Handshake
Enterprise · Student career platform + new AI training data line
- HQ
- San Francisco, US
- Founded
- 2014
- Website
- joinhandshake.com
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.
Enterprise · Student career platform + new AI training data line
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AI Red Teamer, LLM Generalist The AI Red Teamer, LLM Generalist role focuses on stress-testing large language models by designing creative, adversarial prompts to expose vulnerabilities in AI safety, guardrails, and robustness. This involves probing models across various risk categories (content safety, CBRN, cybersecurity, etc.) and potentially across different modalities (text, image, voice, agentic). The role requires strong prompt crafting skills, ethical judgment, and collaboration with engineers and researchers to share findings and strengthen defenses. It is a generalist role that may involve working with sensitive content. | Eval GateAgent | 9 |
| Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to embed within enterprise customer environments, define AI-driven solutions, build and deploy production-grade AI agents, and design/run evals to measure performance. The role requires full-stack ownership, deep understanding of customer business, and iteration until performance improves. Emphasis on real-world AI application shipping and systematic improvement of AI performance. | AgentEval Gate | 9 |
| Engineering Manager, RLE This role is for a Senior Software Engineer to build and scale a Reinforcement Learning Environments (RLE) platform. This platform simulates real-world workflows for AI models to learn, generating data for training and evaluation. The engineer will drive architecture, build plug-and-play domains, and ensure system reliability and quality, working closely with research, product, and operations teams. Strong applied AI experience is required. | DataEval Gate | 8 |
| Manager Strategic Projects India Manager for a team of Strategic Project Leads (SPLs) focused on AI data and evaluation projects. The role involves leading delivery, quality, and scalability, managing a team, translating needs into project plans, owning performance metrics, and partnering with Product and Engineering. The role operates in a high-pressure, fast-changing environment with a focus on operational excellence and continuous improvement in AI data pipelines and labeling workflows. | DataEval Gate | 8 |
| Senior Product Manager, RL Environments — Handshake AI Senior Product Manager to own the product surface that turns RL environment creation from a bespoke, weeks-long lift into a repeatable factory. This role will design and ship the platform that compresses lead time, replaces hand-built workflows with self-serve tooling, and lets a small team of operators turn out high-quality environments for any vertical. | DataEval Gate | 8 |
| Applied AI Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise Applied AI Engineer role focused on building and deploying production-grade AI agents within enterprise customer environments. The role involves understanding customer business needs, developing agents, running evaluations, and iterating on performance to drive measurable business impact. Requires backend engineering depth and experience with AI/ML systems in production. | Agent | 8 |
| Senior Applied AI Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise Senior Applied AI Engineer role focused on embedding within enterprise customer environments to build and deploy production-grade AI agents. The role involves defining AI-driven solutions, owning end-to-end delivery, designing and running evaluations, and iterating on performance. It requires strong applied AI and backend experience, with a focus on real-world application and systems thinking. | Agent | 8 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise Forward Deployed Engineer to embed within enterprise customer environments, define AI-driven solutions, build and deploy production-grade AI agents, and design evals to measure and improve performance. The role requires full-stack capabilities with strong backend depth and real-world experience shipping AI applications. | AgentEval Gate | 8 |
| Software Engineer, Agentic Infrastructure Software Engineer focused on building the core agent orchestration layer, including tool use, memory, and multi-step reasoning systems, to power AI-driven features for millions of users. The role also involves designing evaluation, observability, and reliability frameworks for agent behavior and establishing engineering standards for agentic development. | Agent | 8 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Infrastructure Senior Software Engineer to architect and build the foundational systems for AI agents, including tool use, memory, and multi-step reasoning. The role involves designing evaluation and observability frameworks, establishing engineering standards for agentic development, and partnering with ML/product teams to ship agent-powered features. | Agent | 8 |
| 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 |
| Staff Software Engineer, RLE Staff Software Engineer to lead the architecture and evolution of Handshake's Reinforcement Learning Environments (RLE) platform, focusing on scalable systems, data pipelines, and enabling rapid domain creation for frontier AI models. This role involves technical leadership, system design, and cross-team collaboration to ensure reliability, observability, and performance. | DataEval Gate | 8 |
| Senior Engineering Manager, Reinforcement Learning Environments (RLE) Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Reinforcement Learning Environments (RLE) team, responsible for building interactive sandboxes that simulate end-to-end workflows for frontier models. The team generates high-signal interaction data used for training and evaluating models on task completion, quality, and robustness. The role involves leading a team of engineers, owning the RLE roadmap, driving architecture for scalable systems, and ensuring reliability and data quality. | Post-trainEval Gate | 8 |
| Data Development, Principal This Principal Data Development role focuses on sourcing, negotiating, and closing data partnerships with companies and institutions to supply proprietary real-world data to frontier AI labs for training next-generation AI models. The role involves translating data requirements between AI labs and enterprise leaders, structuring commercial and compensation models, and managing senior stakeholder relationships. | Data | 7 |
| Senior Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering Senior Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering at Handshake AI. This role involves technical leadership and people management for a team of 10+ engineers focused on customer-facing AI solutions. The manager will contribute to technical strategy, architecture, and code, while also developing the team and defining the FDE operating model. The role requires strong technical credibility, customer engagement skills, and experience in building reusable platforms. | Agent | 7 |
| Strategic Projects Lead This role is responsible for owning the execution of large-scale human data programs that directly power frontier AI model training and evaluation. The role involves managing hundreds to thousands of expert Fellows, designing staffing models, and partnering with AI labs and senior stakeholders to deliver programs with significant ARR-equivalent impact. The ideal candidate has a technical background, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and experience in technical or analytical roles. | Data | 7 |
| Strategic Projects Lead, Coding This role leads coding data initiatives for AI and platform teams, managing SWE Fellows, designing evaluation workflows, and ensuring delivery, margins, and quality. It involves writing coding assessments, building review processes, instrumenting quality signals, and adapting workflows. The role requires strong technical and analytical skills, with experience in coding, data quality, and stakeholder management, bridging ML/product/engineering and operations. | Data | 7 |
| Senior Forward Deployed Engineer Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Handshake AI, focusing on technical leadership for AI lab deployments. This role involves understanding customer needs, architecting and building solutions, and scaling them for production, operating across the stack in ambiguous environments. Experience with LLMs and customer-facing roles is highly valued. | Agent | 7 |
| Strategic Projects Lead, Coding This role involves leading coding data initiatives for AI and platform teams, coordinating SWE Fellows, designing and owning technical evaluation and annotation workflows, and ensuring delivery, margins, quality, and customer relationships. Responsibilities include writing and validating coding assessments, building rubric-driven code review processes, instrumenting quality signals, and adapting workflows. The role requires strong technical and analytical skills, coding proficiency, and stakeholder management. | Data | 7 |
| Technical Lead Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering Technical Lead Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering at Handshake AI. This player-coach role involves shipping end-to-end AI solutions for strategic partners, designing and building integrations, tooling, APIs, and workflows, and managing a small team of FDEs. The focus is on building production-ready systems and scaling team output through reusable components, while staying hands-on with coding. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer, RLE Senior Software Engineer to build and scale Reinforcement Learning Environments (RLE) platform, simulating real-world workflows for AI model training and evaluation. This role involves driving architecture for scalable systems and data generation pipelines, partnering with research and product teams, and ensuring system reliability and observability. | DataEval Gate | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer, FDE Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to serve as a technical leader at the intersection of engineering and strategic customers (leading AI labs). Owns end-to-end lifecycle of high-impact deployments, architecting, building, and scaling solutions to improve customer workflows and model performance. Operates across the stack in ambiguous, fast-changing environments. | Agent | 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 |
| Manager, Strategic Projects Manager, Strategic Projects leading a team focused on AI data and evaluation work. Responsibilities include managing SPLs, driving project delivery (data pipelines, labeling workflows), translating needs into plans, owning performance metrics, ensuring a good experience for fellows, and partnering with Product/Engineering on tooling. Success involves consistent delivery, improved operational metrics, and strong team leadership. Requires 5+ years in operations, 2+ years managing teams, and experience with complex projects, ideally in AI data operations or ML ops. | DataEval Gate | 7 |
| Data Partnership Specialist Handshake AI is building a data business to supply proprietary, real-world data to frontier AI labs. This role is for a Data Partnership Specialist responsible for identifying, pitching, negotiating, and closing data partnerships with companies and institutions. The specialist will translate between AI lab data requirements and enterprise data availability, managing complex deals end-to-end and ensuring compliance with data licensing, privacy, and anonymization terms. The role requires strong business development, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, with a focus on measurable impact and high standards. | — | 5 |
| Senior Learning Design Lead This role focuses on designing and delivering training materials for AI data projects, ensuring quality and efficiency in data annotation processes. The Senior Learning Design Lead will embed with operations teams, create playbooks and courses, and drive quality initiatives across cross-functional partners. A key aspect is translating complex technical concepts into effective learning experiences for AI data operations. | Data | 5 |
| Learning Architect, Quality Systems This role focuses on designing and deploying training materials for AI data projects, ensuring quality and consistency across teams. It involves embedding with operations, creating playbooks and courses, facilitating knowledge transfer, conducting design reviews, and enabling operators. The goal is to improve the quality of data annotation and AI-generated content. | — | 5 |
| Public Sector Account Director This role is for a Public Sector Account Director at Handshake, a company that has launched an AI data business. The role focuses on building and closing deals within the US government sector, developing relationships with key stakeholders, and driving sales processes. While the company is involved in AI, this specific role is sales-focused and does not involve building AI models or systems. | — | 5 |
| Senior Manager, Field & Event Marketing This role is for a Senior Manager of Field and Event Marketing at Handshake, focusing on both their Careers business and their Handshake AI business. The role involves end-to-end strategy and execution of marketing events to build pipeline and deepen customer relationships. The candidate should be comfortable with strategy and execution, thrive in fast-moving environments, and actively use AI tools to work smarter. | — | 5 |
| Strategic Projects Lead This role is for a Strategic Projects Lead at Handshake AI, focusing on executing large-scale human data programs that power frontier AI model training and evaluation. The role involves managing large teams, designing operational workflows, and partnering with AI labs and technology companies to ensure program success, revenue, margins, and quality. While the company is heavily involved in AI, this specific role is operational and project management focused, not directly building AI models or systems. | — | 5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |