3 days ago
Base Salary
$208k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable systems for coding evaluation, data generation, and agentic development workflows.
- Develop tools and services that analyze, validate, and improve AI-generated code.
- Build reliable pipelines for code execution, testing, benchmarking, and quality measurement.
- Translate complex requirements into practical systems with engineering, research, operations, and customer-facing teams.
- Drive technical decisions across architecture, APIs, data models, observability, and operational excellence.
- Improve engineering velocity through reusable frameworks, automation, and developer tooling.
- Lead projects from ambiguous problem definition through design, implementation, launch, and iteration.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and day-to-day collaboration.
- Establish high standards for maintainability, correctness, security, and reliability.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong proficiency in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, or another modern programming language.
- Experience designing and operating production systems with meaningful scale, reliability, and performance requirements.
- Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including testing, APIs, data structures, distributed systems, and observability.
- Experience building developer tools, infrastructure, data pipelines, evaluation systems, or other technically complex products.
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous environments and break large problems into executable plans.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for explaining technical tradeoffs to technical and non-technical partners.
- Experience with AI/ML evaluation, coding agents, LLM applications, or developer productivity tools is preferred.
- Familiarity with code execution sandboxes, GitHub workflows, CI/CD systems, or benchmark infrastructure is preferred.
- Experience with containerization, cloud platforms, databases, and distributed job orchestration is preferred.
- Open-source contributions or demonstrated passion for improving developer tools is preferred.
- Experience partnering with research teams or customers to deliver technically rigorous solutions is preferred.
Benefits
- Equity, competitive compensation, 401(k) match, and financial coaching are provided.
- Benefits include paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, and a wellness stipend.
- Employees receive a learning stipend and ongoing development opportunities.
- US employees receive internet and commuting support, with free lunch and gym access at the San Francisco office.
- The role includes flexible PTO, 15 holidays, and 2 flex days.
- Team outings and referral bonuses are available.
- Benefits listed apply to full-time US employees.
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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.