Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, October 2023
321 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 28 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. Storyworth | 14% | 46 | -3.3 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.6.5% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 6.5% | 21 | -2.1 |
| 3 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.5.9% · e.g. Contra | 5.9% | 19 | +0.6 |
| 4 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.5.3% · e.g. Inceptive | 5.3% | 17 | +1.6 |
| 5 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.5.3% · e.g. Okra | 5.3% | 17 | -1.7 |
| 6 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.4.4% · e.g. ML6 | 4.4% | 14 | -0.9 |
| 7 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.0% · e.g. Okra | 4.0% | 13 | +0.5 |
| 8 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.7% · e.g. Cogram | 3.7% | 12 | +0.2 |
| 9 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.3.7% · e.g. Bold Penguin | 3.7% | 12 | -0.9 |
| 10 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.3.4% · e.g. Faktory.com | 3.4% | 11 | +0.8 |
| 11 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.2.5% · e.g. Chestnut | 2.5% | 8 | +0.3 |
| 12 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.9% · e.g. Storyworth | 1.9% | 6 | -0.3 |
| 13 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.9% · e.g. Stream | 1.9% | 6 | +0.6 |
| 14 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.6% · e.g. Inceptive | 1.6% | 5 | +0.5 |
| 15 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.6% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 1.6% | 5 | -0.2 |
| 16 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.1.2% · e.g. PlaytestCloud | 1.2% | 4 | -4.7 |
| 17 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.1.2% · e.g. Beacon AI | 1.2% | 4 | +0.5 |
| 18 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.2% · e.g. SpaceX | 1.2% | 4 | -2.5 |
| 19 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.90% · e.g. LeaseQuery | 0.90% | 3 | +0.7 |
| 20 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.60% · e.g. Samsara | 0.60% | 2 | +0.6 |
| 21 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.60% · e.g. Cognii | 0.60% | 2 | +0.6 |
| 22 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.60% · e.g. Company: Helm.ai. https://www.helm.ai/ . | 0.60% | 2 | +0.4 |
| 23 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. Plotly | 0.30% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.30% · e.g. CredCore | 0.30% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 26 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.30% · e.g. Supabase | 0.30% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 27 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.30% · e.g. Overmind.xyz | 0.30% | 1 | -0.4 |
| 28 | Applied AI EngineerTurns frontier models into working products for specific customers or use cases.0.30% · e.g. Rewind | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |