Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, July 2024
379 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 33 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. Eigen | 16% | 62 | +0.4 |
| 2 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.6.6% · e.g. Meaningful Gigs | 6.6% | 25 | +2.4 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.6.1% · e.g. Hudson River Trading | 6.1% | 23 | +0.5 |
| 4 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.6.1% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 6.1% | 23 | +1.2 |
| 5 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.8% · e.g. SmarterDx | 5.8% | 22 | +2.5 |
| 6 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.5.8% · e.g. 3box labs | 5.8% | 22 | +2.5 |
| 7 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.5.3% · e.g. Tracebit | 5.3% | 20 | +3.0 |
| 8 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.4.7% · e.g. Eigen | 4.7% | 18 | +2.1 |
| 9 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.2% · e.g. Quatt.io | 4.2% | 16 | +2.6 |
| 10 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.4.0% · e.g. SmarterDx | 4.0% | 15 | -0.9 |
| 11 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.3.2% · e.g. SmarterDx | 3.2% | 12 | -1.7 |
| 12 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.2.9% · e.g. Eigen | 2.9% | 11 | +0.0 |
| 13 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.2.6% · e.g. Trunk | 2.6% | 10 | -2.3 |
| 14 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.4% · e.g. Aha! | 2.4% | 9 | -1.2 |
| 15 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.2.1% · e.g. BEAT81 | 2.1% | 8 | -2.8 |
| 16 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.6% · e.g. Hudson River Trading | 1.6% | 6 | +0.3 |
| 17 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.6% · e.g. Val Town | 1.6% | 6 | +0.0 |
| 18 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.3% · e.g. Roboflow | 1.3% | 5 | +0.0 |
| 19 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.80% · e.g. Riffusion | 0.80% | 3 | +0.1 |
| 20 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.80% · e.g. Health Partners Group | 0.80% | 3 | -0.2 |
| 21 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.50% · e.g. Two Six Technologies | 0.50% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 22 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.50% · e.g. Koddi | 0.50% | 2 | +0.5 |
| 23 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.50% · e.g. Wormhole Labs | 0.50% | 2 | +0.5 |
| 24 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.50% · e.g. ** Trunk Tools | 0.50% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 25 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.50% · e.g. Onfido | 0.50% | 2 | +0.5 |
| 26 | 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.0.50% · e.g. Athena Intelligence | 0.50% | 2 | +0.5 |
| 27 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. Hudson River Trading | 0.30% | 1 | -1.0 |
| 28 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.30% · e.g. PlantingSpace | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 29 | LLMOps EngineerRuns language models in production: serving, prompt and model versions, evals in CI, cost and latency.0.30% · e.g. Aircover AI | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 30 | Legal EngineerA lawyer who builds: turns legal workflows into prompts, evals and product for legal AI tools.0.30% · e.g. Norm | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 31 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.30% · e.g. Onfido | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 32 | 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. Qventus | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 33 | AI Solutions ArchitectDesigns how a customer should use AI models and services, from architecture review to a working proof of concept.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |