Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, May 2021
841 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 33 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. Mammoth Biosciences | 20% | 168 | +1.7 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.8.1% · e.g. Aha! | 8.1% | 68 | -1.1 |
| 3 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.7.7% · e.g. Betterment | 7.7% | 65 | +1.5 |
| 4 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.7.0% · e.g. Betterment | 7.0% | 59 | +1.4 |
| 5 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.8% · e.g. Mammoth Biosciences | 5.8% | 49 | +0.4 |
| 6 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.6% · e.g. Aclaimant | 5.6% | 47 | +1.0 |
| 7 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.0% · e.g. Cfx.re | 5.0% | 42 | -0.4 |
| 8 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.4.9% · e.g. Interview Schedule | 4.9% | 41 | +2.5 |
| 9 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.5% · e.g. DFINITY | 4.5% | 38 | -0.5 |
| 10 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.2.6% · e.g. MeetElise AI Technologies | 2.6% | 22 | +0.0 |
| 11 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.5% · e.g. Aha! | 2.5% | 21 | +0.1 |
| 12 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.2.4% · e.g. Codecov | 2.4% | 20 | +0.8 |
| 13 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.4% · e.g. MeetElise AI Technologies | 2.4% | 20 | -1.6 |
| 14 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.1.9% · e.g. Grouparoo | 1.9% | 16 | +1.7 |
| 15 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.7% · e.g. Staircase | 1.7% | 14 | +0.5 |
| 16 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.3% · e.g. Codecov | 1.3% | 11 | +1.1 |
| 17 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.80% · e.g. Truework | 0.80% | 7 | -0.2 |
| 18 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.70% · e.g. Kalepa | 0.70% | 6 | -0.1 |
| 19 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.50% · e.g. 3Box Labs | 0.50% | 4 | +0.5 |
| 20 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.50% · e.g. ATHOS | 0.50% | 4 | -0.1 |
| 21 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.50% · e.g. Roblox Corp. | 0.50% | 4 | +0.1 |
| 22 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.40% · e.g. DFINITY | 0.40% | 3 | -0.2 |
| 23 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.20% · e.g. Cohere Health | 0.20% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 24 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.20% · e.g. Nuna | 0.20% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 25 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.20% · e.g. Generally Intelligent | 0.20% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 26 | 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% · e.g. Algorithmia | 0.20% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 27 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.10% · e.g. PicnicHealth | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 28 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.10% · e.g. Valo | 0.10% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.10% · e.g. Squarespace | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 31 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.10% · e.g. Minimax Labs | 0.10% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 32 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.10% · e.g. CipherTrace | 0.10% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 33 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.10% · e.g. PathAI | 0.10% | 1 | -0.3 |