Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, April 2024
288 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 29 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. Quatt.io | 19% | 54 | +4.2 |
| 2 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.6.3% · e.g. Aha! | 6.3% | 18 | +2.9 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.5.9% · e.g. Snout | 5.9% | 17 | -1.8 |
| 4 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.5.6% · e.g. Snout | 5.6% | 16 | +3.0 |
| 5 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.5.2% · e.g. Plotly | 5.2% | 15 | -2.5 |
| 6 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.5.2% · e.g. SmarterDx | 5.2% | 15 | +1.2 |
| 7 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.4.9% · e.g. Flint Clinical | 4.9% | 14 | +3.2 |
| 8 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.4.9% · an example posting | 4.9% | 14 | +4.0 |
| 9 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.2.8% · an example posting | 2.8% | 8 | -0.9 |
| 10 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.2.8% · e.g. Orb | 2.8% | 8 | -3.5 |
| 11 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.2.4% · e.g. Plotly | 2.4% | 7 | -1.9 |
| 12 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.2.4% · e.g. Speakeasy | 2.4% | 7 | +0.4 |
| 13 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.2.1% · e.g. Aha! | 2.1% | 6 | -2.8 |
| 14 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.2.1% · e.g. Riffusion | 2.1% | 6 | +1.5 |
| 15 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.1% · e.g. SpaceX | 2.1% | 6 | -0.8 |
| 16 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.1.7% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 1.7% | 5 | +1.4 |
| 17 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.1.7% · e.g. SmarterDx | 1.7% | 5 | -1.7 |
| 18 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.7% · e.g. SmarterDx | 1.7% | 5 | +0.8 |
| 19 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.1.7% · e.g. Replit | 1.7% | 5 | +1.1 |
| 20 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.1.4% · an example posting | 1.4% | 4 | +1.4 |
| 21 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.70% · e.g. Riffusion | 0.70% | 2 | +0.7 |
| 22 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.70% · e.g. Graphistry / Louie.AI | 0.70% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 23 | LLM EngineerAn engineer focused on building with, fine-tuning or serving large language models.0.70% · e.g. Ntropy | 0.70% | 2 | +0.7 |
| 24 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.70% · e.g. Seen Finance | 0.70% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 25 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.70% · e.g. DuckDuckGo | 0.70% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 26 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.70% · an example posting | 0.70% | 2 | +0.4 |
| 27 | Prompt EngineerWrites and tests the instructions given to language models; the 2023 breakout title.0.30% · e.g. Faktory | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 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. Codeium | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 29 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.30% · e.g. Kaia Health | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |