Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, April 2021
876 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 32 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. Hiro | 18% | 156 | +2.0 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.9.0% · e.g. Abine | 9.0% | 79 | +0.5 |
| 3 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.6.6% · e.g. Maven Clinic | 6.6% | 58 | +0.3 |
| 4 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.6.6% · e.g. Tulip | 6.6% | 58 | -0.2 |
| 5 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.8% · e.g. Tessian | 5.8% | 51 | -1.2 |
| 6 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.4% · e.g. Blockwatch | 5.4% | 47 | -2.3 |
| 7 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.5.1% · e.g. Ceros | 5.1% | 45 | +0.5 |
| 8 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.7% · e.g. LifeWeb 360 | 4.7% | 41 | +1.2 |
| 9 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.7% · e.g. Cohere Health | 3.7% | 32 | -0.2 |
| 10 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.4% · e.g. Blockwatch | 3.4% | 30 | +1.0 |
| 11 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.2.7% · e.g. Maven Clinic | 2.7% | 24 | +0.7 |
| 12 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.2.4% · e.g. Spacelift | 2.4% | 21 | +0.2 |
| 13 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.3% · e.g. Aha! | 2.3% | 20 | -0.1 |
| 14 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.0% · e.g. Codecov | 1.0% | 9 | +0.6 |
| 15 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.0% · e.g. AllTrails | 1.0% | 9 | -0.3 |
| 16 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.0% · e.g. RYSTA | 1.0% | 9 | -0.1 |
| 17 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.70% · e.g. National Robotics Engineering Center | 0.70% | 6 | +0.3 |
| 18 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.70% · e.g. Paige | 0.70% | 6 | -0.2 |
| 19 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.70% · e.g. Arctype | 0.70% | 6 | +0.0 |
| 20 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.60% · e.g. DFINITY | 0.60% | 5 | +0.4 |
| 21 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.50% · e.g. World Resources Institute | 0.50% | 4 | +0.3 |
| 22 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.50% · e.g. Quant Finance | 0.50% | 4 | +0.3 |
| 23 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.30% · e.g. Cohere Health | 0.30% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 24 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.30% · e.g. Roblox | 0.30% | 3 | -0.1 |
| 25 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.30% · e.g. Microsoft | 0.30% | 3 | +0.1 |
| 26 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.30% · e.g. Posh Tech| Multiple Full-Time Roles | 0.30% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 27 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 28 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.20% · e.g. Spruce | 0.20% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 29 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.20% · e.g. Pex | 0.20% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 30 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.20% · e.g. PicnicHealth | 0.20% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 31 | AI Deployment EngineerDeploys and tunes an AI product or agent inside a customer's stack; a close cousin of the forward deployed engineer.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 32 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.10% · e.g. 98point6 | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |