Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, November 2022
524 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 30 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. Secureframe | 16% | 85 | -2.8 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.7.4% · e.g. Secureframe | 7.4% | 39 | -1.3 |
| 3 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.6.5% · e.g. Smartcar | 6.5% | 34 | +1.4 |
| 4 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.5.2% · e.g. Planet | 5.2% | 27 | -1.4 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.2% · e.g. Glassnode | 5.2% | 27 | -0.9 |
| 6 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.4.8% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 4.8% | 25 | +2.0 |
| 7 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.4.8% · e.g. PolicyFly | 4.8% | 25 | -2.8 |
| 8 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.4.6% · e.g. Glassnode | 4.6% | 24 | +0.1 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.4.2% · e.g. Aha! | 4.2% | 22 | +0.5 |
| 10 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.3.8% · e.g. JitJatJo Global: | 3.8% | 20 | +0.1 |
| 11 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.3.6% · e.g. Materialize | 3.6% | 19 | +0.4 |
| 12 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.6% · e.g. Meliora Therapeutics | 3.6% | 19 | +1.2 |
| 13 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.3.4% · e.g. Appear | 3.4% | 18 | +1.6 |
| 14 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.2.5% · e.g. OneSignal | 2.5% | 13 | +0.6 |
| 15 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.7% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 1.7% | 9 | -0.4 |
| 16 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.5% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 1.5% | 8 | -0.3 |
| 17 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.5% · e.g. - Machine Learning Research Scientist | 1.5% | 8 | +1.0 |
| 18 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.1.3% · e.g. Secureframe | 1.3% | 7 | +1.0 |
| 19 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.1.1% · e.g. Ava Accessibility | 1.1% | 6 | +0.9 |
| 20 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.0% · e.g. Sibi | 1.0% | 5 | -0.6 |
| 21 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.60% · e.g. - Machine Learning Research Scientist | 0.60% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 22 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.60% · e.g. Clearcover | 0.60% | 3 | +0.1 |
| 23 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.60% · e.g. Canvas | 0.60% | 3 | +0.1 |
| 24 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.40% · e.g. Beacon AI | 0.40% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 25 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.40% · e.g. Nuna | 0.40% | 2 | -0.3 |
| 26 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 27 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.20% · e.g. Spatial | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 28 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.20% · e.g. Draup | 0.20% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 29 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | -0.9 |
| 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.0.20% · e.g. SHOWRUNNER | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |