Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, June 2022
722 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 31 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% · an example posting | 16% | 115 | -4.6 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.8.3% · e.g. CodexDF | 8.3% | 60 | -0.7 |
| 3 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.7.9% · e.g. Bonterra | 7.9% | 57 | +1.4 |
| 4 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.7.1% · e.g. F5 / Threat Stack | 7.1% | 51 | +0.1 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.6.2% · an example posting | 6.2% | 45 | +0.1 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.6.0% · e.g. Ria Health | 6.0% | 43 | +0.6 |
| 7 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.4% · e.g. Bold Penguin | 5.4% | 39 | +0.8 |
| 8 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.7% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 3.7% | 27 | -0.1 |
| 9 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.3.6% · e.g. CodexDF | 3.6% | 26 | -0.6 |
| 10 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.3.3% · e.g. Vivint | 3.3% | 24 | -0.3 |
| 11 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.2% · e.g. Reverie Labs | 3.2% | 23 | +0.7 |
| 12 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.9% · e.g. DuckDuckGo | 2.9% | 21 | +1.1 |
| 13 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.9% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 1.9% | 14 | +0.7 |
| 14 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.1.5% · e.g. Turnstile | 1.5% | 11 | +0.3 |
| 15 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.4% · e.g. PlayStation | 1.4% | 10 | +0.3 |
| 16 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.4% · e.g. OneSignal | 1.4% | 10 | +0.2 |
| 17 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.2% · e.g. Codecov | 1.2% | 9 | -1.1 |
| 18 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.1.0% · e.g. CodexDF | 1.0% | 7 | +0.3 |
| 19 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.1.0% · e.g. Luminance | 1.0% | 7 | +0.5 |
| 20 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.70% · e.g. Genesis Therapeutics | 0.70% | 5 | +0.4 |
| 21 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.40% · e.g. Sony ISDC | 0.40% | 3 | +0.0 |
| 22 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.30% · e.g. Motive | 0.30% | 2 | -0.4 |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.30% · e.g. Faire | 0.30% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 25 | AI Solutions ArchitectDesigns how a customer should use AI models and services, from architecture review to a working proof of concept.0.30% · e.g. Roboflow | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 26 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.30% · e.g. Credit Karma | 0.30% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 27 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.30% · e.g. Affirm | 0.30% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 28 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 29 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.10% · e.g. Embraer | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 30 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.10% · e.g. Fundrise | 0.10% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 31 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.10% · e.g. Logic20/20 | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |