Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, July 2021
877 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 34 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 19% 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.19% · e.g. MachineMetrics | 19% | 162 | +1.3 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.8.7% · e.g. Aha! | 8.7% | 76 | +0.9 |
| 3 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.7.4% · e.g. Pyroscope | 7.4% | 65 | +0.3 |
| 4 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.6.0% · e.g. Niche | 6.0% | 53 | +1.1 |
| 5 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.5.7% · e.g. Tessian | 5.7% | 50 | +0.7 |
| 6 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.1% · e.g. Niche | 5.1% | 45 | -1.4 |
| 7 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.4.6% · e.g. Tessian | 4.6% | 40 | -0.8 |
| 8 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.3% · e.g. CommentSold | 4.3% | 38 | +0.8 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.5% · e.g. MachineMetrics | 3.5% | 31 | +0.5 |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.7% · e.g. EUROPE | 2.7% | 24 | -1.2 |
| 11 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.6% · e.g. Codecov | 2.6% | 23 | -1.3 |
| 12 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.2.6% · e.g. Savvy | 2.6% | 23 | +0.2 |
| 13 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.2.2% · e.g. Relayr | 2.2% | 19 | +0.5 |
| 14 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.2.1% · e.g. ARCADE | 2.1% | 18 | +1.4 |
| 15 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.8% · e.g. CyberArk | 1.8% | 16 | -0.1 |
| 16 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.8% · e.g. Stream | 1.8% | 16 | +0.7 |
| 17 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.7% · e.g. Fivetran | 1.7% | 15 | +0.8 |
| 18 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.90% · e.g. Aquabyte | 0.90% | 8 | +0.3 |
| 19 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.80% · e.g. Caper | 0.80% | 7 | +0.4 |
| 20 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.70% · e.g. Julia Computing | 0.70% | 6 | +0.3 |
| 21 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.60% · e.g. Ceramic Network | 0.60% | 5 | -0.1 |
| 22 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.60% · e.g. Shield AI | 0.60% | 5 | -0.3 |
| 23 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.50% · e.g. Skydio | 0.50% | 4 | +0.1 |
| 24 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.50% · e.g. Aquabyte | 0.50% | 4 | +0.1 |
| 25 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.20% · e.g. Meter | 0.20% | 2 | -0.5 |
| 26 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.20% · e.g. UserLeap | 0.20% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 27 | 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. Moveworks | 0.20% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 28 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.20% · e.g. Cognii | 0.20% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 29 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.20% · e.g. Roblox Corp. | 0.20% | 2 | -0.5 |
| 30 | 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 |
| 31 | AI TutorWrites and grades data that teaches a model a language or a subject; a model-training role, not teaching people.0.10% · e.g. Cognii | 0.10% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 32 | GTM EngineerBuilds sales and marketing systems with data enrichment, automation and language models instead of adding headcount.0.10% · e.g. Scale | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 33 | 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. Algorithmia | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 34 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.10% · e.g. Nuna | 0.10% | 1 | -0.1 |