GrepJob
Handshake

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Handshake AI

Handshake
Apply
about 2 months ago

Base Salary

$225k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with AI labs and cross-functional stakeholders to understand technical challenges, translate ambiguous requirements into engineering plans, and drive alignment.
  • Own the design, architecture, and delivery of tailored production-grade solutions for complex customer needs.
  • Mentor engineers through code reviews and architectural guidance while establishing forward-deployed engineering best practices.
  • Make architectural decisions involving reliability, scalability, and security and set technical direction for repeatable deployment patterns.
  • Rapidly prototype, test, and iterate on tools based on real-time customer feedback while balancing delivery speed and maintainability.
  • Create and maintain technical playbooks, documentation, and frameworks that help scale deployments efficiently.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including meaningful experience in customer-facing, solutions-oriented, or forward-deployed roles.
  • Strong proficiency with React and TypeScript, with emphasis on code quality, usability, and accessibility.
  • Deep understanding of relational databases such as PostgreSQL, data modeling, and system design.
  • Experience with AWS or GCP cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and production operations at scale.
  • Ability to lead technical projects end to end in ambiguous environments with shifting requirements.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Track record of mentoring engineers and improving engineering practices within a team.
  • Preferred experience architecting and delivering production systems for LLMs or other AI-powered products in customer-facing environments.
  • Preferred experience with component libraries, design systems, reusable deployment frameworks, performance optimization, and scaling full-stack applications.
  • Prior forward-deployed, solutions engineering, or technical consulting experience at a high-growth company is preferred.

Benefits

  • Equity in a fast-growing company; 401(k) match and financial coaching; paid parental leave, fertility benefits, and parental coaching; medical, dental, vision, and mental health support; $500 wellness stipend; $2,000 learning stipend; internet, 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; role is based in San Francisco and requires working in the office 5 days per week.