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The Job Title Alias List
Every job goes by other names, and the people you need are filed under them.
people the first search never showed you
Same work. Different name. Invisible to your search.
Industry
A bank calls it Platform Engineer. A telecom calls it Systems Engineer. The work is the same.
Company size
At 20 people, one person is Head of People. At 20,000, the same work is an HR Business Partner.
Seniority
Senior people often drop the function from the title: Product Lead, Head of Finance, Principal.
Country
A US Controller is a UK Financial Controller. An ICU nurse in the UK may say ITU.
Made-up titles
Startups invent names: Founding Engineer, Customer Outcomes, Growth. Nobody searches them.
A filter matches the name people typed. Claude can search every name the work goes by, in one go.
Start your free 7-day trial20 roles and every other name they go by
Where a role has fewer real other names, we list fewer. Search a name you've seen on a profile to find which role it belongs to.
Names that look right and aren't
Search these and check the work before you shortlist anyone. The prompt below tells Claude to flag them.
| Looks like | The name | What it often means instead |
|---|
Paste this into Claude
Use the one-shot version, or run the 3 steps one at a time to check the names before you search.
Steps 2 and 3 run through our people search inside Claude. The trial gives you 100 people free.
Start your free 7-day trialEvery name, searched in one chat
- Start your free trial at The Cognitive.
- In Claude, open Settings, then Connectors, and add a custom connector with this address:
https://app.thecognitive.io/mcp - Sign in when Claude asks. Then paste the prompt with your role.
- A person shown in a search1 credit
- A search that finds nobodynothing
- Searching deeperonly new people
- Reopening a search you ranfree
- A personal email4 credits
- A phone number12 credits, Pro plan
Thinking about other names for SRE10 names · 0 credits
Keep 9: Production Engineer, Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Systems Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Production Ops, Operations Engineer, Founding Engineer Check the work: Systems Engineer at defense and aerospace firms means something else
Searched The Cognitive people search10 searches · 1 credit per person shown
Site Reliability Engineer 10 · Production Engineer +9 · Platform Engineer +12 · DevOps Engineer +8 · Infrastructure Engineer +7 · Systems Engineer +6 · Cloud Engineer +5 · Production Ops +4 · Operations Engineer +3 · Founding Engineer +2
66 people, 56 of them not under the SRE title. Ranked by evidence of the work, with the name I found each one under:
Want first messages for the top 10?
Example · people and companies are made up
One role, 10 searches
New people means people the earlier searches had not already shown.
| Searched as | Who uses this name | New people |
|---|---|---|
| Found only under other names | +56 |
Mock example · people and companies are made up
Bring your hardest open role. Leave with every name searched.
- Start the free trial7 days, 100 people included
- Book 30 minutesPick any slot this week
- We run it with you, liveYour role, every name, one ranked list
The people you need are already out there. Under another name.
Start free, paste the prompt with your hardest role, and see who was hiding under the other names.
Want it run on your own roles? Book 30 minutes and we'll do it live together. sparsh@thecognitive.io · Sparsh, founder