Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, January 2021
701 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 31 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 18% 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.18% · e.g. Aha! | 18% | 123 | +0.2 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.8.1% · e.g. Aha! | 8.1% | 57 | -0.5 |
| 3 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.6.4% · e.g. Niche | 6.4% | 45 | -0.4 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.6.1% · e.g. SprintEins | 6.1% | 43 | +0.8 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.8% · e.g. Episerver + Optimizely | 5.8% | 41 | +0.0 |
| 6 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.5.7% · e.g. Zocdoc | 5.7% | 40 | +1.0 |
| 7 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.6% · an example posting | 5.6% | 39 | +0.9 |
| 8 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.6% · e.g. Cfx.re | 5.6% | 39 | +0.7 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.4% · an example posting | 3.4% | 24 | -0.1 |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.3% · e.g. NASA ADS | 3.3% | 23 | +1.2 |
| 11 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.3.0% · e.g. Aha! | 3.0% | 21 | -1.0 |
| 12 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.2.6% · e.g. Zocdoc | 2.6% | 18 | +0.3 |
| 13 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.2.1% · e.g. Striim | 2.1% | 15 | +0.5 |
| 14 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.4% · e.g. Taskade | 1.4% | 10 | +0.0 |
| 15 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.90% · e.g. n8n.io | 0.90% | 6 | +0.4 |
| 16 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.90% · e.g. Grouparoo | 0.90% | 6 | +0.9 |
| 17 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.70% · e.g. Good Eggs | 0.70% | 5 | -0.5 |
| 18 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.60% · e.g. StatsBomb | 0.60% | 4 | +0.3 |
| 19 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.60% · e.g. Beacon Biosignals | 0.60% | 4 | +0.6 |
| 20 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.40% · e.g. Exscientia | 0.40% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 21 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. Entia | 0.30% | 2 | -0.4 |
| 22 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.30% · e.g. Hashflow | 0.30% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 23 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.30% · e.g. Citrine Informatics | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 24 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.30% · e.g. Roblox | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 25 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 26 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.30% · e.g. Paige | 0.30% | 2 | -0.4 |
| 27 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.10% · e.g. Zocdoc | 0.10% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 28 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.10% · e.g. MIT Julia Lab | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 29 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.10% · e.g. Pex | 0.10% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 30 | Chief Data OfficerThe executive who owns data governance, quality and analytics.0.10% · e.g. Kessel Run | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 31 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.10% · e.g. WELL Health Inc. | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |