Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, August 2021
833 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 29 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. Sounding Board | 19% | 161 | -0.3 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.8.9% · e.g. Codecov | 8.9% | 74 | -0.8 |
| 3 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.7.1% · e.g. Bolt | 7.1% | 59 | +2.2 |
| 4 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.6.8% · an example posting | 6.8% | 57 | +0.7 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.6.1% · e.g. Niche | 6.1% | 51 | +1.1 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.4% · e.g. Niche | 5.4% | 45 | +0.9 |
| 7 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.0% · an example posting | 5.0% | 42 | -0.8 |
| 8 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.9% · e.g. Tecton | 4.9% | 41 | +0.5 |
| 9 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.1% · e.g. Tapad | 3.1% | 26 | +0.0 |
| 10 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.3.1% · e.g. Plus | 3.1% | 26 | +1.1 |
| 11 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.9% · e.g. MachineMetrics | 2.9% | 24 | -1.8 |
| 12 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.4% · e.g. Codecov | 2.4% | 20 | -1.4 |
| 13 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.9% · e.g. Execvision | 1.9% | 16 | +0.0 |
| 14 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.7% · e.g. Giant Swarm | 1.7% | 14 | +0.8 |
| 15 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.1.4% · e.g. Clubs Poker | 1.4% | 12 | +1.1 |
| 16 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.3% · e.g. Encore | 1.3% | 11 | +0.7 |
| 17 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.2% · e.g. Codecov | 1.2% | 10 | +0.1 |
| 18 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.1.0% · e.g. Ceramic Network | 1.0% | 8 | +0.7 |
| 19 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.80% · e.g. Lumen5 | 0.80% | 7 | +0.5 |
| 20 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.70% · e.g. Generally Intelligent | 0.70% | 6 | +0.5 |
| 21 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.60% · e.g. Valo | 0.60% | 5 | +0.0 |
| 22 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 4 | +0.2 |
| 23 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.50% · e.g. Optimal Agriculture | 0.50% | 4 | +0.2 |
| 24 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.50% · e.g. Foresight Data Machines | 0.50% | 4 | +0.0 |
| 25 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.40% · e.g. SimBioSys | 0.40% | 3 | +0.1 |
| 26 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.10% · e.g. PathAI | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 27 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.10% · e.g. Alcorn McBride Inc. | 0.10% | 1 | -0.4 |
| 28 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.10% · e.g. Shield AI | 0.10% | 1 | -0.7 |
| 29 | 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. Splunk | 0.10% | 1 | -0.2 |