Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, November 2023
361 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 31 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. martini.ai | 16% | 57 | -0.4 |
| 2 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.6.1% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 6.1% | 22 | +1.3 |
| 3 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.6.1% · e.g. Flint Clinical | 6.1% | 22 | +2.7 |
| 4 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.5.8% · e.g. Solar Monkey | 5.8% | 21 | +1.0 |
| 5 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.5.3% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 5.3% | 19 | -2.1 |
| 6 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.5.3% · e.g. Aha! | 5.3% | 19 | +1.1 |
| 7 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.4.4% · e.g. ML6 | 4.4% | 16 | -0.8 |
| 8 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.4.2% · e.g. martini.ai | 4.2% | 15 | +0.6 |
| 9 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.3.0% · e.g. Phileas Energy | 3.0% | 11 | -1.6 |
| 10 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.0% · e.g. Owner.com | 3.0% | 11 | -3.5 |
| 11 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.3.0% · e.g. ProPublica | 3.0% | 11 | +0.5 |
| 12 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.2.5% · e.g. PlantingSpace | 2.5% | 9 | -1.3 |
| 13 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.2.2% · e.g. Waitwhile | 2.2% | 8 | +0.7 |
| 14 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.2.2% · e.g. DuckDuckGo | 2.2% | 8 | -3.0 |
| 15 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.9% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 1.9% | 7 | +0.2 |
| 16 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.1.9% · e.g. Beacon AI | 1.9% | 7 | +1.5 |
| 17 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.9% · e.g. Horizon3.ai | 1.9% | 7 | -1.7 |
| 18 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.1.1% · e.g. Two Six Technologies | 1.1% | 4 | +0.9 |
| 19 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.1.1% · e.g. Descript | 1.1% | 4 | +0.5 |
| 20 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.80% · e.g. Inceptive | 0.80% | 3 | -0.7 |
| 21 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.80% · e.g. Horizon3.ai | 0.80% | 3 | -0.5 |
| 22 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.60% · an example posting | 0.60% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 23 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.60% · e.g. Sourcegraph | 0.60% | 2 | +0.6 |
| 24 | AI Solutions ArchitectDesigns how a customer should use AI models and services, from architecture review to a working proof of concept.0.30% · e.g. Contextual AI | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 25 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.30% · e.g. Alation | 0.30% | 1 | -0.8 |
| 26 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.30% · e.g. Descript | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 27 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.30% · e.g. Unit 410 | 0.30% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 28 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.30% · e.g. MotherDuck | 0.30% | 1 | -0.7 |
| 29 | Forward Deployed EngineerAn engineer who ships software inside a customer's environment, part builder and part consultant; Palantir coined it, AI labs made it common.0.30% · e.g. LocalStack | 0.30% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 30 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.30% · e.g. EmergeX | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 31 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | -0.3 |