Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, October 2020
707 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 29 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 21% 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.21% · e.g. Thorn | 21% | 145 | +3.5 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.8.5% · e.g. Aha! | 8.5% | 60 | +0.7 |
| 3 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.6.2% · e.g. MemSQL | 6.2% | 44 | +0.8 |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.5% · e.g. Relayr | 5.5% | 39 | +0.8 |
| 5 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.4% · an example posting | 5.4% | 38 | +0.4 |
| 6 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.5.2% · e.g. Sense | 5.2% | 37 | -1.6 |
| 7 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.3.8% · e.g. DuckDuckGo | 3.8% | 27 | -1.1 |
| 8 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.5% · e.g. Shield AI | 3.5% | 25 | +0.0 |
| 9 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.3.4% · e.g. entia.co | 3.4% | 24 | -3.8 |
| 10 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.8% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 2.8% | 20 | -1.1 |
| 11 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.2.7% · e.g. Shield AI | 2.7% | 19 | +0.8 |
| 12 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.4% · e.g. Aha! | 2.4% | 17 | -0.1 |
| 13 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.8% · e.g. Codecov | 1.8% | 13 | +0.1 |
| 14 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.4% · e.g. Ampolon Ventures | 1.4% | 10 | +0.7 |
| 15 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.3% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 1.3% | 9 | +0.6 |
| 16 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.70% · e.g. Wyze Labs | 0.70% | 5 | -0.8 |
| 17 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.60% · e.g. Alameda Research | 0.60% | 4 | +0.5 |
| 18 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.40% · e.g. Caper | 0.40% | 3 | -0.2 |
| 19 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.40% · e.g. Zimperium | 0.40% | 3 | +0.1 |
| 20 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.40% · e.g. Wyze Labs | 0.40% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 21 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.30% · e.g. DuckDuckGo | 0.30% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 22 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. Shield AI | 0.30% | 2 | -0.4 |
| 23 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.30% · e.g. Beacon Biosignals | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 24 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.30% · e.g. Arena | 0.30% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 25 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.30% · e.g. Grouparoo | 0.30% | 2 | -0.4 |
| 26 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.30% · e.g. Pex | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 27 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.10% · e.g. Lex Machina | 0.10% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 28 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.10% · e.g. Roblox | 0.10% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 29 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.10% · e.g. Paige | 0.10% | 1 | -0.3 |