3 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAEntry Level / Mid Level / Senior
H1B Sponsor
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.