Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, February 2023
436 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 30 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% | 74 | -2.4 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.6.7% · e.g. Secureframe | 6.7% | 29 | -2.5 |
| 3 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.5.0% · e.g. Aha! | 5.0% | 22 | +0.5 |
| 4 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.8% · e.g. Comm | 4.8% | 21 | -1.8 |
| 5 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.4.8% · e.g. TeamSnap | 4.8% | 21 | -5.3 |
| 6 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.4.6% · e.g. SingleStoreDB | 4.6% | 20 | -1.3 |
| 7 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.4.6% · e.g. WattCarbon | 4.6% | 20 | -2.4 |
| 8 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.3.9% · e.g. Samsara | 3.9% | 17 | +0.5 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.7% · e.g. Aha! | 3.7% | 16 | -1.2 |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.4% · e.g. Sudowrite | 3.4% | 15 | -0.5 |
| 11 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.3.2% · e.g. Glassnode | 3.2% | 14 | -1.7 |
| 12 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.2.5% · e.g. Sparkwise | 2.5% | 11 | +1.8 |
| 13 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.3% · e.g. FAIRTIQ | 2.3% | 10 | -0.7 |
| 14 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.2.1% · e.g. Genpax | 2.1% | 9 | +0.1 |
| 15 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.8% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 1.8% | 8 | -0.1 |
| 16 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.8% · e.g. JustWatch | 1.8% | 8 | +0.6 |
| 17 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.6% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 1.6% | 7 | -0.6 |
| 18 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.1.1% · e.g. Secureframe | 1.1% | 5 | +0.5 |
| 19 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.90% · e.g. Alma | 0.90% | 4 | -0.2 |
| 20 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.90% · an example posting | 0.90% | 4 | +0.4 |
| 21 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.70% · e.g. Maddox.ai | 0.70% | 3 | -0.1 |
| 22 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.50% · e.g. Craftwork | 0.50% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 23 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 2 | +0.5 |
| 24 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.50% · e.g. Brave Software | 0.50% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 25 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.50% · e.g. Nuna | 0.50% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 26 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.20% · e.g. Markr | 0.20% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 27 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.20% · e.g. Resemble AI | 0.20% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 28 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.20% · e.g. Two Six Technologies | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 29 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.20% · e.g. Artory | 0.20% | 1 | -0.5 |
| 30 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.20% · e.g. Thermo Fisher Scientific | 0.20% | 1 | +0.1 |