Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, September 2023
295 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 28 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 19% 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.19% · e.g. OpenRent | 19% | 55 | +1.9 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.8.1% · e.g. Aha! | 8.1% | 24 | +1.9 |
| 3 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.6.4% · e.g. ** Trunk Tools | 6.4% | 19 | +2.6 |
| 4 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.5.4% · e.g. SingleStoreDB | 5.4% | 16 | -0.6 |
| 5 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.5.1% · e.g. PlaytestCloud | 5.1% | 15 | +1.1 |
| 6 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.5.1% · e.g. Solar Monkey | 5.1% | 15 | +0.1 |
| 7 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.4.4% · e.g. Viator | 4.4% | 13 | -0.8 |
| 8 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.4% · e.g. SOAR Energy Inc. | 4.4% | 13 | +0.6 |
| 9 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.3.7% · an example posting | 3.7% | 11 | +1.3 |
| 10 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.3.7% · e.g. Koddi | 3.7% | 11 | -1.3 |
| 11 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.4% · e.g. Aha! | 3.4% | 10 | +0.0 |
| 12 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.3.1% · e.g. OpenRent | 3.1% | 9 | +0.5 |
| 13 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.3.1% · e.g. Scale AI | 3.1% | 9 | +0.9 |
| 14 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.4% · e.g. Mattermost | 2.4% | 7 | -0.8 |
| 15 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.2.0% · e.g. QUOBYTE Engineering | 2.0% | 6 | -0.6 |
| 16 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.2.0% · e.g. Doppler | 2.0% | 6 | +0.0 |
| 17 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.7% · e.g. Roboflow | 1.7% | 5 | +0.3 |
| 18 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.1.4% · e.g. Rewind | 1.4% | 4 | +1.0 |
| 19 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.1.0% · e.g. Ascertain | 1.0% | 3 | +1.0 |
| 20 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.1.0% · e.g. Bond | 1.0% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 21 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.70% · e.g. Osmo | 0.70% | 2 | -0.5 |
| 22 | Applied AI EngineerTurns frontier models into working products for specific customers or use cases.0.30% · e.g. Rewind | 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 | +0.1 |
| 24 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.30% · e.g. PixLab | 0.30% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 25 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.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. knowd.ai | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 27 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.30% · e.g. Vinted | 0.30% | 1 | -0.3 |
| 28 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.30% · e.g. Backblaze | 0.30% | 1 | -0.1 |