Applied AI Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise

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 1600 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. Weve grown from $0 to $1B run rate and pay $60M to over 30K individuals every month.

Why join Handshake now:

• Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy at global scale with impact your friends family and peers can see and feel

• Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs Fortune 500 partners and the worlds top educational institutions

• Work together with engineers scientists operators and more from Palantir Meta Scale AI and former YC founders

• Build a massive fast-growing business with billions in revenue

About Handshake AI

Human data is the core infrastructure to AI advancement. Frontier AI labs currently improve model capabilities with various data-intensive post-training techniques. We believe that data spend for AI training will increase by 3-5x in the next few years and continue for much longer as models take on new domains. Handshake AI supports all of the frontier AI labs working on their most complex data at the largest scale.

As an Applied AI Engineer at Handshake AI Enterprise youll be part of a small expert team embedded directly inside enterprise customer environments. Youll develop a deep understanding of each customers 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.

This isnt an implementation or consulting role. Youll own meaningful parts of the full stack: building and deploying agents running evals and iterating until performance actually moves. Youll be supported by senior teammates but expected to bring real craft and ownership to everything you touch.

If youve built AI that works in the real world and want to do it at higher stakes with better data closer lab relationships and a founding team that moves fast this is the role.

• Location: San Francisco CA 5 days/week in-office

What Youll Do

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

• 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

• Work closely with Senior Engineers Product and Platform teammates to ship cohesive reliable solutions

• Contribute to engineering best practices agent patterns and reusable frameworks as the team scales

• Surface insights from deployments that inform Handshakes platform and product roadmap

What Were Looking For

• 2-5 years of engineering experience with backend depth and some exposure to AI or ML systems in production

• Hands-on experience building and shipping software in production you care about whether it actually works

• Familiarity with agent architectures or LLM-based systems and curiosity to go deeper

• Comfort with ambiguity you dont need a perfect spec to start making progress

• Strong communication skills youll interact with customers regularly and need to represent the team well

• High ownership mentality you care about outcomes not just closing tickets

Extra Credit

• Any experience building or shipping AI applications in production

• Exposure to enterprise environments or customer-facing engineering roles

• Familiarity with evals prompt engineering or AI quality measurement

• Domain knowledge in a specific enterprise vertical (recruiting finance ops legal etc.)

Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supportedand 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: $2000 learning stipend ongoing development

Remote & Office: Internet commuting and free lunch/gym in our SF office

Time Off: Flexible PTO 15 holidays 2 flex days

Connection: Team outings & referral bonuses

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