Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, April 2023
350 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 27 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 15% 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.15% · e.g. Rune Labs | 15% | 51 | -1.4 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.7.7% · e.g. United States Digital Service | 7.7% | 27 | -0.9 |
| 3 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.7.7% · e.g. Beacon Biosignals | 7.7% | 27 | -1.9 |
| 4 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.6.3% · e.g. United States Digital Service | 6.3% | 22 | -0.8 |
| 5 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.9% · e.g. Aha! | 4.9% | 17 | +1.0 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.3% · e.g. United States Digital Service | 4.3% | 15 | -2.0 |
| 7 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.4.0% · e.g. Replit | 4.0% | 14 | +0.1 |
| 8 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.3.7% · e.g. Replit | 3.7% | 13 | -4.0 |
| 9 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.3.4% · e.g. United States Digital Service | 3.4% | 12 | -3.2 |
| 10 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.4% · e.g. sovity GmbH | 3.4% | 12 | -0.6 |
| 11 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.9% · e.g. United States Digital Service | 2.9% | 10 | -0.3 |
| 12 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.2.6% · e.g. Vivint | 2.6% | 9 | -2.4 |
| 13 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.2.0% · e.g. Deta | 2.0% | 7 | -0.2 |
| 14 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.1.7% · e.g. ShelfCycle | 1.7% | 6 | -0.6 |
| 15 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.90% · e.g. OneSignal | 0.90% | 3 | -0.2 |
| 16 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.90% · e.g. CoinTracker | 0.90% | 3 | -0.6 |
| 17 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.0.90% · e.g. FlutterFlow: | 0.90% | 3 | -1.3 |
| 18 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.60% · e.g. OneSignal | 0.60% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 19 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.60% · e.g. Ironclad | 0.60% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 20 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.60% · e.g. Hotpot.ai | 0.60% | 2 | -0.5 |
| 21 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.60% · e.g. Sourcegraph | 0.60% | 2 | +0.5 |
| 22 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. Plotly | 0.30% | 1 | -0.5 |
| 23 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.30% · e.g. Resemble AI | 0.30% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 24 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.30% · e.g. Graphite | 0.30% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 25 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.30% · e.g. MUI | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 26 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.30% · e.g. Sourcegraph | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 27 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.30% · e.g. Vinted | 0.30% | 1 | -0.6 |