Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, May 2023
342 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 31 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 14% 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.14% · e.g. What: Jam.dev | 14% | 46 | -4.4 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.8.5% · e.g. Aha! | 8.5% | 29 | -0.2 |
| 3 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.6.1% · e.g. United States Digital Service | 6.1% | 21 | -0.5 |
| 4 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.5.6% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 5.6% | 19 | +0.7 |
| 5 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.0% · e.g. United States Digital Service | 5.0% | 17 | -1.1 |
| 6 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.7% · e.g. Aha! | 4.7% | 16 | -0.1 |
| 7 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.4.1% · e.g. Chainlink Labs | 4.1% | 14 | -3.7 |
| 8 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.4.1% · e.g. Replit | 4.1% | 14 | +0.0 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.5% · e.g. Aha! | 3.5% | 12 | +0.2 |
| 10 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.3.2% · e.g. United States Digital Service | 3.2% | 11 | +0.8 |
| 11 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.3.2% · e.g. Replit | 3.2% | 11 | -3.7 |
| 12 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.2.6% · e.g. United States Digital Service | 2.6% | 9 | -2.3 |
| 13 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.2.3% · e.g. Sourcegraph | 2.3% | 8 | -0.2 |
| 14 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.1.8% · e.g. Windmill | 1.8% | 6 | -1.0 |
| 15 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.1.5% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 1.5% | 5 | +0.7 |
| 16 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.2% · e.g. Metabase | 1.2% | 4 | -0.5 |
| 17 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.90% · e.g. Upwave | 0.90% | 3 | -0.6 |
| 18 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.60% · e.g. ZeroTier | 0.60% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 19 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.60% · e.g. Kensho Technologies | 0.60% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 20 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.60% · e.g. Nova Credit | 0.60% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 21 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.0.60% · e.g. SoftIron | 0.60% | 2 | -1.1 |
| 22 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.30% · e.g. Sourcegraph | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 23 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.30% · e.g. Sourcegraph | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 24 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.30% · e.g. Canvas | 0.30% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 25 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.30% · e.g. Stanford CRFM | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.30% · e.g. deepc | 0.30% | 1 | -0.4 |
| 28 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.30% · e.g. Artory | 0.30% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 29 | AI Solutions ArchitectDesigns how a customer should use AI models and services, from architecture review to a working proof of concept.0.30% · e.g. Iterative.ai | 0.30% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 30 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | -0.6 |
| 31 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.30% · e.g. Magic | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |