Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, August 2024
321 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 31 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. ElectronX | 19% | 62 | +3.0 |
| 2 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.8.4% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 8.4% | 27 | +3.7 |
| 3 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.5.9% · e.g. ML6 | 5.9% | 19 | +2.4 |
| 4 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.5.6% · e.g. Tracebit | 5.6% | 18 | +2.7 |
| 5 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.4.4% · e.g. SmarterDx | 4.4% | 14 | -1.7 |
| 6 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.4.0% · e.g. Aha! | 4.0% | 13 | -4.2 |
| 7 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.3.4% · e.g. SmarterDx | 3.4% | 11 | +0.2 |
| 8 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.3.4% · e.g. Coder | 3.4% | 11 | +2.2 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.4% · e.g. Aurora | 3.4% | 11 | -1.6 |
| 10 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.3.1% · e.g. SmarterDx | 3.1% | 10 | -1.3 |
| 11 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.3.1% · e.g. ** Trunk Tools | 3.1% | 10 | -1.9 |
| 12 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.2.8% · e.g. Needle | 2.8% | 9 | +1.9 |
| 13 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.2.5% · e.g. Channable | 2.5% | 8 | +0.2 |
| 14 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.5% · e.g. Aha! | 2.5% | 8 | -0.4 |
| 15 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.2.5% · e.g. Waitwhile | 2.5% | 8 | +1.3 |
| 16 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.2.5% · e.g. Stealth Financial Institution | 2.5% | 8 | +0.2 |
| 17 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.2.2% · e.g. Lago | 2.2% | 7 | -1.0 |
| 18 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.1.6% · e.g. Fauna Robotics | 1.6% | 5 | +0.7 |
| 19 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.90% · e.g. Beautiful.ai | 0.90% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 20 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.60% · e.g. SmarterDx | 0.60% | 2 | -0.9 |
| 21 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.60% · e.g. Raylu | 0.60% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 22 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.30% · e.g. PlantingSpace | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 23 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.30% · e.g. Topaz Labs | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 24 | Agent EngineerBuilds LLM agents that plan and call tools, and the harnesses that keep them reliable.0.30% · e.g. CoPlane | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.30% · e.g. Mixpeek | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 27 | AI Red TeamerAttacks models before release: finds jailbreaks, harmful outputs and misuse, and turns them into fixes and evals.0.30% · e.g. Promptfoo | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 28 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. Nimble | 0.30% | 1 | -0.3 |
| 29 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.30% · e.g. iGenius.ai | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 30 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.30% · e.g. Pave.dev | 0.30% | 1 | -0.6 |
| 31 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.30% · e.g. Intuition Machines, Inc. | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |