Strategic Projects Lead, CodingRLE

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 a Strategic Projects Lead Coding/RLE youll run multi-week to multi-month coding data initiatives for leading AI and platform teams. Youll coordinate hundreds to thousands of highly skilled SWE Fellows design and own technical evaluation and annotation workflows and be accountable for delivery margins quality and customer relationships.

Youll write and validate coding assessments build rubric-driven code review processes instrument quality signals and quickly adapt workflows when systems and people need to flex to meet deadlines. This role bridges ML/product/engineering and operations hands-on with code fluent with metrics and ruthless about data quality. What youll do:

• Multi-million ARR-equivalent program scope and delivery metrics.

• End-to-end delivery of coding-data programs: scoping assessment design Fellow selection annotation QA customer feedback.

• Design and run technical screens (take-homes unit-test driven tasks live coding) that populate the SWE Talent Bench

• Create rubrics audit processes and tooling to ensure code annotations/model labels meet production quality.

• Create scripts/infrastructure (Python/TypeScript/SQL) to automate QA analytics and reporting.

• 2 years of experience in technical or analytical roles such as software engineering data analytics or technical product. We are also open to people who come out of non technical jobs that have a coding background or degree.

• A technical degree in Computer Science Engineering Data Science or similar and/or hands-on experience with coding (Python SQL or similar).

• Strong coding skills (Python TypeScript/Node Java or equivalent) and practical experience with unit tests CI version control and basic infra.

• Strong analytical and data driven problem solver with a first principles approach to scaling and operational challenges.

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills able to work closely with technical teams and customers while juggling multiple high priority projects.

• Entrepreneurial high ownership mindset with a high degree of agency comfort with ambiguity and pride in end to end outcomes.

• Fast learner with deep curiosity about AI able to quickly pick up complex and technical concepts and stay up to date on LLMs and AI trends.

You dont need to be a full-time engineer in this role but you should be technical enough to reason deeply about systems data quality and tradeoffs and to earn credibility with technical stakeholders.

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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