Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, November 2024
315 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 31 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 18% 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.18% · e.g. HumanSignal | 18% | 57 | +2.3 |
| 2 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.6.3% · e.g. Tracebit | 6.3% | 20 | +0.2 |
| 3 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.6.0% · e.g. OpenSanctions | 6.0% | 19 | +1.6 |
| 4 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.5.1% · e.g. HumanSignal | 5.1% | 16 | -1.0 |
| 5 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.4.8% · e.g. Oscar Health | 4.8% | 15 | +2.6 |
| 6 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.4.4% · e.g. Eigen | 4.4% | 14 | +1.4 |
| 7 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.4.4% · e.g. Sanctuary Computer | 4.4% | 14 | -0.9 |
| 8 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.3.8% · e.g. HumanSignal | 3.8% | 12 | +1.6 |
| 9 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.3.8% · e.g. Raylu | 3.8% | 12 | +1.9 |
| 10 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.3.2% · e.g. Quatt.io | 3.2% | 10 | -2.6 |
| 11 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.2% · e.g. OpenSanctions | 3.2% | 10 | -2.1 |
| 12 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.9% · e.g. Monadical.com | 2.9% | 9 | -1.3 |
| 13 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.2.2% · e.g. HumanSignal | 2.2% | 7 | -0.8 |
| 14 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.2.2% · e.g. Stream | 2.2% | 7 | +0.3 |
| 15 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.1.9% · e.g. Costa Security | 1.9% | 6 | -0.6 |
| 16 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.1.3% · e.g. Scite.ai | 1.3% | 4 | -1.7 |
| 17 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.1.3% · e.g. Mattermost | 1.3% | 4 | +0.2 |
| 18 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.3% · e.g. Fullstory | 1.3% | 4 | -0.6 |
| 19 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.60% · e.g. Roboflow | 0.60% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 20 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.60% · e.g. AO Labs | 0.60% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 21 | 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.0.60% · e.g. Sourcegraph | 0.60% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 22 | Applied AI EngineerTurns frontier models into working products for specific customers or use cases.0.60% · e.g. Alembic | 0.60% | 2 | +0.6 |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.30% · e.g. ** Trunk Tools | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 25 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.30% · e.g. ** Trunk Tools | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 26 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.30% · e.g. Ambient | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 27 | 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. Loop | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 28 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.30% · e.g. iGenius.ai | 0.30% | 1 | -0.8 |
| 29 | LLM EngineerAn engineer focused on building with, fine-tuning or serving large language models.0.30% · e.g. Primer | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 30 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. BioIntelliSense | 0.30% | 1 | -0.5 |
| 31 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.30% · e.g. Vanguard | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |