4 hours ago
Base Salary
$220k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Embed with enterprise customers and develop a deep understanding of their businesses, workflows, and bottlenecks.
- Define AI-driven solutions based on customer business needs.
- Build, deploy, and own production-grade AI agents and end-to-end delivery.
- Design and run evaluations to measure agent performance and iteratively improve results.
- Develop domain expertise in customer verticals and apply it to improve AI systems.
- 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 the company’s platform and product roadmap.
Requirements
- 5-6+ years of full-stack engineering experience with 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 systematic AI performance improvement.
- Ability to work directly with enterprise customers in ambiguous, high-stakes environments.
- Strong systems thinking across business problems and technical solutions.
- High ownership mentality and outcome-focused approach.
- Strong communication skills for working with senior stakeholders.
Benefits
- Equity, competitive compensation, 401(k) match, 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 professional development.
- San Francisco office support including internet, commuting benefits, 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 and requires 5 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.