Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, January 2024
275 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 26 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 15% 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.15% · e.g. Uncountable | 15% | 41 | -3.1 |
| 2 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.7.3% · e.g. Elsewhere | 7.3% | 20 | +4.3 |
| 3 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.6.9% · e.g. Continua AI | 6.9% | 19 | +3.9 |
| 4 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.5.8% · e.g. Aha! | 5.8% | 16 | +3.0 |
| 5 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.5.5% · e.g. Sanctuary Computer | 5.5% | 15 | +0.3 |
| 6 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.4.7% · e.g. MUI | 4.7% | 13 | +3.0 |
| 7 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.4.7% · e.g. Plotly | 4.7% | 13 | +0.3 |
| 8 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.4.7% · e.g. Global Biodiversity Information Facility | 4.7% | 13 | -1.1 |
| 9 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.4.4% · e.g. Aha! | 4.4% | 12 | -2.5 |
| 10 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.4.4% · e.g. Renaissance Learning | 4.4% | 12 | +1.6 |
| 11 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.3.6% · e.g. Aha! | 3.6% | 10 | -1.9 |
| 12 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.6% · e.g. SmarterDx | 3.6% | 10 | -2.2 |
| 13 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.3.3% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 3.3% | 9 | +0.8 |
| 14 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.2.9% · e.g. 8flow.ai | 2.9% | 8 | -0.4 |
| 15 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.1.8% · e.g. Beacon AI | 1.8% | 5 | +1.5 |
| 16 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.8% · e.g. EnergyHub | 1.8% | 5 | -1.5 |
| 17 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.8% · e.g. Inceptive | 1.8% | 5 | +0.7 |
| 18 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.1% · e.g. MUI | 1.1% | 3 | -1.1 |
| 19 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.1% · e.g. EnergyHub | 1.1% | 3 | +0.0 |
| 20 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.70% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 0.70% | 2 | +0.4 |
| 21 | AI Solutions ArchitectDesigns how a customer should use AI models and services, from architecture review to a working proof of concept.0.70% · e.g. Contextual AI | 0.70% | 2 | +0.7 |
| 22 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.70% · e.g. Obelisk AGI lab, Astera Institute | 0.70% | 2 | +0.7 |
| 23 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.40% · e.g. PlantingSpace | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |
| 24 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.40% · e.g. Intuition Machines, Inc. | 0.40% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 25 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 26 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.40% · e.g. Backblaze | 0.40% | 1 | -1.0 |