Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, July 2022
523 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 28 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. Gro Intelligence | 16% | 81 | -3.0 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.9.4% · e.g. Samsara | 9.4% | 49 | +0.7 |
| 3 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.6.9% · e.g. Personio | 6.9% | 36 | +1.2 |
| 4 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.5.2% · e.g. Tulip | 5.2% | 27 | -2.2 |
| 5 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.2% · e.g. Loop | 5.2% | 27 | -0.8 |
| 6 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.2% · e.g. CardoAI | 5.2% | 27 | +0.1 |
| 7 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.4.4% · e.g. JustWatch | 4.4% | 23 | -0.2 |
| 8 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.4.2% · e.g. D2iQ | 4.2% | 22 | +1.6 |
| 9 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.4.2% · e.g. Personio | 4.2% | 22 | +1.5 |
| 10 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.3.6% · e.g. D2iQ | 3.6% | 19 | -0.7 |
| 11 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.5% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 2.5% | 13 | -1.0 |
| 12 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.3% · e.g. Adacore | 2.3% | 12 | -0.3 |
| 13 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.9% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 1.9% | 10 | +0.1 |
| 14 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.7% · e.g. OneSignal | 1.7% | 9 | -0.1 |
| 15 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.1% · e.g. - Machine Learning Research Scientist | 1.1% | 6 | +0.9 |
| 16 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.0% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 1.0% | 5 | -1.2 |
| 17 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.0% · e.g. Samsara | 1.0% | 5 | -0.7 |
| 18 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.1.0% · e.g. Claypot AI | 1.0% | 5 | -1.1 |
| 19 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.80% · e.g. Character | 0.80% | 4 | +0.1 |
| 20 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.60% · e.g. Mercury | 0.60% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 21 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.60% · e.g. CourseKey | 0.60% | 3 | -0.3 |
| 22 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.20% · e.g. Motive | 0.20% | 1 | -0.6 |
| 23 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.20% · e.g. Clearcover | 0.20% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 24 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.20% · e.g. - Machine Learning Research Scientist | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 25 | AI Solutions ArchitectDesigns how a customer should use AI models and services, from architecture review to a working proof of concept.0.20% · e.g. Hugging Face | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 26 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.20% · e.g. Lead Web3 Engineer | 0.20% | 1 | -0.4 |
| 27 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.20% · e.g. Tegus | 0.20% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 28 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.20% · e.g. Fundrise | 0.20% | 1 | -0.3 |