Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, September 2021
896 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 30 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. Boon | 20% | 176 | -0.3 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.9.2% · e.g. Raspberry Pi Foundation | 9.2% | 82 | +0.3 |
| 3 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.8.4% · e.g. Raspberry Pi Foundation | 8.4% | 75 | +3.9 |
| 4 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.7.3% · e.g. Niche | 7.3% | 65 | +1.3 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.6.6% · e.g. Square Sense | 6.6% | 59 | +0.4 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.6.1% · e.g. Raspberry Pi Foundation | 6.1% | 55 | +1.9 |
| 7 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.8% · e.g. Tessian | 5.8% | 52 | -0.2 |
| 8 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.5% · e.g. MachineMetrics | 4.5% | 40 | -0.5 |
| 9 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.6% · e.g. Paperspace | 3.6% | 32 | -0.3 |
| 10 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.3.0% · e.g. Zillow | 3.0% | 27 | +0.8 |
| 11 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.9% · e.g. Curative | 2.9% | 26 | +0.2 |
| 12 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.8% · e.g. Featurespace | 2.8% | 25 | +0.0 |
| 13 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.7% · e.g. Cedar | 1.7% | 15 | +0.7 |
| 14 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.6% · an example posting | 1.6% | 14 | +0.9 |
| 15 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.3% · e.g. Uncountable | 1.3% | 12 | +0.0 |
| 16 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.1% · e.g. Codecov | 1.1% | 10 | +0.3 |
| 17 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.1.0% · e.g. Rex | 1.0% | 9 | +0.5 |
| 18 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.80% · e.g. Cofense | 0.80% | 7 | +0.3 |
| 19 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.80% · e.g. Switcher Labs SA | 0.80% | 7 | +0.6 |
| 20 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.60% · e.g. SimBioSys | 0.60% | 5 | +0.3 |
| 21 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.40% · e.g. Ceramic Network | 0.40% | 4 | +0.1 |
| 22 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. Shield AI | 0.30% | 3 | +0.0 |
| 23 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.30% · e.g. Humanloop | 0.30% | 3 | +0.0 |
| 24 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.20% · e.g. Shield AI | 0.20% | 2 | -0.6 |
| 25 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.20% · e.g. Ntropy | 0.20% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 26 | 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. balena.io | 0.20% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 27 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.20% · e.g. Occipital | 0.20% | 2 | -0.3 |
| 28 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.10% · e.g. App Annie | 0.10% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 29 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.10% · e.g. Nightfall AI | 0.10% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 30 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.10% · e.g. Metaculus.com | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |