2 months ago
Base Salary
$157k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Embed directly with enterprise customers and develop a deep understanding of their businesses and workflows.
- Define AI-driven solutions based on customer business needs.
- Build and deploy production-grade agents tailored to customer use cases, owning end-to-end delivery.
- Design and run evaluations to measure agent performance and iteratively improve results.
- Develop customer-vertical expertise to improve AI solutions over time.
- Collaborate with Product and Platform engineers to ship cohesive, reliable solutions.
- Establish engineering best practices, agent patterns, and reusable frameworks for the forward-deployed team.
- Surface deployment insights to inform Handshake’s platform and product roadmap.
Requirements
- 1-4+ years of engineering experience with full-stack capabilities and strong backend depth.
- Real-world experience building and shipping AI applications in production, beyond fine-tuning or prototyping.
- Strong understanding of agent architectures, evaluations, and methods for measuring and systematically improving AI performance.
- Comfort working directly with enterprise customers in ambiguous, high-stakes environments.
- Strong systems thinking across business problems and technical solutions.
- High ownership mentality focused on outcomes.
- Strong communication skills for working with senior stakeholders.
- Experience with forward deployment or field engineering models is preferred.
- Experience building multi-agent systems in production is preferred.
- Domain expertise in an enterprise vertical such as recruiting, finance, operations, or legal is preferred.
- Familiarity with enterprise security requirements, VPC deployments, or on-premises configurations is preferred.
- Experience building evaluation infrastructure or AI quality measurement tooling is preferred.
Benefits
- Equity, competitive compensation, 401(k) matching, and financial coaching.
- Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, and parental coaching.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage, mental health support, and a $500 wellness stipend.
- $2,000 learning stipend and ongoing professional development.
- Internet support, commuting benefits, and free lunch and gym access at the San Francisco office.
- Flexible paid time off, 15 holidays, and 2 flex days.
- Team outings and referral bonuses.
- Full-time US employee benefits apply; the role is based in San Francisco and requires five days per week in-office.
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Handshake
Handshake builds a career network and recruiting platform that connects college students and recent grads with employers, sold as SaaS to universities and subscriptions/solutions to employers. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, it serves 1,600+ educational institutions and over 1 million employers. The company also operates Handshake AI, which partners with frontier AI labs on human data collection and evaluations for model training and post-training workflows.