Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, May 2022
755 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 33 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% · an example posting | 18% | 135 | -2.1 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.8.7% · e.g. Vaayu | 8.7% | 66 | +0.6 |
| 3 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.7.8% · e.g. Dashlane | 7.8% | 59 | +0.8 |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.6.9% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 6.9% | 52 | +1.3 |
| 5 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.6.6% · e.g. Vaayu | 6.6% | 50 | -1.1 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.6.1% · e.g. OtterTune | 6.1% | 46 | +1.1 |
| 7 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.4.9% · an example posting | 4.9% | 37 | -0.9 |
| 8 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.4.9% · e.g. Stack Overflow | 4.9% | 37 | +2.3 |
| 9 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.8% · e.g. Aha! | 4.8% | 36 | +0.3 |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.4.1% · e.g. BrightHire | 4.1% | 31 | +1.7 |
| 11 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.3% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 3.3% | 25 | -1.6 |
| 12 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.2.8% · e.g. Hardfin | 2.8% | 21 | +0.9 |
| 13 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.2.5% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 2.5% | 19 | +1.2 |
| 14 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.4% · e.g. Transportant | 2.4% | 18 | -0.1 |
| 15 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.7% · e.g. OtterTune | 1.7% | 13 | -0.7 |
| 16 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.7% · e.g. PlayStation | 1.7% | 13 | +0.9 |
| 17 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.5% · e.g. Uncountable | 1.5% | 11 | -0.2 |
| 18 | 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. Clearcover | 0.90% | 7 | +0.8 |
| 19 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.80% · e.g. Vaayu | 0.80% | 6 | +0.1 |
| 20 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.70% · e.g. Arabesque | 0.70% | 5 | +0.6 |
| 21 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.50% · e.g. Amyris | 0.50% | 4 | +0.1 |
| 22 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.50% · e.g. TigerConnect | 0.50% | 4 | +0.0 |
| 23 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.50% · e.g. hyperspace | 0.50% | 4 | +0.0 |
| 24 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.40% · e.g. Reliable Robotics | 0.40% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 25 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.30% · e.g. Top Fortune 500 Company | 0.30% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 26 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.30% · e.g. - Machine Learning Research Scientist | 0.30% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 27 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.10% · e.g. Matician | 0.10% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 28 | Chief Data OfficerThe executive who owns data governance, quality and analytics.0.10% · e.g. BeZero Carbon | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 29 | AI Solutions ArchitectDesigns how a customer should use AI models and services, from architecture review to a working proof of concept.0.10% · e.g. Hugging Face | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 30 | 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. SHOWRUNNER | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 31 | 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 |
| 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 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.10% · e.g. Vivid Machines | 0.10% | 1 | -0.1 |