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Handshake

Forward Deployed Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise

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3 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAEntry Level / Mid Level / Senior
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Base Salary

$155k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Embed with enterprise customers to understand their businesses, workflows, and operational bottlenecks.
  • Define AI-driven solutions based on customer business needs.
  • Build and deploy production-grade agents tailored to specific customer use cases.
  • Design and run evaluations, then iterate to improve agent performance.
  • Develop customer-domain expertise and use it 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 that inform Handshake’s platform and product roadmap.

Requirements

  • Full-stack engineering experience with strong backend depth.
  • Experience building and shipping AI applications in production, beyond fine-tuning or prototyping.
  • Strong understanding of agent architectures, evaluations, and systematic AI performance improvement.
  • Ability to work directly with enterprise customers in ambiguous, high-stakes environments.
  • Strong systems thinking, ownership, and communication skills.
  • Preferred: experience with forward deployment or field engineering models, production multi-agent systems, enterprise verticals such as recruiting, finance, operations, or legal, enterprise security requirements, VPC or on-premises deployments, or evaluation infrastructure and AI quality measurement tooling.

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 and ongoing development opportunities.
  • San Francisco office benefits including internet, commuting support, free lunch, and gym access.
  • Flexible PTO, 15 holidays, and 2 flex days.
  • Team outings and referral bonuses.
  • Full-time US employee benefits apply; the role is based in San Francisco with five days per week in-office.