Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, June 2024
340 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 29 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. Quatt.io | 15% | 52 | +0.5 |
| 2 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.8.2% · e.g. SlashID | 8.2% | 28 | +2.8 |
| 3 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.6.5% · e.g. Continua AI | 6.5% | 22 | +2.6 |
| 4 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.5.3% · e.g. Tracebit | 5.3% | 18 | +3.5 |
| 5 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.5.0% · e.g. Aha! | 5.0% | 17 | -0.4 |
| 6 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.4.4% · e.g. SmarterDx | 4.4% | 15 | -0.1 |
| 7 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.3.8% · e.g. SmarterDx | 3.8% | 13 | +0.2 |
| 8 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.3.8% · e.g. SmarterDx | 3.8% | 13 | -0.7 |
| 9 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.3.5% · e.g. Runn | 3.5% | 12 | +1.4 |
| 10 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.3.2% · e.g. Aha! | 3.2% | 11 | -5.0 |
| 11 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.3.2% · an example posting | 3.2% | 11 | -1.0 |
| 12 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.2.9% · e.g. Sudowrite | 2.9% | 10 | +2.0 |
| 13 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.2.6% · an example posting | 2.6% | 9 | -2.5 |
| 14 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.2.1% · e.g. Agenta | 2.1% | 7 | -1.8 |
| 15 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.8% · e.g. Rollbar | 1.8% | 6 | -0.3 |
| 16 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.5% · e.g. PostEra | 1.5% | 5 | +0.9 |
| 17 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.5% · e.g. Langfuse | 1.5% | 5 | -0.9 |
| 18 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.2% · e.g. Fullstory | 1.2% | 4 | -2.4 |
| 19 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.2% · e.g. Amplify Education | 1.2% | 4 | +0.0 |
| 20 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.1.2% · e.g. LiveEO | 1.2% | 4 | +1.2 |
| 21 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.90% · e.g. RepairWise | 0.90% | 3 | +0.6 |
| 22 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.90% · e.g. Streak | 0.90% | 3 | +0.0 |
| 23 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.60% · e.g. Duolingo | 0.60% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 24 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.30% · e.g. PlantingSpace | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 25 | AI Deployment EngineerDeploys and tunes an AI product or agent inside a customer's stack; a close cousin of the forward deployed engineer.0.30% · e.g. Uncountable | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 26 | 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. Amplify Education | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 27 | Member of Technical StaffA deliberately flat title from Bell Labs, revived by AI labs for engineers and researchers alike.0.30% · e.g. DatologyAI | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 28 | LLM EngineerAn engineer focused on building with, fine-tuning or serving large language models.0.30% · e.g. GenHealth.ai | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 29 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.30% · e.g. Company: Anduril | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |