Handshake currently has 68 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 60%, are focused on data, with a further 15% in agents. Research and Engineering are the most frequent functions hiring for these positions. Recent hiring activity shows a significant increase, with 23 new AI roles posted in the last 30 days, representing a 92% rise compared to the preceding 30-day period.
Handshake currently has 65 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Music Producer - AI Trainer (2), Strategic Projects Lead, Coding (2), 3D Slicer Specialist - AI Trainer , AI Red Teamer, LLM Generalist, Analog Engineer - AI Trainer. Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Handshake's active AI hiring is concentrated in: data (66%), agents (15%), application (8%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Handshake is hiring AI talent in: United States (22 roles), India (4 roles).
Job postings at Handshake most frequently reference: evals, synthetic data, model serving, agent orchestration, llm observability.
In the past 30 days, Handshake has posted 10 new AI-related roles. That is a -57% change versus the prior 30 days (23 → 10).
Currently tracking 23 active AI roles, down 43% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer II, Fellow Development Software Engineer II on the Fellow Development team at Handshake AI. This role focuses on building the learning, feedback, and community systems that support AI trainers in their work. The engineer will own features end-to-end, from technical design to launch, and collaborate with product, design, and operations teams. The role involves building full-stack systems to facilitate how fellows learn, receive feedback, and improve their AI model training and evaluation processes. The company is experiencing rapid growth in the AI data business, supporting frontier AI labs. | Data | 5 |
| Mid-Market Account Executive I This role is for a Mid-Market Account Executive at Handshake, focusing on selling their early talent recruiting platform to employers. While Handshake has an AI division, this specific role is in sales and involves managing the full sales cycle from prospecting to closing, exceeding quotas, and developing client relationships. The company emphasizes its AI data business and partnerships with AI labs, but the core function of this role is sales, not AI development or research. | — | 5 |
| Staff Product Designer, Employer Experience The Staff Product Designer on the Employer team will be responsible for designing experiences that help employers discover, connect with, and hire early-career talent more effectively. This role is revenue-critical and focuses on shaping how employers attract candidates, evaluate fit, and make hiring decisions, shipping experiences that fuel revenue while expanding access and opportunity for students. | — | 5 |
| Staff Product Designer, Handshake AI This role is for a Staff Product Designer at Handshake AI, focusing on building the vision for operator independence and self-serve tooling within their AI data business. The role involves partnering with various teams to define product strategies, translate insights into investments, and own the design process from concept to production. While the company is heavily involved in the AI space, this specific role is product-focused and does not involve direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Senior Product Designer II, Handshake AI Senior Product Designer II for Handshake AI, focusing on leading design initiatives for a rapidly growing AI data business that partners with frontier AI labs. The role involves end-to-end product strategy and design, data-informed decision-making, and mentoring junior designers. Experience with LLM or AI-powered products is a plus. | — | 5 |
| Entrepreneur, CEO Office This role is for an Entrepreneur to join the CEO Office at Handshake, focusing on building 0-to-1 initiatives across product, GTM, and operations. The candidate will partner directly with founders and the executive team to tackle the hardest problems at Handshake, drive initiatives forward, and contribute to the company's success. Experience as a past founder or early startup employee is preferred. | — | 5 |
| Strategic Account Manager Strategic Account Manager for Handshake's AI data business, focusing on retaining and growing partnerships with Fortune 500/100 employers. This role involves executive alignment, renewal strategy, contract negotiations, account planning, and identifying expansion opportunities within existing strategic customer relationships. The role requires strong business acumen, consultative selling skills, and the ability to navigate complex enterprise environments. | — | 5 |
| Product Manager, Pay and Safety — Handshake AI Product Manager for Handshake AI's Pay and Safety squad, focusing on improving payment accuracy, timeliness, and fraud detection within the AI training marketplace. The role involves owning the roadmap for payment platforms, building a proactive fraud detection system, and developing operator tooling. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Pay & Safety This role is for a Senior Software Engineer on the Pay squad at Handshake AI, focusing on building and owning systems for calculating earnings, generating payouts, and managing disbursements for Handshake AI's global workforce. The role also involves developing a Trust & Safety surface area, including KYC, identity verification, fraud screening, and audit systems. The engineer will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, auditability, and resilience of these critical financial and safety systems, working with microservices and third-party integrations. | — | 5 |
| Senior Platform Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise Senior Platform Engineer responsible for the infrastructure and deployment of AI applications into enterprise customer environments, including VPC, on-prem, and self-hosted configurations. This role involves working with customer IT and security teams to manage compliance and access, and building automation for repeatable deployments. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise Senior Software Engineer on the Handshake AI Enterprise team responsible for the product experience layer of AI applications deployed directly into enterprise customer environments. This role involves working closely with customers to understand their workflows, translate needs into product decisions, and build delightful interfaces. The engineer will collaborate with Applied AI and Platform engineers, iterate based on feedback, and establish product engineering standards. | Ship | 5 |
| Mid-Market Account Executive II This role is for a Mid-Market Account Executive at Handshake, focusing on selling their early talent recruiting platform. While Handshake has an AI division, this specific role is in sales and does not involve building or directly working with AI models. The company is scaling its AI data business and partners with AI labs. | — | 5 |
| Mid-Market Customer Success Manager This role is a Mid-Market Customer Success Manager at Handshake, a company that has launched an AI data business. The CSM will manage a portfolio of customers, focusing on product adoption, risk mitigation, and ROI. They will use data to prioritize efforts, conduct high-impact engagements, and contribute to scalable customer support strategies. The role involves collaborating with Account Managers and synthesizing customer feedback for the Product team. Experience in SaaS Customer Success and managing a large book of business is required. | — | 5 |
| Strategic Customer Success Manager, Federal This role is for a Strategic Customer Success Manager focused on Federal Accounts at Handshake. The primary responsibility is to manage the success lifecycle of complex government agency relationships, driving value realization, strategic alignment, and adoption. This involves onboarding, implementation, relationship management, strategic value delivery, expansion, training, and acting as the voice of the federal customer. The role requires strong account management, communication, and problem-solving skills, with a focus on translating customer needs into product insights. While the company has a significant AI business, this specific role is customer-facing and does not involve building AI models. | — | 5 |
| Computer Science PhDs - AI Trainer This role involves PhD-level computer scientists evaluating AI-generated content for accuracy and relevance in various CS domains. It's a flexible, hourly contract position focused on providing feedback to improve AI understanding, not a traditional research or development role. | — | 5 |
| Physics PhDs - AI Trainer Physics PhDs are needed to evaluate AI-generated content and provide feedback to improve AI's understanding of physics reasoning, proof construction, and technical problem-solving. This is a flexible, hourly contract role. | Post-train | 5 |
| Mathematics PhDs - AI Trainer This role involves Mathematics PhDs evaluating AI-generated content and providing feedback to improve AI's understanding of mathematical reasoning. It's a flexible, hourly contract position focused on content review rather than traditional AI development. | Post-train | 5 |
| Geophysicist - AI Trainer This role involves evaluating AI-generated content related to scientific visualization and computational science tasks. The individual will use their expertise in tools like ParaView to provide feedback and ensure the accuracy and relevance of AI responses. This is a contract-based role focused on data annotation and evaluation to improve AI understanding of scientific workflows. | — | 5 |
| Strategic Projects Associate, India This role is a Strategic Projects Associate at Handshake AI, focusing on operational execution, analysis, and problem-solving to ensure flawless delivery for customers. The role involves managing day-to-day project execution, building expert networks, tracking KPIs, partnering with senior leaders, and implementing process improvements. While the company is heavily involved in AI data for training, this specific role is operational and project management focused, not directly building AI models or systems. | — | 5 |
| Senior Cloud Engineer Senior Cloud Engineer role focused on designing, deploying, and evolving cloud infrastructure, with an emphasis on automation and exploring AI-driven approaches for infrastructure management. The role involves architecting scalable systems, managing CI/CD pipelines, and driving platform improvements. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Operator Tooling This role is for a Senior Software Engineer on the Operator Tooling team at Handshake. The primary focus is on building internal products and automation to enhance operational efficiency and speed. The role requires deep collaboration with operators to understand their workflows and translate needs into technical requirements. Success depends on strong technical fundamentals, high EQ, and the ability to deliver iterative improvements in ambiguous environments. While the company has an AI division, this specific role is centered on internal tooling and operations, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Head of Talent Acquisition Head of Talent Acquisition for Handshake, a company with a significant AI data business. This role leads full-cycle recruiting and advises on recruiting for the Handshake AI (HAI) business. Requires strategic vision, operational rigor, and AI fluency in recruiting practices. Focuses on building scalable recruiting infrastructure, employer brand, and a high-performing TA team. | — | 5 |
| FP&A Manager FP&A Manager to partner with R&D and COGS leaders, focusing on financial models, forecasts, and reporting infrastructure for Handshake's rapid growth, including its AI business. The role involves leading COGS forecasting, designing cost allocation methodologies between Careers and Handshake AI, and partnering with other departments to improve processes and ensure sound investment decisions. Requires strong Excel modeling, SaaS KPI understanding, and experience forecasting COGS/R&D spend, with familiarity in cloud infrastructure and AI cost structures. | — | 5 |
| Chief of Staff, CEO This role is a Chief of Staff to the CEO at Handshake, a company that has launched an AI business focused on providing data for AI training. The role involves driving the CEO's operating rhythm, leading strategic initiatives, building analytical foundations for decisions, and producing executive communications. While the company has a significant AI business, this specific role is not directly involved in building or shipping AI models or systems, but rather in supporting the CEO and the company's strategic growth, including its AI initiatives. | — | 5 |
| Sales Development Representative Sales Development Representative role at Handshake, a company with a significant AI data business. The role focuses on building qualified pipeline for employer partners through outbound and inbound lead generation, managing CRM activities, and collaborating with Account Executives. Requires consistency, accountability, and strong communication skills, with experience in quota-driven roles. | — | 5 |
| Medical Image Analyst - AI Trainer This role supports AI research by evaluating AI-generated medical image content and providing feedback. It requires experience with 3D Slicer and medical imaging concepts, but no prior AI technical experience is needed. The work involves creating questions and reviewing AI responses for accuracy and relevance. | Data | 5 |
| Cartographer/Digital Cartographer - AI Trainer This role involves evaluating AI-generated GIS content and providing feedback to improve AI understanding of spatial data workflows. It requires QGIS experience and is a flexible, hourly contract position for AI training purposes. | Data | 5 |
| Electrical Design Engineer - AI Trainer This role involves evaluating AI-generated content related to electronics design (KiCad/LibrePCB) and providing feedback to improve AI understanding of EDA workflows. It's a contract role for experienced hardware/PCB designers. | Data | 5 |
| Vectorworks Designer - AI Trainer This role involves evaluating AI-generated content related to Vectorworks and architectural design, providing feedback to improve AI understanding of design tasks and AEC workflows. It requires Vectorworks experience and knowledge of architectural design concepts, BIM standards, and CAD workflows. | Data | 5 |
| Rhino 3D Modeler - AI Trainer This role involves evaluating AI-generated 3D models and providing feedback to improve AI's understanding of 3D modeling tasks and industrial design workflows. It requires extensive experience with Rhino 3D and NURBS-based modeling, but no prior AI experience is necessary. | — | 5 |
| Video Content Producer - AI Trainer This role involves evaluating AI-generated video content and providing feedback to improve AI's understanding of video editing tasks. The contractor will use their video editing software experience (Shotcut, OpenShot, Lightworks) to review AI responses for accuracy and relevance, acting as a quality gate for AI development. | Eval Gate | 5 |
| Video Editor - AI Trainer This role involves evaluating AI-generated video content and providing feedback to improve AI understanding of video editing tasks. It requires hands-on experience with specific video editing software (OpenShot, Shotcut, Lightworks) and a working knowledge of video editing concepts. No prior AI experience is necessary, as the focus is on leveraging existing video editing skills to train AI models. | Data | 5 |
| Music Producer - AI Trainer This role involves evaluating AI-generated audio content and providing feedback to improve AI understanding of audio tasks and production workflows. It requires hands-on experience with audio production software like Ardour, Audacity, or LMMS, and a working knowledge of audio engineering concepts. | Data | 5 |
| UI/UX Visual Designer - AI Trainer This role supports AI research by evaluating AI-generated visual content using Inkscape, providing feedback to improve AI's understanding of creative workflows. It requires Inkscape proficiency and graphic design experience, with no prior AI knowledge needed. It's a flexible, hourly contract position. | — | 5 |
| ParaView Specialist - AI Trainer This role involves evaluating AI-generated content related to computational science and HPC workflows, specifically using ParaView for scientific visualization and CFD post-processing. The specialist will provide feedback to improve AI understanding of these tasks. No prior AI experience is required, but strong ParaView and CFD knowledge is essential. | Data | 5 |
| SolveSpace Specialist - AI Trainer This role involves evaluating AI-generated content related to mechanical design and engineering workflows using SolveSpace. The specialist will create questions and review AI responses to improve AI's understanding of these tasks. This is a flexible, hourly contract position for experienced SolveSpace users. | Data | 5 |
| OpenShot Specialist - AI Trainer Contract role for experienced OpenShot users to evaluate AI-generated video content and provide feedback to improve AI understanding of video editing tasks. No prior AI experience required. | Data | 5 |
| BlenderBIM (Bonsai) Specialist - AI Trainer Contract role for BlenderBIM (Bonsai) users to support AI research by evaluating AI-generated content and providing feedback on BIM tasks and AEC data workflows. No prior AI experience required. | Data | 5 |
| FreeCAD BIM/IFC Specialist - AI Trainer Seeking experienced FreeCAD BIM/IFC users to provide feedback on AI-generated content for computational design and AEC workflows. This is a contract role focused on evaluating AI responses and creating tool-related questions. | Data | 5 |
| Qucs-S Specialist - AI Trainer This role involves evaluating AI-generated content related to RF circuit simulation using Qucs-S, providing feedback to improve AI understanding of RF engineering tasks and simulation workflows. It's a contract role for experienced Qucs-S users to support AI research by reviewing and annotating AI outputs. | Data | 5 |
| Shotcut Specialist - AI Trainer This role involves evaluating AI-generated video content and providing feedback to improve AI understanding of video editing tasks. It requires experience with video editing software like Shotcut, color correction, and post-production workflows. No prior AI experience is necessary. | — | 5 |
| Ngspice Specialist - AI Trainer This role involves evaluating AI-generated responses related to Ngspice and analog circuit design, providing feedback to improve AI understanding. It requires expertise in Ngspice and circuit simulation but no prior AI experience. | Eval Gate | 5 |
| Ardour Specialist - AI Trainer This role supports AI research by evaluating AI-generated audio content using expertise in Ardour, an audio software. It involves providing feedback on audio tasks and production workflows, with no prior AI experience required. The work is project-based, hourly, and remote for individuals with audio engineering, music production, or sound design backgrounds. | — | 5 |
| Audacity Specialist - AI Trainer This role involves evaluating AI-generated audio content and providing feedback to improve AI understanding of audio tasks and post-production workflows. It requires hands-on experience with Audacity for audio editing, podcast production, or voice-over recording, but no prior AI or technical experience is necessary. The work is project-based, flexible, and on an hourly contract basis. | — | 5 |
| LMMS Specialist - AI Trainer This role involves evaluating AI-generated music content and providing feedback to improve AI understanding of music production workflows. It requires hands-on experience with LMMS and music composition, with no prior AI technical experience needed. The work is project-based, hourly, and remote within the USA, suitable for independent contractors. | Post-train | 5 |
| Inkscape Specialist - AI Trainer This role involves evaluating AI-generated content and providing feedback to improve AI's understanding of visual tasks, specifically within the context of Inkscape and graphic design. It is an independent contractor position with flexible hours and requires no prior AI experience, focusing instead on user expertise with vector design tools. | — | 5 |
| Krita Specialist - AI Trainer Contract role for experienced Krita users to evaluate AI-generated visual content and provide feedback for AI research. Requires 3+ years of Krita experience and knowledge of digital illustration workflows. No prior AI experience needed. | Data | 5 |
| 3D Slicer Specialist - AI Trainer This role supports AI research by evaluating AI-generated content related to medical imaging segmentation and providing feedback. It requires extensive experience with 3D Slicer and medical imaging concepts, but no prior AI technical experience is necessary. The work is project-based, flexible, and remote. | Data | 5 |
| QGIS Specialist - AI Trainer This role involves evaluating AI-generated content and providing feedback to improve AI understanding of GIS tasks and spatial data workflows. The specialist will use their QGIS expertise to create questions and review AI responses for accuracy and relevance. No prior AI experience is required, but a strong background in GIS and spatial data analysis is essential. | Data | 5 |
| Godot Specialist - AI Trainer This role involves evaluating AI-generated content related to Godot game development and providing feedback to improve AI understanding of game development tasks and engine workflows. It requires hands-on experience with Godot, GDScript, or interactive media, and involves annotating, labeling, and reviewing AI outputs for accuracy and relevance. No prior AI experience is necessary. | Data | 5 |