | 3.8% | 19 | +0.2 |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.4% · e.g. EUROPE | 3.4% | 17 | +0.7 |
| 11 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.2.6% · e.g. Braze | 2.6% | 13 | +1.2 |
| 12 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.0% · e.g. Aha! | 2.0% | 10 | -1.0 |
| 13 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.6% · e.g. BitMEX | 1.6% | 8 | +0.7 |
| 14 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.2% · e.g. JW Player | 1.2% | 6 | -1.5 |
| 15 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.80% · e.g. Elevate Labs | 0.80% | 4 | -0.4 |
| 16 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.80% · e.g. National Robotics Engineering Center | 0.80% | 4 | +0.3 |
| 17 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.80% · e.g. August Health | 0.80% | 4 | +0.5 |
| 18 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.80% · e.g. Genesis Therapeutics | 0.80% | 4 | +0.6 |
| 19 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.60% · e.g. Memrise | 0.60% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 20 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.60% · e.g. JustWatch | 0.60% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 21 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.40% · e.g. Minimax Labs | 0.40% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 22 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.40% · e.g. Lyft Level 5 | 0.40% | 2 | -0.4 |
| 23 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.40% · e.g. Sanity.io | 0.40% | 2 | -0.7 |
| 24 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.20% · e.g. Roblox | 0.20% | 1 | -0.7 |
| 25 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.20% · e.g. Amazon Advertising | 0.20% | 1 | -0.3 |
| 26 | 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.0.20% · e.g. Striim | 0.20% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 27 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.20% · e.g. Twitter Cortex | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 28 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.20% · e.g. IDx Technologies | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 29 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.20% · e.g. SmartContract | 0.20% | 1 | +0.0 |