Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, September 2020
597 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 31 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. Codecov | 20% | 119 | +1.7 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.8.9% · e.g. JustWatch | 8.9% | 53 | -0.3 |
| 3 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.6.2% · e.g. BOMBORA | 6.2% | 37 | +0.3 |
| 4 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.6.0% · e.g. MemSQL | 6.0% | 36 | +0.9 |
| 5 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.6.0% · e.g. Niche | 6.0% | 36 | +0.1 |
| 6 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.5.0% · e.g. Codecov | 5.0% | 30 | -1.6 |
| 7 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.4.5% · e.g. DFINITY | 4.5% | 27 | -0.5 |
| 8 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.2% · e.g. DuckDuckGo | 4.2% | 25 | -1.1 |
| 9 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.9% · e.g. EUROPE | 3.9% | 23 | +1.6 |
| 10 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.8% · e.g. DFINITY | 2.8% | 17 | +0.2 |
| 11 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.7% · e.g. Codecov | 2.7% | 16 | -1.6 |
| 12 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.2.2% · e.g. Urbint | 2.2% | 13 | +0.4 |
| 13 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.3% · e.g. Maximus | 1.3% | 8 | +0.1 |
| 14 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.0% · e.g. Codecov | 1.0% | 6 | -0.2 |
| 15 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.80% · e.g. Imperfect Foods | 0.80% | 5 | -1.0 |
| 16 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.80% · e.g. Genesis Therapeutics | 0.80% | 5 | +0.5 |
| 17 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.70% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 0.70% | 4 | -0.3 |
| 18 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.50% · e.g. Roblox | 0.50% | 3 | -0.3 |
| 19 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.50% · e.g. Caper | 0.50% | 3 | +0.5 |
| 20 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.50% · e.g. Select Star | 0.50% | 3 | +0.2 |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.30% · e.g. Applied Scientist | 0.30% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 23 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. Nylas | 0.30% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 24 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.30% · e.g. Celonis | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 25 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.30% · e.g. Genesis Therapeutics | 0.30% | 2 | -0.4 |
| 26 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.30% · e.g. Alameda Research | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 27 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.30% · e.g. Tesla | 0.30% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 28 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.20% · e.g. Pex | 0.20% | 1 | -0.5 |
| 29 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.20% · e.g. Olo | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 30 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.20% · e.g. Helm.ai | 0.20% | 1 | -0.3 |
| 31 | 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. Health Union | 0.20% | 1 | +0.0 |