Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, September 2022
503 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 28 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 17% 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.17% · e.g. Secureframe | 17% | 84 | -2.9 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.6.2% · e.g. Secureframe | 6.2% | 31 | -3.0 |
| 3 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.6.0% · e.g. BuildBuddy | 6.0% | 30 | -1.3 |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.2% · e.g. Depict.ai | 5.2% | 26 | -1.4 |
| 5 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.0% · e.g. JustWatch | 5.0% | 25 | -0.8 |
| 6 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.5.0% · e.g. CaptivateIQ | 5.0% | 25 | -3.4 |
| 7 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.4.0% · e.g. Vivint | 4.0% | 20 | +1.0 |
| 8 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.8% · e.g. Vivint | 3.8% | 19 | -2.3 |
| 9 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.8% · e.g. AppLovin | 3.8% | 19 | +0.2 |
| 10 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.4% · e.g. Depict.ai | 3.4% | 17 | +0.5 |
| 11 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.3.2% · e.g. DuckDuckGo | 3.2% | 16 | +0.4 |
| 12 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.2.6% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 2.6% | 13 | +0.9 |
| 13 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.2.6% · e.g. Aha! | 2.6% | 13 | -1.9 |
| 14 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.2.4% · e.g. Stir | 2.4% | 12 | +1.1 |
| 15 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.2.2% · e.g. Appear | 2.2% | 11 | +1.2 |
| 16 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.2.0% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 2.0% | 10 | +0.4 |
| 17 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.4% · an example posting | 1.4% | 7 | +1.1 |
| 18 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.2% · e.g. Samsara | 1.2% | 6 | +0.1 |
| 19 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.60% · e.g. Fingerprint | 0.60% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 20 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.60% · e.g. Airbnb | 0.60% | 3 | +0.6 |
| 21 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.40% · e.g. Beacon AI | 0.40% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 22 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.40% · e.g. SMART CONTRACT DEVELOPER WANTED | 0.40% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 23 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.40% · e.g. Select Star | 0.40% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 24 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.40% · e.g. Nuna | 0.40% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 25 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 2 | +0.4 |
| 26 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.40% · e.g. - Machine Learning Research Scientist | 0.40% | 2 | -0.4 |
| 27 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.20% · e.g. Occipital | 0.20% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 28 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.20% · e.g. Absci | 0.20% | 1 | -0.4 |