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Forward Deployed Engineer I, Handshake AI

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19 days ago

Base Salary

$145k - $170k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with AI labs and cross-functional stakeholders to understand technical challenges, translate requirements into engineering plans, and align teams.
  • Build and iterate on tailored, production-grade solutions for complex customer needs, often with guidance from senior engineers.
  • Participate in code reviews and contribute to forward-deployed engineering best practices.
  • Contribute to architecture discussions on reliability, scalability, and security and help implement repeatable deployment patterns.
  • Rapidly prototype, test, and iterate on tools based on real-time feedback while balancing delivery speed and maintainability.
  • Create and maintain technical documentation and frameworks that help the team scale deployments efficiently.

Requirements

  • 1–4 years of professional software engineering experience, ideally including customer-facing, solutions-oriented, or forward-deployed work.
  • Strong proficiency with ReactJS and TypeScript, including attention to code quality, usability, and accessibility.
  • Understanding of relational databases such as PostgreSQL, data modeling, and system design fundamentals.
  • Some experience with AWS or GCP, deployment pipelines, and production operations.
  • Ability to contribute to technical projects in ambiguous environments with shifting requirements and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Preferred experience includes architecting or delivering LLM or other AI-powered systems, contributing to component libraries or design systems, optimizing full-stack application performance, or working in forward-deployed, solutions engineering, technical consulting, or customer-facing roles.

Benefits

  • Equity in a fast-growing company; 401(k) match; competitive compensation and financial coaching; paid parental leave, fertility benefits, and parental coaching; medical, dental, vision, mental health support, and a $500 wellness stipend; $2,000 learning stipend; internet and commuting support; free lunch and gym access in the San Francisco office; flexible PTO, 15 holidays, and 2 flex days; team outings and referral bonuses.
  • Full-time US employee benefits apply, with the role requiring five days per week in the San Francisco office.