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NLP Engineer job title trend since Apr 2011

Engineering · Fading · in 0% of HN hiring posts · no open roles tracked

First sighting

Language models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.

first seen May 2011, Hacker Newstook off Mar 2012

Why it exists

Written by rule from our own data

First seen in our data in May 2011, in a Hacker News Who is hiring post. It took off in March 2012, when its share of Who is hiring posts first reached a quarter of its best year. Closest tracked titles: Machine Learning Engineer, LLM Engineer.

  1. PostingAsk HN: Who is hiring? (May 2011)Hacker News, May 2011 · backs: first sighting
No open postings with this title on the tracked job boards right now. Tracked companies

Share of Hacker News hiring posts

127 posts since Apr 2011
November 2026 0 of 207 postings, 0%
3-month averageEach monthFirst sighting

Related titles

Established-11%Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.4.3% of HN posts, 12 mo · 331 open · $255k median · since Apr 2011Established-LLM EngineerAn engineer focused on building with, fine-tuning or serving large language models.0.17% of HN posts, 12 mo · 7 open · $142k median · since Mar 2023Established-22%Full Stack EngineerWorks across the browser, the API and the database; the default startup hire.16% of HN posts, 12 mo · 294 open · $196k median · since Apr 2011Established+12%Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.7.8% of HN posts, 12 mo · 109 open · $220k median · since May 2011Emerging-9%AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.6.4% of HN posts, 12 mo · 244 open · $240k median · since Jun 2011Established-7%Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.5.9% of HN posts, 12 mo · 25 open · $194k median · since Jul 2011
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Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.Established ·4.3% of posts · 331 open · since Apr 2011-11%
LLM EngineerAn engineer focused on building with, fine-tuning or serving large language models.Established ·0.17% of posts · 7 open · since Mar 2023-
Full Stack EngineerWorks across the browser, the API and the database; the default startup hire.Established ·16% of posts · 294 open · since Apr 2011-22%
Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.Established ·7.8% of posts · 109 open · since May 2011+12%
AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.Emerging ·6.4% of posts · 244 open · since Jun 2011-9%
Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.Established ·5.9% of posts · 25 open · since Jul 2011-7%
About this title

Language models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.

Also counted: natural language processing

First sighting
...Business development/marketing manager - UI/UX designer - NLP researcher iApps.in is a semantic search and discovery engine for the App Store that...
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2011) . Took off in March 2012, when its 12-month share first reached a quarter of its best.

No open posting for this title states a pay range yet, so no median is shown. Not a survey of what people earn.