Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, August 2023
343 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 32 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. Roboflow | 16% | 56 | -0.5 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.8.2% · e.g. Aha! | 8.2% | 28 | -0.4 |
| 3 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.6.1% · e.g. Crusoe | 6.1% | 21 | +0.7 |
| 4 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.5.0% · e.g. sovity GmbH | 5.0% | 17 | +2.0 |
| 5 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.5.0% · e.g. Crusoe | 5.0% | 17 | -0.7 |
| 6 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.4.7% · e.g. Zattoo | 4.7% | 16 | +0.4 |
| 7 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.4.4% · e.g. OneSignal | 4.4% | 15 | +0.6 |
| 8 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.5% · e.g. AlpacaML | 3.5% | 12 | -0.5 |
| 9 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.2% · e.g. ** Trunk Tools | 3.2% | 11 | -1.1 |
| 10 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.3.2% · e.g. Bright Network | 3.2% | 11 | -1.4 |
| 11 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.2.9% · e.g. Trelent | 2.9% | 10 | +0.5 |
| 12 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.9% · e.g. Evertas Insurance | 2.9% | 10 | +0.2 |
| 13 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.2.3% · e.g. Aha! | 2.3% | 8 | -2.3 |
| 14 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.2.3% · e.g. OneSignal | 2.3% | 8 | +0.6 |
| 15 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.5% · e.g. Roboflow | 1.5% | 5 | +0.2 |
| 16 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.2% · e.g. Zilliz | 1.2% | 4 | -0.7 |
| 17 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.2% · e.g. Zilliz | 1.2% | 4 | -1.0 |
| 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 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.90% · e.g. Bond | 0.90% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 20 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.90% · e.g. Two Six Technologies | 0.90% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 21 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.60% · e.g. shuttle.rs | 0.60% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 22 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.60% · e.g. Oxy | 0.60% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 23 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.60% · e.g. - Machine Learning Research Scientist | 0.60% | 2 | -0.4 |
| 24 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.60% · e.g. trivago | 0.60% | 2 | -0.8 |
| 25 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.60% · e.g. WHOOP | 0.60% | 2 | +0.4 |
| 26 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.30% · e.g. PlantingSpace | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 27 | LLM EngineerAn engineer focused on building with, fine-tuning or serving large language models.0.30% · e.g. ** Trunk Tools | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 28 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.30% · e.g. Resemble AI | 0.30% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 29 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.30% · e.g. - Machine Learning Research Scientist | 0.30% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 30 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.30% · e.g. JCAI Inc. | 0.30% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 31 | Applied AI EngineerTurns frontier models into working products for specific customers or use cases.0.30% · e.g. Rewind | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 32 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.30% · e.g. Sourcegraph | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |