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Applied AI Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise

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3 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
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Base Salary

$155k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Embed with enterprise customers to understand their businesses, workflows, and bottlenecks.
  • Define AI-driven solutions based on real business needs.
  • Build and deploy production-grade agents tailored to customer use cases and own end-to-end delivery.
  • Design and run evaluations, then iterate to improve agent performance.
  • Develop customer-domain expertise to improve AI solutions over time.
  • Collaborate with Product and Platform engineers to ship reliable, cohesive solutions.
  • Establish engineering practices, agent patterns, and reusable frameworks that scale team output.
  • Surface deployment insights that inform Handshake’s platform and product roadmap.

Requirements

  • Strong applied AI engineering experience and backend depth.
  • Real-world experience building and shipping AI applications in production rather than only fine-tuning or prototyping.
  • Strong understanding of agent architectures, evaluations, and systematic AI performance improvement.
  • Comfort working directly with enterprise customers in ambiguous, high-stakes environments.
  • Strong systems thinking, ownership, communication, and ability to work with senior stakeholders.
  • Preferred experience includes forward deployment or field engineering, production multi-agent systems, enterprise-vertical expertise, enterprise security requirements, VPC deployments, on-premises configurations, or evaluation infrastructure and AI quality measurement tooling.

Benefits

  • Full-time US employees receive equity, 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching, paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching, medical, dental and vision coverage, mental health support, a $500 wellness stipend, a $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development, internet and commuting support, free lunch and gym access at the San Francisco office, flexible PTO, 15 holidays plus 2 flex days, team outings, and referral bonuses.
  • The role is based in San Francisco, California and requires working in the office five days per week.

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