Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, March 2021
901 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 33 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. Postscript.io | 21% | 190 | +1.7 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.8.1% · e.g. TaxJar | 8.1% | 73 | +0.3 |
| 3 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.6.9% · e.g. Grafana Labs | 6.9% | 62 | +1.9 |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.6.1% · e.g. Lingokids | 6.1% | 55 | -1.4 |
| 5 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.5.4% · e.g. Digivault | 5.4% | 49 | -1.1 |
| 6 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.5.4% · e.g. Digivault | 5.4% | 49 | -0.8 |
| 7 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.1% · e.g. Tessian | 5.1% | 46 | -1.4 |
| 8 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.3% · e.g. TaxJar | 4.3% | 39 | +0.0 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.6% · e.g. FreeFlyer @ a.i. solutions | 3.6% | 32 | +1.1 |
| 10 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.3.2% · e.g. Compass | 3.2% | 29 | +1.3 |
| 11 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.9% · e.g. eBay | 2.9% | 26 | -0.5 |
| 12 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.8% · e.g. Aha! | 2.8% | 25 | -0.9 |
| 13 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.2.4% · e.g. Codecov | 2.4% | 22 | +0.7 |
| 14 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.3% · e.g. Maximus | 1.3% | 12 | +0.7 |
| 15 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.3% · e.g. The Points Guy | 1.3% | 12 | +0.2 |
| 16 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.80% · e.g. Codecov | 0.80% | 7 | +0.5 |
| 17 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.80% · e.g. Covalent | 0.80% | 7 | +0.5 |
| 18 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.80% · e.g. Grouparoo | 0.80% | 7 | +0.5 |
| 19 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.70% · e.g. StatsBomb | 0.70% | 6 | +0.1 |
| 20 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.70% · e.g. Beacon Biosignals | 0.70% | 6 | +0.4 |
| 21 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.60% · e.g. World Resources Institute | 0.60% | 5 | -0.2 |
| 22 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.30% · e.g. Vic.ai | 0.30% | 3 | +0.0 |
| 23 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.30% · e.g. Squarespace | 0.30% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 24 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.30% · e.g. Paige | 0.30% | 3 | +0.0 |
| 25 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.30% · e.g. Wyze Labs | 0.30% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 26 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. Co - Star Astrology | 0.30% | 3 | -0.5 |
| 27 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.20% · e.g. Minimax Labs | 0.20% | 2 | -0.4 |
| 28 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.20% · e.g. Epistemic AI | 0.20% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 29 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.20% · e.g. Pex | 0.20% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 30 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.20% · e.g. PathAI | 0.20% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 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. 98point6 | 0.20% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 32 | AI Deployment EngineerDeploys and tunes an AI product or agent inside a customer's stack; a close cousin of the forward deployed engineer.0.10% · e.g. Fishtown Analytics | 0.10% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 33 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.10% · e.g. Matician | 0.10% | 1 | -0.1 |