Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, February 2024
339 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 28 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 17% 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.17% · e.g. Roboflow | 17% | 58 | +0.1 |
| 2 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.8.0% · e.g. Jam.dev | 8.0% | 27 | +4.1 |
| 3 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.6.5% · e.g. ISO | 6.5% | 22 | +4.0 |
| 4 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.5.0% · e.g. Snowflake | 5.0% | 17 | +0.2 |
| 5 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.4.7% · e.g. Aha! | 4.7% | 16 | +1.0 |
| 6 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.4.7% · e.g. Continua AI | 4.7% | 16 | +1.3 |
| 7 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.4.4% · e.g. Aha! | 4.4% | 15 | -2.3 |
| 8 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.3.8% · e.g. Jam.dev | 3.8% | 13 | +1.7 |
| 9 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.3.5% · e.g. HumanSignal | 3.5% | 12 | +0.3 |
| 10 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.5% · e.g. Tenzir | 3.5% | 12 | -1.3 |
| 11 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.2.9% · e.g. ML6 | 2.9% | 10 | -1.7 |
| 12 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.2.7% · e.g. Aha! | 2.7% | 9 | -2.3 |
| 13 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.2.7% · an example posting | 2.7% | 9 | +1.1 |
| 14 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.2.4% · e.g. Qdrant | 2.4% | 8 | -2.2 |
| 15 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.8% · e.g. Tenzir | 1.8% | 6 | +0.0 |
| 16 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.8% · e.g. Olo | 1.8% | 6 | -0.5 |
| 17 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.5% · e.g. Smartcar | 1.5% | 5 | -0.3 |
| 18 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.1.5% · e.g. Edge Impulse | 1.5% | 5 | +0.4 |
| 19 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.1.2% · e.g. Mio AI | 1.2% | 4 | +0.7 |
| 20 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.90% · e.g. Roboflow | 0.90% | 3 | +0.2 |
| 21 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.90% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 0.90% | 3 | +0.7 |
| 22 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.60% · e.g. Stryker | 0.60% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 23 | 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. ThreeFlow | 0.60% | 2 | -0.3 |
| 24 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.60% · e.g. Jito Labs | 0.60% | 2 | +0.4 |
| 25 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.30% · e.g. PlantingSpace | 0.30% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 26 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.30% · e.g. Blitz.gg | 0.30% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 27 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.30% · e.g. Procurify | 0.30% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 28 | 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. Actively | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |