Handshake
Enterprise · Student career platform + new AI training data line
- HQ
- San Francisco, US
- Founded
- 2014
- Website
- joinhandshake.com
Enterprise · Student career platform + new AI training data line
Currently tracking 23 active AI roles, down 43% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering.
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).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Strategic Account Manager Strategic Account Manager for Handshake's AI data business, focusing on retaining and growing partnerships with Fortune 500/100 employers. Requires strong consultative relationship management, executive engagement, and strategic account planning in complex enterprise environments. | — | 0 |
| Senior IT Support Analyst This role is for a Senior IT Support Analyst at Handshake, a company that has recently launched Handshake AI. The role focuses on providing Tier 2/3 IT support, scaling IT operations, improving processes, implementing automation, and managing IT systems for a distributed workforce. Key responsibilities include hardware and software support, identity and access management, endpoint management, and driving process and security improvements. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of IT support experience, familiarity with macOS and Windows, and experience with various IT tools and cloud-first environments. A builder mentality and strong communication skills are essential. | — | 0 |
| Senior Recruiter, India Senior Recruiter to support hiring across business, operations, and technical roles for Handshake's India presence. This role will partner with stakeholders, own the end-to-end recruiting process, build pipelines for hard-to-fill roles, and contribute to recruiting process development. Requires 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, preferably in a startup environment, with strong stakeholder management and technical recruiting experience. | — | 0 |
| Senior Security Engineer, IAM Senior Security Engineer, IAM at Handshake. Focuses on architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise identity automation and governance. Will define IAM automation strategy, build lifecycle workflows, and enable secure identity operations across various platforms. Requires strong scripting, IAM platform experience, and understanding of identity protocols. Experience with GCP IAM, Okta Workflows, or PAM is a plus. | — | 0 |
| Senior Security Engineer, Application Security Senior Application Security Engineer responsible for building systems, tools, and automation to embed security into the software development lifecycle in an AI-enabled environment. Focuses on developer-facing tooling, threat modeling, vulnerability management, and leveraging AI/agentic tools to scale security impact. | — | 0 |
| Senior People Systems Partner, Workday This role is for a Senior People Systems Partner focused on Workday administration. The responsibilities include configuring business processes, building reports, running EIBs, maintaining tenant hygiene, and supporting integrations within the Workday system. The role requires deep expertise in Workday Core HCM and ideally one additional module, with a focus on translating business needs into Workday solutions. While the company mentions an 'AI data business' and working with 'frontier AI lab researchers', this specific role is centered on HR systems and does not involve direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Senior Human Resources Business Partner Senior HR Business Partner to support Sales, Marketing, and Education teams across Handshake's business units, including Handshake AI. The role involves scaling culture, processes, and people programs, with a blend of traditional HRBP work and building scaling systems. Requires comfort with ambiguity and rapid change. | — | 0 |
| Operations Program Manager, Central Ops This role is for an Operations Program Manager at Handshake, focusing on operational programs across Trust & Safety, Pay Operations, and Contractor Management. The role involves designing, executing, and improving processes, partnering cross-functionally, and analyzing performance data. While the company has an AI division, this specific role is operational and does not directly involve AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Recruiting Coordinator (Contract) Recruiting Coordinator to support and scale hiring efforts by managing interview logistics, serving as a point of contact, and ensuring a smooth hiring process. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Consumer Experience Staff Software Engineer on the Consumer Experience team to build products connecting students with employers. Drive technical initiatives, shape team direction, and deliver scalable solutions for a fast-growing career platform. | — | 0 |
| Private Equity Analyst - AI Trainer This role involves applying expertise in private equity and investment banking to help improve AI's understanding of professional tasks and language by developing industry-specific prompts and evaluating LLM responses. No prior AI or technical experience is required. | — | 0 |
| Investment Banker - AI Trainer This role involves applying investment banking expertise to evaluate LLM responses and develop industry-specific prompts for AI research, with no prior AI experience required. | — | 0 |
| Senior FP&A Manager Senior FP&A Manager to own Handshake’s corporate finance function, partnering cross functionally to maintain a financial plan across Handshake’s entire business. This role will build and maintain operating models, own long-range planning, manage the three-statement model, drive investor and board reporting, and lead financial reviews. | — | 0 |
| Improv Actor - AI Trainer This role involves participating in a paid, collaborative improv project for an AI company. Performers will improvise scenes and dialogue based on prompts, collaborating with other performers to explore characters, emotions, and subtext. The goal is to test LLMs' understanding by completing tasks that impact frontier AI models. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II at Handshake, a company that powers job seekers, employers, and educational institutions. The role involves owning meaningful pieces of the core product, building systems for user opportunity discovery, employer connections, and career launches. The engineer will work on full-stack experiences, drive features end-to-end, contribute to technical design, and raise the bar for engineers. The company has an AI division that works with frontier AI labs on data for AI training. | — | 0 |
| Biology Expert Seeking Biology PhDs to evaluate AI-generated content and provide feedback to improve AI's understanding of biological reasoning, experimental design, and data interpretation. This is a flexible, hourly contract role with no prior AI experience required. | — | 0 |
| Physics Expert Seeking Physics PhDs for hourly contract work to evaluate AI-generated content for scientific accuracy and physical validity, helping AI improve its understanding of physics concepts. No prior AI experience required. | — | 0 |
| Lawyers Seeking experienced Lawyers to evaluate AI-generated legal content, providing feedback on accuracy, reasoning, and communication to improve AI understanding of legal principles. This is a remote, hourly contract role. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Acquisition & Identity Software Engineer role focused on user acquisition, identity, and fraud prevention systems. The company has an AI division that partners with AI labs for data and evaluations, but this specific role is not directly building AI models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Fellow Experience Software Engineer on the Fellow Experience team to build and scale full-stack systems that power the middle-of-funnel experience for fellows, from project discovery through successful onboarding. This role focuses on improving how fellows discover projects, apply, get matched, and onboard successfully, impacting fellow volume, match quality, and conversion. The work involves full-stack development across frontend and backend, contributing to an automatic allocation system, designing APIs and workflows, and collaborating with product and design. | — | 0 |