Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, October 2024
328 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 27 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. Channable | 19% | 63 | +4.9 |
| 2 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.6.7% · e.g. Adora AI| HYBRID | 6.7% | 22 | +4.2 |
| 3 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.5% · e.g. Stream | 5.5% | 18 | +1.1 |
| 4 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.5.5% · e.g. Stream | 5.5% | 18 | +1.8 |
| 5 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.4.6% · e.g. SmarterDx | 4.6% | 15 | -0.7 |
| 6 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.4.6% · e.g. Smarkets | 4.6% | 15 | +0.9 |
| 7 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.3.0% · e.g. Granola | 3.0% | 10 | +1.1 |
| 8 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.3.0% · e.g. Fluency | 3.0% | 10 | -3.5 |
| 9 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.0% · e.g. Adora AI| HYBRID | 3.0% | 10 | -2.3 |
| 10 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.3.0% · e.g. Fullstory | 3.0% | 10 | -2.9 |
| 11 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.2.4% · e.g. SmarterDx | 2.4% | 8 | -1.0 |
| 12 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.1.8% · e.g. Channable | 1.8% | 6 | -2.2 |
| 13 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.1.8% · e.g. WOLF | 1.8% | 6 | +0.6 |
| 14 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.8% · e.g. Monad Labs | 1.8% | 6 | +0.6 |
| 15 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.8% · e.g. Waitwhile | 1.8% | 6 | -0.1 |
| 16 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.1.5% · e.g. Granola | 1.5% | 5 | +0.3 |
| 17 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.90% · e.g. SmarterDx | 0.90% | 3 | -0.7 |
| 18 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.90% · e.g. Rockstar Games | 0.90% | 3 | -0.7 |
| 19 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.90% · e.g. Streak | 0.90% | 3 | +0.6 |
| 20 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.90% · e.g. Cisco ThousandEyes | 0.90% | 3 | +0.6 |
| 21 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.60% · e.g. OfferFit | 0.60% | 2 | +0.6 |
| 22 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.60% · an example posting | 0.60% | 2 | -0.3 |
| 23 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.60% · e.g. Unnamed AI research lab | 0.60% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 24 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.30% · e.g. PlantingSpace | 0.30% | 1 | -0.3 |
| 25 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.30% · e.g. OfferFit | 0.30% | 1 | -0.3 |
| 26 | Chief Data OfficerThe executive who owns data governance, quality and analytics.0.30% · e.g. Defense Digital Service | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 27 | Applied AI EngineerTurns frontier models into working products for specific customers or use cases.0.30% · e.g. Alembic | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |