Handshake
Senior Engineering Manager, Quality & Annotations
San Francisco, CA · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 8 days ago
Distributed SystemsData EngineeringLLMsAI OrchestrationStakeholder ManagementLeadership
About the role
- This is an in-office role, 5 days/week (no remote/hybrid)
- Background at companies where AI is the core product; you've shipped in environments where model quality, data pipelines, and evaluation rigor are table stakes
Responsibilities
- Build and scale an organization across two distinct technical domains, developing senior ICs and driving cross-team technical strategy
- Partner with internal stakeholders to prioritize platform investments that unlock other teams to move faster and build on top of shared infrastructure
- We're hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to own two of HAI's core engineering teams, Quality and Annotations, leading a combined org of ~15 engineers.
- Own the annotations platform: operator workflows, tasking flows, and pipeline infrastructure that powers data delivery
Requirements
- Systems + product mindset: strong platform/distributed systems background, and the ability to turn needs into a clear roadmap, ship iteratively, and measure outcomes
- 7+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years managing engineering teams of 8 or more and experience manager managers.
- Experience leading teams with meaningfully different technical focuses simultaneously
- strong platform/distributed systems background, and the ability to turn needs into a clear roadmap, ship iteratively, and measure outcomes
Nice to have
- Familiarity with LLM evaluation, quality pipelines, or applied AI tooling
- Experience with annotation or data labeling platforms, tasking systems, or workflow orchestration
- 3+ years managing teams, plus 5+ years hands-on engineering experience
- experience leading senior engineers
- managing an EM (or equivalent scope) is a plus
- Engineering leader + builder: 3+ years managing teams, plus 5+ years hands-on engineering experience
- Strong people leadership: experience leading senior engineers
Compensation
- 💰 Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching
Benefits
- Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supported and thrive at work and in life.
- The below benefits are for full-time US employees.
- 🎯 Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company
- 💰 Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching
- 🍼 Family Support: Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching
- 💝 Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend
- 📚 Growth: $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development
- 🏝 Time Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days
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- Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world's top educational institutions
- Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue
- 💻 Remote & Office: Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office
Company info
- About Handshake
- Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career, regardless of where they went to school or who they know.
- Today, we power 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions.
- In 2025, we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history.
- We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data.
- We've grown from $0 to ~$1B run rate and pay ~$60M to over 30K individuals every month.
- Team outings & referral bonuses
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