Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, December 2022
479 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 30 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% · e.g. Secureframe | 18% | 85 | -2.9 |
| 2 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.8.1% · e.g. Comm | 8.1% | 39 | -0.3 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.7.5% · e.g. Secureframe | 7.5% | 36 | -1.5 |
| 4 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.5.4% · e.g. CareRev | 5.4% | 26 | -4.8 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.4% · e.g. DTE | 5.4% | 26 | -1.1 |
| 6 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.5.2% · e.g. Aha! | 5.2% | 25 | +1.8 |
| 7 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.2% · e.g. Smartcar | 5.2% | 25 | +0.9 |
| 8 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.5.2% · e.g. DTE | 5.2% | 25 | +1.3 |
| 9 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.4.8% · e.g. MethaneSAT | 4.8% | 23 | -2.0 |
| 10 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.0% · e.g. Aha! | 4.0% | 19 | -1.7 |
| 11 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.3.8% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 3.8% | 18 | -1.2 |
| 12 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.3.1% · e.g. Adacore | 3.1% | 15 | -0.2 |
| 13 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.2.7% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 2.7% | 13 | +0.4 |
| 14 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.2.3% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 2.3% | 11 | +0.3 |
| 15 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.2.3% · e.g. Appear | 2.3% | 11 | +0.9 |
| 16 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.9% · e.g. Sunscreen | 1.9% | 9 | +0.1 |
| 17 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.7% · e.g. JitJatJo Global: | 1.7% | 8 | +0.2 |
| 18 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.0% · e.g. - Machine Learning Research Scientist | 1.0% | 5 | +0.3 |
| 19 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.80% · e.g. DFINITY | 0.80% | 4 | +0.1 |
| 20 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.80% · e.g. - Machine Learning Research Scientist | 0.80% | 4 | +0.4 |
| 21 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.80% · e.g. OneSignal | 0.80% | 4 | -0.3 |
| 22 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.80% · e.g. CipherTrace, a Mastercard Company | 0.80% | 4 | -0.1 |
| 23 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.60% · e.g. Secureframe | 0.60% | 3 | +0.1 |
| 24 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.40% · e.g. PlantingSpace | 0.40% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 25 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.40% · e.g. inlang | 0.40% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 26 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.40% · e.g. Canvas | 0.40% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 27 | 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. Nuna | 0.40% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 28 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 29 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.20% · e.g. Beacon AI | 0.20% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 30 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.20% · e.g. ISEE AI | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |