Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, October 2021
769 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 29 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 18% 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.18% · e.g. VIERLIVE | 18% | 135 | -2.9 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.9.6% · e.g. Turnstile | 9.6% | 74 | +1.1 |
| 3 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.8.5% · e.g. Grafana Labs | 8.5% | 65 | +3.3 |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.6.5% · e.g. Consumer Edge | 6.5% | 50 | +1.0 |
| 5 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.6.4% · e.g. AdGear | 6.4% | 49 | +0.2 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.3% · e.g. MediaMath | 5.3% | 41 | -0.1 |
| 7 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.4.4% · e.g. Recursion Pharmaceuticals | 4.4% | 34 | +1.0 |
| 8 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.3.4% · e.g. MediaMath | 3.4% | 26 | +0.7 |
| 9 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.3.3% · e.g. MachineMetrics | 3.3% | 25 | -0.5 |
| 10 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.7% · e.g. Codecov | 2.7% | 21 | +0.3 |
| 11 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.7% · e.g. BenchSci-AI Software | 2.7% | 21 | -0.8 |
| 12 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.6% · e.g. Aha! | 2.6% | 20 | -0.2 |
| 13 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.2.5% · e.g. Garden | 2.5% | 19 | +1.2 |
| 14 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.2.3% · e.g. Relayr | 2.3% | 18 | +0.5 |
| 15 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.2.1% · e.g. Turnstile | 2.1% | 16 | +1.8 |
| 16 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.4% · e.g. Codecov | 1.4% | 11 | +0.7 |
| 17 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.3% · e.g. Voltus | 1.3% | 10 | -0.1 |
| 18 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.80% · e.g. Audit Sight | 0.80% | 6 | +0.7 |
| 19 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.50% · e.g. KeepTruckin | 0.50% | 4 | +0.1 |
| 20 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.50% · e.g. Aquabyte | 0.50% | 4 | +0.2 |
| 21 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.40% · e.g. Minimax Labs | 0.40% | 3 | +0.0 |
| 22 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.40% · e.g. NOLA Public Schools | 0.40% | 3 | +0.1 |
| 23 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.30% · e.g. BenchSci-AI Software | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 24 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.30% · e.g. Zillow, Rich Media Experiences team | 0.30% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 25 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.30% · e.g. Uizard | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 26 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.10% · e.g. Paige | 0.10% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 27 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.10% · e.g. Beacon Biosignals | 0.10% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 28 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.10% · e.g. Steakwallet | 0.10% | 1 | -0.5 |
| 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. CloudTrucks | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |