Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, June 2021
965 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. Fulcrum | 21% | 198 | +3.7 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.9.0% · e.g. Fulcrum | 9.0% | 87 | +2.5 |
| 3 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.7.0% · e.g. SingleStore | 7.0% | 68 | +0.3 |
| 4 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.6.5% · e.g. Benepass | 6.5% | 63 | +0.6 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.6.1% · e.g. Volkswagen AG car.SW Org | 6.1% | 59 | +1.9 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.4% · e.g. Cfx.re | 5.4% | 52 | -0.9 |
| 7 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.4.6% · e.g. Volkswagen AG car.SW Org | 4.6% | 44 | +0.6 |
| 8 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.2% · e.g. Volkswagen AG car.SW Org | 4.2% | 41 | -0.5 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.8% · e.g. Tessian | 3.8% | 37 | +0.0 |
| 10 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.3.6% · e.g. Domino Data Lab | 3.6% | 35 | +1.0 |
| 11 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.5% · e.g. Podsights | 2.5% | 24 | -0.9 |
| 12 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.2.3% · e.g. Benepass | 2.3% | 22 | +1.1 |
| 13 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.8% · e.g. Aha! | 1.8% | 17 | -0.2 |
| 14 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.2% · an example posting | 1.2% | 12 | -0.4 |
| 15 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.2% · e.g. QuestDB | 1.2% | 12 | +0.8 |
| 16 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.1.2% · e.g. Canopy Analytics | 1.2% | 12 | +0.4 |
| 17 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.1% · e.g. Tresl | 1.1% | 11 | +0.3 |
| 18 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.70% · e.g. Lumen5 | 0.70% | 7 | +0.5 |
| 19 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.70% · an example posting | 0.70% | 7 | -0.1 |
| 20 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.50% · e.g. Research Engineer / Technical Writers | 0.50% | 5 | +0.1 |
| 21 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.50% · e.g. Innolitics | 0.50% | 5 | -0.3 |
| 22 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.40% · e.g. BREAKFAST | 0.40% | 4 | +0.2 |
| 23 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.40% · e.g. Sea Ranch Labs | 0.40% | 4 | +0.2 |
| 24 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.30% · e.g. Meter | 0.30% | 3 | -0.1 |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.30% · e.g. Valo | 0.30% | 3 | -0.3 |
| 27 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.30% · e.g. CrowdAI | 0.30% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 28 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.30% · e.g. Nuna | 0.30% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 29 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.20% · e.g. Podsights | 0.20% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 30 | 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. BMNT | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 31 | Forward Deployed EngineerAn engineer who ships software inside a customer's environment, part builder and part consultant; Palantir coined it, AI labs made it common.0.10% · e.g. The Commons Project | 0.10% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 32 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.10% · an example posting | 0.10% | 1 | -0.5 |
| 33 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.10% · e.g. 2txt NLG | 0.10% | 1 | -0.1 |