4 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Partner directly with frontier AI labs to understand technical challenges and translate them into scalable engineering solutions.
- Design, build, deploy, and operate production-grade applications for high-impact customer problems.
- Own technical architecture for customer deployments with emphasis on reliability, scalability, security, and maintainability.
- Rapidly prototype, test, and iterate on solutions using customer feedback.
- Build reusable tools, frameworks, and deployment patterns across customer engagements.
- Coordinate with Engineering, Research, Product, and Operations teams in India and the US against a shared roadmap.
- Mentor engineers through technical leadership, code reviews, and engineering best practices.
- Help establish the engineering culture for Handshake’s India engineering organization.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Experience leading technically complex customer-facing, solutions engineering, or forward deployed engineering projects.
- Strong proficiency with TypeScript, React, and modern backend architectures.
- Deep understanding of relational databases such as PostgreSQL, system design, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience building and operating production systems on AWS or GCP.
- Strong technical judgment and ability to solve complex problems in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience collaborating with globally distributed engineering teams, including teams based in the US.
- Preferred experience includes building AI-powered products, LLM infrastructure, or machine learning platforms; working with enterprise customers or strategic technical partners; Docker and Kubernetes; supporting applied AI or ML research teams; and working in a fast-growing startup or high-growth engineering organization.
Benefits
- In-office role in Bengaluru, India.
- Generous equity grant vesting over 4 years.
- Housing bonus of 1.3 lakhs spread throughout the first year.
- Performance bonus ranging from 10% to 100% of base salary.
- Medical insurance coverage.
- Food credit for every in-person workday.
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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.