Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, July 2020
536 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 33 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. Thorn | 17% | 92 | +0.6 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.7.8% · e.g. Tapad | 7.8% | 42 | +0.7 |
| 3 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.7.1% · e.g. MemSQL | 7.1% | 38 | +3.0 |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.6.5% · e.g. Thorn | 6.5% | 35 | -0.6 |
| 5 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.4% · e.g. Thorn | 5.4% | 29 | -0.8 |
| 6 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.5.0% · e.g. Klarna Bank | 5.0% | 27 | -0.2 |
| 7 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.9% · e.g. Glide | 4.9% | 26 | +0.9 |
| 8 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.3.9% · e.g. Thorn | 3.9% | 21 | +1.1 |
| 9 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.9% · e.g. EUROPE | 3.9% | 21 | +1.1 |
| 10 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.3.5% · e.g. Klarna Bank | 3.5% | 19 | -1.1 |
| 11 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.0% · e.g. Pachyderm | 3.0% | 16 | -0.2 |
| 12 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.2.4% · e.g. Shield AI | 2.4% | 13 | +0.7 |
| 13 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.9% · an example posting | 1.9% | 10 | +0.8 |
| 14 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.7% · e.g. Pachyderm | 1.7% | 9 | -0.1 |
| 15 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.1% · e.g. Anvil | 1.1% | 6 | +0.0 |
| 16 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.90% · e.g. Catasys | 0.90% | 5 | +0.5 |
| 17 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.90% · e.g. Course Hero | 0.90% | 5 | -0.4 |
| 18 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.70% · e.g. Aspen | 0.70% | 4 | +0.2 |
| 19 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.70% · e.g. Searchable.ai | 0.70% | 4 | -0.2 |
| 20 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.70% · e.g. Radar | 0.70% | 4 | +0.0 |
| 21 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.70% · e.g. Blockstack | 0.70% | 4 | +0.6 |
| 22 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.60% · e.g. Kessel Run | 0.60% | 3 | -0.1 |
| 23 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.40% · e.g. Amazon | 0.40% | 2 | +0.4 |
| 24 | 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 | -0.3 |
| 25 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.40% · e.g. FullStory | 0.40% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 26 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.40% · e.g. Andalus | 0.40% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 27 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.40% · e.g. Facebook Reality Labs | 0.40% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 28 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.40% · e.g. Tesla | 0.40% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 29 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.20% · e.g. Pex | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 30 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.20% · e.g. Cognii | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 31 | AI TutorWrites and grades data that teaches a model a language or a subject; a model-training role, not teaching people.0.20% · e.g. Cognii | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 32 | 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 | -0.1 |
| 33 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.20% · e.g. Searchable.ai | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |