Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, June 2023
331 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 29 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. ** Trunk Tools | 15% | 49 | -1.1 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.8.2% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 8.2% | 27 | -0.1 |
| 3 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.5.4% · e.g. sovity GmbH | 5.4% | 18 | +1.7 |
| 4 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.5.4% · e.g. Iris | 5.4% | 18 | +2.1 |
| 5 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.5.1% · e.g. SingleStoreDB | 5.1% | 17 | -2.0 |
| 6 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.4.5% · e.g. Beacon AI | 4.5% | 15 | -0.9 |
| 7 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.4.5% · e.g. Sourcegraph | 4.5% | 15 | -3.4 |
| 8 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.2% · e.g. OpenRent | 4.2% | 14 | +0.6 |
| 9 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.9% · e.g. ** Trunk Tools | 3.9% | 13 | -2.1 |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.9% · e.g. Beacon AI | 3.9% | 13 | +0.7 |
| 11 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.3.6% · e.g. Replit | 3.6% | 12 | -2.6 |
| 12 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.3.6% · e.g. Replit | 3.6% | 12 | +0.7 |
| 13 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.2.4% · e.g. Deta | 2.4% | 8 | +0.5 |
| 14 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.2.1% · e.g. Pebble | 2.1% | 7 | +0.7 |
| 15 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.2.1% · e.g. Railway | 2.1% | 7 | +0.9 |
| 16 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.1.8% · e.g. Stainless | 1.8% | 6 | +0.3 |
| 17 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.2% · e.g. Cosuno | 1.2% | 4 | -0.2 |
| 18 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.90% · e.g. Beacon AI | 0.90% | 3 | +0.6 |
| 19 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.90% · an example posting | 0.90% | 3 | +0.5 |
| 20 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.60% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 0.60% | 2 | -0.4 |
| 21 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.60% · e.g. FAIRTIQ | 0.60% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 22 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.30% · e.g. Sourcegraph | 0.30% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 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 | +0.0 |
| 25 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.30% · e.g. Resemble AI | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 26 | 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. Jane | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 27 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 28 | LLM EngineerAn engineer focused on building with, fine-tuning or serving large language models.0.30% · e.g. Develop Health | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 29 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.30% · e.g. Matician | 0.30% | 1 | -0.7 |