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.
Currently tracking 23 active AI roles, down 48% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Technical Lead Manager, Handshake AI Technical Lead Manager for Handshake AI, focusing on building and shipping production AI solutions. This player-coach role requires hands-on coding, system architecture, and team leadership, working with frontier AI labs on data, evals, and AI systems. | Ship | 8 |
| Machine Learning Engineer I This Machine Learning Engineer role focuses on developing and deploying ML models that directly impact user experience and business metrics for a consumer platform. The role involves end-to-end ownership of the ML lifecycle, working with cutting-edge infrastructure like embedding-based retrieval and multi-stage rankers, and contributing to responsible AI practices. | Ship |
| 7 |
| Senior Engineering Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering Senior Engineering Manager to lead and scale a team of Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) focused on customer-facing AI solutions for strategic partners. The role involves building the organizational structure, managing technical execution, and ensuring reliability and maintainability of AI products. | Ship | 7 |
| Staff Forward Deployed Engineer Staff Forward Deployed Engineer role at Handshake AI, focusing on defining and driving technical strategy for engineered solutions to strategic customers, including leading AI labs. The role involves architecting and delivering production-grade systems, setting technical direction, and influencing product and platform architecture. It requires deep customer engagement and scaling forward-deployed engineering as a function, with a strong emphasis on customer-facing AI products. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise 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, contributing to product decisions, and building end-to-end solutions. The engineer will build high-quality, full-stack features, collaborate with Applied AI and Platform engineers, and iterate based on customer feedback. The role requires 2-5 years of product engineering experience with full-stack capabilities and a focus on product quality. | Ship | 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 |