Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, March 2022
784 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 30 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. Novoic | 18% | 141 | -3.1 |
| 2 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.9.6% · e.g. Codecov | 9.6% | 75 | +2.7 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.9.3% · e.g. Runway | 9.3% | 73 | +1.2 |
| 4 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.6.9% · e.g. Bold Penguin | 6.9% | 54 | +1.5 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.6.8% · e.g. MachineMetrics | 6.8% | 53 | +0.7 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.7% · e.g. Runway | 5.7% | 45 | +1.4 |
| 7 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.5% · e.g. Smartlane | 5.5% | 43 | +0.4 |
| 8 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.4.1% · e.g. Aha! | 4.1% | 32 | +0.5 |
| 9 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.8% · an example posting | 3.8% | 30 | +0.9 |
| 10 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.3.6% · e.g. FingerprintJS | 3.6% | 28 | +0.8 |
| 11 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.3.6% · e.g. Spare | 3.6% | 28 | +0.4 |
| 12 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.3.4% · e.g. syllable.ai | 3.4% | 27 | -2.0 |
| 13 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.2.2% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 2.2% | 17 | +1.4 |
| 14 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.8% · e.g. Fasulye | 1.8% | 14 | +0.5 |
| 15 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.1.4% · e.g. Clearcover | 1.4% | 11 | +1.2 |
| 16 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.1.3% · e.g. Meticulous | 1.3% | 10 | +0.5 |
| 17 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.1% · e.g. Paperless Parts | 1.1% | 9 | -1.3 |
| 18 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.0% · e.g. Course Hero | 1.0% | 8 | -0.3 |
| 19 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.1.0% · an example posting | 1.0% | 8 | +0.2 |
| 20 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.90% · e.g. Street Contxt | 0.90% | 7 | +0.6 |
| 21 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.60% · e.g. Amyris | 0.60% | 5 | -0.1 |
| 22 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.40% · e.g. KeepTruckin | 0.40% | 3 | -0.3 |
| 23 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.40% · e.g. Orkes | 0.40% | 3 | +0.1 |
| 24 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.40% · e.g. Slido | 0.40% | 3 | -0.2 |
| 25 | 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.0.30% · e.g. Baseten | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 26 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.30% · e.g. Kensho Technologies | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 27 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.30% · e.g. Generally Intelligent | 0.30% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 28 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.10% · an example posting | 0.10% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 29 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.10% · e.g. Kensho Technologies | 0.10% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 30 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.10% · e.g. Warby Parker | 0.10% | 1 | -0.1 |