Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, July 2023
306 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 26 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 16% 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.16% · e.g. Shortform | 16% | 49 | +0.5 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.5.6% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 5.6% | 17 | -3.8 |
| 3 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.4.9% · e.g. Advicerco. | 4.9% | 15 | +0.7 |
| 4 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.4.9% · e.g. Oso | 4.9% | 15 | -2.0 |
| 5 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.4.9% · e.g. Bytedance | 4.9% | 15 | -0.3 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.9% · e.g. Railway | 4.9% | 15 | -0.3 |
| 7 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.4.9% · e.g. nZero | 4.9% | 15 | +0.5 |
| 8 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.4.2% · e.g. ML6 | 4.2% | 13 | +0.0 |
| 9 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.3.6% · e.g. Evertas Insurance | 3.6% | 11 | +1.3 |
| 10 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.3% · e.g. lowRISC | 3.3% | 10 | +0.8 |
| 11 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.3.3% · e.g. StatsBomb | 3.3% | 10 | -1.9 |
| 12 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.2.9% · e.g. Sirch. | 2.9% | 9 | +2.9 |
| 13 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.2.6% · e.g. CrazyGames | 2.6% | 8 | +0.9 |
| 14 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.2.3% · e.g. Fictive Reality | 2.3% | 7 | +1.3 |
| 15 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.6% · e.g. Lago | 1.6% | 5 | -0.3 |
| 16 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.1.6% · e.g. OpenRent | 1.6% | 5 | -2.0 |
| 17 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.1.3% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 1.3% | 4 | +0.7 |
| 18 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.3% · e.g. Railway | 1.3% | 4 | +0.3 |
| 19 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.3% · e.g. Griz Tech | 1.3% | 4 | +0.2 |
| 20 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.0% · e.g. trivago | 1.0% | 3 | +0.0 |
| 21 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.70% · e.g. Roboflow | 0.70% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 22 | LLM EngineerAn engineer focused on building with, fine-tuning or serving large language models.0.30% · e.g. Connectly | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 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 | +0.3 |
| 24 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.30% · e.g. Sourcegraph | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.30% · e.g. Two Six Technologies | 0.30% | 1 | -0.3 |