Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, March 2023
405 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 30 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 19% 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.19% · e.g. Bonterra | 19% | 76 | +0.8 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.7.7% · e.g. Aha! | 7.7% | 31 | -1.6 |
| 3 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.9% · e.g. Comm | 5.9% | 24 | +0.2 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.9% · e.g. Aha! | 4.9% | 20 | +1.5 |
| 5 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.4.7% · e.g. PlantingSpace | 4.7% | 19 | -2.2 |
| 6 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.4.4% · e.g. Bodyport | 4.4% | 18 | -2.4 |
| 7 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.4.2% · e.g. Metabase | 4.2% | 17 | -5.4 |
| 8 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.4.0% · e.g. Aha! | 4.0% | 16 | -0.1 |
| 9 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.4.0% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 4.0% | 16 | +0.4 |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.7% · e.g. AlpacaML | 3.7% | 15 | -0.1 |
| 11 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.3.2% · e.g. United States Digital Service | 3.2% | 13 | -0.4 |
| 12 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.3.2% · e.g. Founding Full Stack Engineer | 3.2% | 13 | +1.9 |
| 13 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.3.0% · e.g. United States Digital Service | 3.0% | 12 | -2.5 |
| 14 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.2.5% · e.g. OneSignal | 2.5% | 10 | +0.7 |
| 15 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.2% · e.g. Deta | 1.2% | 5 | -1.0 |
| 16 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.0% · e.g. Metabase | 1.0% | 4 | +0.0 |
| 17 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.0% · e.g. Antithesis | 1.0% | 4 | +0.4 |
| 18 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.70% · e.g. shuttle.rs | 0.70% | 3 | -0.2 |
| 19 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.50% · e.g. OneSignal | 0.50% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 20 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.0.50% · e.g. hx | 0.50% | 2 | -0.6 |
| 21 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.50% · e.g. Skydio | 0.50% | 2 | +0.5 |
| 22 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.50% · e.g. Shipyard | 0.50% | 2 | -0.9 |
| 23 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.50% · e.g. Sourcegraph | 0.50% | 2 | +0.4 |
| 24 | LLM EngineerAn engineer focused on building with, fine-tuning or serving large language models.0.20% · e.g. Flyx AI | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 25 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.20% · e.g. Skydio | 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. IndiGG | 0.20% | 1 | -0.8 |
| 27 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.20% · e.g. Canvas | 0.20% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 28 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.20% · e.g. Nuna | 0.20% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 29 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.20% · e.g. Sourcegraph | 0.20% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 30 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.20% · e.g. Two Six Technologies | 0.20% | 1 | -0.2 |