Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, August 2020
638 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 33 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 20% 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.20% · e.g. Aha! | 20% | 125 | +3.6 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.9.7% · e.g. Aha! | 9.7% | 62 | +1.2 |
| 3 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.6.1% · e.g. Tulip | 6.1% | 39 | +2.2 |
| 4 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.8% · e.g. Thorn | 5.8% | 37 | -0.8 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.0% · e.g. Thorn | 5.0% | 32 | -0.5 |
| 6 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.4.9% · e.g. LogicGate | 4.9% | 31 | -0.1 |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.4.7% · e.g. CourtDrive | 4.7% | 30 | +1.0 |
| 8 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.5% · e.g. PAZZING | 4.5% | 29 | +0.1 |
| 9 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.4% · e.g. SHERPANY | 4.4% | 28 | -0.4 |
| 10 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.3.8% · e.g. Aha! | 3.8% | 24 | +1.2 |
| 11 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.1% · e.g. Shield AI | 3.1% | 20 | +0.5 |
| 12 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.2.0% · e.g. Qualio | 2.0% | 13 | +0.3 |
| 13 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.9% · e.g. Chartable | 1.9% | 12 | +1.1 |
| 14 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.1% · e.g. ML6 | 1.1% | 7 | +0.3 |
| 15 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.0.90% · e.g. Pachyderm | 0.90% | 6 | -1.7 |
| 16 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.80% · e.g. Layer | 0.80% | 5 | +0.3 |
| 17 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.60% · e.g. OneSignal | 0.60% | 4 | -0.6 |
| 18 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.60% · e.g. Koddi | 0.60% | 4 | +0.3 |
| 19 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.50% · e.g. Roblox | 0.50% | 3 | -0.2 |
| 20 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.50% · e.g. Genesis Therapeutics | 0.50% | 3 | +0.1 |
| 21 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.30% · e.g. Select Star | 0.30% | 2 | -0.4 |
| 22 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. Technical product manager | 0.30% | 2 | -0.3 |
| 23 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.30% · e.g. Caper | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 24 | 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. Codecov | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 25 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.30% · e.g. Loom | 0.30% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 26 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.30% · e.g. Audatic | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 27 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.30% · e.g. SmartContract | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 28 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.20% · e.g. Pex | 0.20% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 29 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.20% · e.g. Helm.ai | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 33 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.20% · e.g. Citrine Informatics | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |