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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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, 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 |