Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, June 2025
357 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 35 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 20% 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.20% · e.g. Coveo | 20% | 70 | +4.3 |
| 2 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.8.1% · e.g. Snout | 8.1% | 29 | -0.1 |
| 3 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.7.0% · e.g. Galaxy | 7.0% | 25 | +1.7 |
| 4 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.5.6% · e.g. SmarterDx | 5.6% | 20 | -0.9 |
| 5 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.5.3% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 5.3% | 19 | +0.3 |
| 6 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.5.3% · e.g. CrazyGames | 5.3% | 19 | +1.8 |
| 7 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.4.2% · e.g. N26 SE | 4.2% | 15 | +1.6 |
| 8 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.4.2% · e.g. Ascertain | 4.2% | 15 | +1.3 |
| 9 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.3.9% · e.g. Eclypsium | 3.9% | 14 | +0.1 |
| 10 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.3.9% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 3.9% | 14 | +0.7 |
| 11 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.3.4% · e.g. Stream | 3.4% | 12 | +0.2 |
| 12 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.3.4% · e.g. Stream | 3.4% | 12 | +1.9 |
| 13 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.3.1% · e.g. Roboflow | 3.1% | 11 | +1.3 |
| 14 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.2.8% · e.g. Beautiful.ai | 2.8% | 10 | +0.7 |
| 15 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.2.0% · e.g. SmarterDx | 2.0% | 7 | -1.8 |
| 16 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.2.0% · e.g. Limitless | 2.0% | 7 | +1.4 |
| 17 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.1.7% · e.g. SmarterDx | 1.7% | 6 | -2.7 |
| 18 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.1.7% · e.g. Stream | 1.7% | 6 | +0.8 |
| 19 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.1.7% · e.g. Ambient | 1.7% | 6 | +0.2 |
| 20 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.4% · e.g. SmarterDx | 1.4% | 5 | +0.2 |
| 21 | GTM EngineerBuilds sales and marketing systems with data enrichment, automation and language models instead of adding headcount.1.1% · e.g. ZeroEntropy | 1.1% | 4 | +1.1 |
| 22 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.80% · e.g. Eclypsium | 0.80% | 3 | -0.4 |
| 23 | AI Product ManagerA product manager for model-powered products, fluent in evals and model behaviour.0.60% · e.g. Temporal Technologies | 0.60% | 2 | +0.6 |
| 24 | Agent EngineerBuilds LLM agents that plan and call tools, and the harnesses that keep them reliable.0.60% · e.g. StrongDM | 0.60% | 2 | +0.6 |
| 25 | Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.0.60% · e.g. Dexory | 0.60% | 2 | +0.6 |
| 26 | MLOps EngineerRuns the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.0.60% · e.g. Layer Health | 0.60% | 2 | -0.6 |
| 27 | 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. Fluidstack | 0.60% | 2 | +0.6 |
| 28 | AI Deployment EngineerDeploys and tunes an AI product or agent inside a customer's stack; a close cousin of the forward deployed engineer.0.60% · e.g. Norm Ai | 0.60% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 29 | 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. SmarterDx | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 30 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.30% · e.g. Coveo | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 31 | LLM EngineerAn engineer focused on building with, fine-tuning or serving large language models.0.30% · e.g. Sutro.sh | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 32 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. AllSpice | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 33 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.30% · e.g. Duranta | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 34 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.30% · e.g. Lonely Planet | 0.30% | 1 | -0.6 |
| 35 | Member of Technical StaffA deliberately flat title from Bell Labs, revived by AI labs for engineers and researchers alike.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |