Handshake

Handshake

Applied AI Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise

San Francisco, CA · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 64 days ago
Full-Stack DevelopmentMachine LearningLLMsAgentic AIProduct ManagementProduct StrategyCommunication

About the role

  • As an Applied AI Engineer at Handshake AI Enterprise, you'll be part of a small, expert team embedded directly inside enterprise customer environments.
  • This isn't an implementation or consulting role.
  • You'll be supported by senior teammates but expected to bring real craft and ownership to everything you touch.

Responsibilities

  • Build and deploy production-grade agents tailored to specific customer use cases
  • Design and run evals to measure agent performance; iterate and hill-climb until results move
  • building and deploying agents, running evals, and iterating until performance actually moves.
  • You'll develop a deep understanding of each customer's business, their workflows, their bottlenecks, where the real leverage is, and help translate that understanding into production-grade AI agents that measurably change how they operate.
  • You'll own meaningful parts of the full stack: building and deploying agents, running evals, and iterating until performance actually moves.

Requirements

  • 2-5 years of engineering experience, with backend depth and some exposure to AI or ML systems in production
  • Familiarity with agent architectures or LLM-based systems, and curiosity to go deeper
  • Comfort with ambiguity, you don't need a perfect spec to start making progress
  • Familiarity with evals, prompt engineering, or AI quality measurement

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
  • Explore our mission, values, and comprehensive US benefits at joinhandshake.com/careers http://joinhandshake.com/careers.
  • 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

  • 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
  • Contribute to customer deployments as part of a small team, developing genuine understanding of their business and workflows
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