Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, November 2021
942 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 32 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. Codecov | 19% | 179 | +0.2 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.8.7% · e.g. Citymapper | 8.7% | 82 | +1.6 |
| 3 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.7.6% · e.g. Bolt | 7.6% | 72 | +2.3 |
| 4 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.6.6% · e.g. Tulip | 6.6% | 62 | +1.1 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.6.1% · e.g. Fast | 6.1% | 57 | +0.2 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.1% · e.g. Niche | 5.1% | 48 | +1.2 |
| 7 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.4.5% · e.g. Winterlight Labs | 4.5% | 42 | -0.1 |
| 8 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.3.7% · e.g. MachineMetrics | 3.7% | 35 | +0.1 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.7% · e.g. SparkAI | 3.7% | 35 | +0.2 |
| 10 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.3.2% · e.g. Duolingo | 3.2% | 30 | +0.3 |
| 11 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.2.8% · e.g. Stripe | 2.8% | 26 | -0.8 |
| 12 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.4% · e.g. Winterlight Labs | 2.4% | 23 | -0.6 |
| 13 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.2.1% · an example posting | 2.1% | 20 | +1.4 |
| 14 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.9% · e.g. Uncountable | 1.9% | 18 | -0.3 |
| 15 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.8% · e.g. SparkAI | 1.8% | 17 | -0.1 |
| 16 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.1.8% · e.g. Plato | 1.8% | 17 | +0.5 |
| 17 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.6% · e.g. ABN AMRO | 1.6% | 15 | +0.9 |
| 18 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.1.1% · e.g. Unit 410 | 1.1% | 10 | +1.0 |
| 19 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.70% · e.g. BrightHire | 0.70% | 7 | +0.4 |
| 20 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.50% · e.g. Slido | 0.50% | 5 | +0.5 |
| 21 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.50% · e.g. KeepTruckin | 0.50% | 5 | -0.1 |
| 22 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.50% · e.g. Babylist | 0.50% | 5 | +0.4 |
| 23 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.30% · e.g. Switcher Labs SA | 0.30% | 3 | +0.2 |
| 24 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.30% · e.g. Nightfall AI | 0.30% | 3 | +0.0 |
| 25 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 3 | +0.0 |
| 26 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 3 | -0.1 |
| 27 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.20% · e.g. Topaz Labs | 0.20% | 2 | -0.4 |
| 28 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.20% · e.g. Neural Magic | 0.20% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 29 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.10% · e.g. MethaneSAT | 0.10% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 30 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.10% · an example posting | 0.10% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 31 | AI Product ManagerA product manager for model-powered products, fluent in evals and model behaviour.0.10% · e.g. Neural Magic | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 32 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.10% · e.g. Paige | 0.10% | 1 | -0.6 |