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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Hardware Engineer - AI Trainer This role involves evaluating AI-generated content related to electronics design and EDA workflows, providing feedback to improve AI understanding. It requires hands-on experience with KiCad for schematic capture, PCB layout, or embedded hardware design. The work is project-based, flexible, and remote, suitable for independent contractors. | — | 5 |
| Game Developer - AI Trainer This role involves evaluating AI-generated game development content and providing feedback to improve AI understanding of game development tasks and engine workflows. It requires hands-on experience with game development engines and tools, but no prior AI experience is necessary. The work is project-based, hourly, and remote. | Data | 5 |
| Spatial Data Analyst - AI Trainer This role involves evaluating AI-generated spatial data content and providing feedback to improve AI understanding of GIS tasks. It requires QGIS experience and knowledge of spatial data analysis, with no prior AI experience needed. | Data | 5 |
| Mechanical Drafter - AI Trainer This role involves evaluating AI-generated technical drafting content and providing feedback to improve AI understanding of manufacturing workflows. It requires experience with LibreCAD or QCAD CE and 2D technical drafting concepts. The work is project-based, hourly, and remote. | — | 5 |
| Analog Engineer - AI Trainer This role involves evaluating AI-generated content related to analog circuit design and simulation using Ngspice. The contractor will provide feedback to improve the AI's understanding of electronics workflows. No prior AI experience is required, but strong Ngspice and analog circuit simulation skills are essential. | Eval Gate | 5 |
| Digital Illustrator - AI Trainer This role involves evaluating AI-generated content and providing feedback to improve AI's understanding of visual tasks, specifically for digital illustration and concept art workflows using Krita. No prior AI or technical experience is required. | — | 5 |
| Fellow Experience Specialist, India (Contract) This role provides payment, contract, and general support to AI Fellows, focusing on resolving inquiries, managing contracts, and troubleshooting technical issues using tools like Big Query and SQL. It involves analyzing common issues and collaborating with product and ops teams to implement solutions, aiming to improve the overall experience for Fellows and contribute to the AI infrastructure. | — | 5 |
| Senior Payroll Accountant This role is for a Senior Payroll Accountant at Handshake, a company that operates in the AI economy. The accountant will be responsible for managing payroll accounting, journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and financial reporting for global operations. The role requires experience in core accounting fundamentals, payroll-related accounting, and ERP systems like NetSuite. Bonus points for public accounting background, Workday experience, international payroll, and SOX controls. | — | 0 |
| Senior Payroll Accountant This role is for a Senior Payroll Accountant at Handshake, a company that operates within the AI economy. The accountant will be responsible for all payroll accounting and financial reporting globally, ensuring accurate recording, reconciliation, and reporting of transactions. Key responsibilities include preparing journal entries, reconciliations, managing payroll tax liabilities, benefits accruals, and supporting audits. The role requires hands-on Workday experience, a strong understanding of payroll accounting fundamentals, and experience with NetSuite or a similar ERP system. Bonus points for international payroll experience and familiarity with stock compensation accounting. | — | 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 |
| 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 |