Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, April 2022
742 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 33 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 16% 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.16% · e.g. OneSignal | 16% | 119 | -1.8 |
| 2 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.9.6% · e.g. MachineMetrics | 9.6% | 71 | +3.0 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.8.6% · e.g. Secureframe | 8.6% | 64 | -0.4 |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.7.7% · e.g. MachineMetrics | 7.7% | 57 | +2.3 |
| 5 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.7.1% · e.g. Bold Penguin | 7.1% | 53 | +0.5 |
| 6 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.6.6% · e.g. Stirveworks.us |See Roles Below | 6.6% | 49 | +0.8 |
| 7 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.6.3% · e.g. Runway | 6.3% | 47 | +1.6 |
| 8 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.5.0% · e.g. Citrine Informatics | 5.0% | 37 | +2.3 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.4.0% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 4.0% | 30 | +0.6 |
| 10 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.3.9% · e.g. Findify | 3.9% | 29 | -1.2 |
| 11 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.9% · e.g. Stirveworks.us |See Roles Below | 3.9% | 29 | +0.2 |
| 12 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.3.2% · e.g. Olo | 3.2% | 24 | +0.9 |
| 13 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.2.3% · e.g. Motif Analytics | 2.3% | 17 | +1.6 |
| 14 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.2.2% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 2.2% | 16 | +1.2 |
| 15 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.2.2% · e.g. ML6 | 2.2% | 16 | -0.2 |
| 16 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.5% · e.g. Course Hero | 1.5% | 11 | +0.5 |
| 17 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.1% · e.g. Winterlight Labs | 1.1% | 8 | +0.5 |
| 18 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.1% · e.g. OneSignal | 1.1% | 8 | +0.1 |
| 19 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.90% · e.g. Blue Rabbit | 0.90% | 7 | +0.8 |
| 20 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.80% · e.g. Sourcegraph | 0.80% | 6 | +0.6 |
| 21 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.80% · e.g. Digivault | 0.80% | 6 | +0.3 |
| 22 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.70% · e.g. Forward | 0.70% | 5 | +0.2 |
| 23 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.50% · e.g. Faculty | 0.50% | 4 | +0.5 |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.30% · e.g. Winterlight Labs | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 26 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.30% · e.g. DeepLearning.ai | 0.30% | 2 | -0.4 |
| 27 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.30% · e.g. Mercury | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 28 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.30% · e.g. Affirm | 0.30% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 29 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.10% · e.g. Winterlight Labs | 0.10% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 30 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.10% · e.g. Matroid | 0.10% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 31 | 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. All the info: | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 32 | 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 |
| 33 | AI Product ManagerA product manager for model-powered products, fluent in evals and model behaviour.0.10% · e.g. Intuition Machines, Inc. | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |