Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, September 2024
300 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 29 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 21% 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.21% · e.g. PredictionHealth | 21% | 64 | +2.7 |
| 2 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.6.7% · e.g. Purplefish | 6.7% | 20 | +1.6 |
| 3 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.6.0% · e.g. Redbook | 6.0% | 18 | +2.9 |
| 4 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.5.7% · e.g. Olo | 5.7% | 17 | -0.7 |
| 5 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.4.3% · e.g. Olo | 4.3% | 13 | -0.8 |
| 6 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.3.3% · e.g. TRM Labs | 3.3% | 10 | -1.1 |
| 7 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.3.0% · e.g. Quatt.io | 3.0% | 9 | -0.1 |
| 8 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.0% · e.g. Smarkets | 3.0% | 9 | -0.4 |
| 9 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.3.0% · e.g. TRM Labs | 3.0% | 9 | -0.7 |
| 10 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.3.0% · e.g. TRM Labs | 3.0% | 9 | -5.1 |
| 11 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.2.3% · e.g. sea.dev | 2.3% | 7 | -1.4 |
| 12 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.2.3% · e.g. Waitwhile | 2.3% | 7 | +0.3 |
| 13 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.2.0% · e.g. Fondant | 2.0% | 6 | +0.6 |
| 14 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.2.0% · e.g. Fullstory | 2.0% | 6 | -3.4 |
| 15 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.1.7% · e.g. Plastic Labs | 1.7% | 5 | +1.7 |
| 16 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.1.7% · e.g. Biomeloop | 1.7% | 5 | -2.7 |
| 17 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.1.7% · e.g. Streak | 1.7% | 5 | +1.4 |
| 18 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.3% · e.g. OfferFit | 1.3% | 4 | +0.6 |
| 19 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.3% · e.g. SRLabs | 1.3% | 4 | -1.1 |
| 20 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.1.3% · e.g. Railway | 1.3% | 4 | -0.7 |
| 21 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.0% · e.g. Roboflow | 1.0% | 3 | -0.7 |
| 22 | Member of Technical StaffA deliberately flat title from Bell Labs, revived by AI labs for engineers and researchers alike.0.30% · e.g. Purplefish | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 23 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.30% · e.g. PlantingSpace | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 24 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.30% · e.g. OfferFit | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 25 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 26 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. Nimble | 0.30% | 1 | -0.7 |
| 27 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.30% · e.g. Rad AI | 0.30% | 1 | -0.7 |
| 28 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.30% · e.g. ether.fi | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 29 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |