Handshake
AI
AppliedAIEngineer,HandshakeAIEnterprise
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“Applied AI Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise at Handshake. Skills: Applied AI Engineering, production-grade AI agents, evals, customer understanding. Contribute to customer deployments. developing genuine understanding of their business and workflows”
What You'll Achieve.
measurably change how they operate; ship cohesive, reliable solutions; performance actually moves
Industry & Context.
translate that understanding into production-grade AI agents that measurably change how they operate; iterate and hill-climb until results move
5 days/week in-office
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
2-5 years of engineering experience, backend depth, some exposure to AI or ML systems in production, Hands-on experience building and shipping software in production, Familiarity with agent architectures or LLM-based systems, Comfort with ambiguity, communication skills, High ownership mentality
Nice to Have
Any experience building or shipping AI applications in production, Exposure to enterprise environments or customer-facing engineering roles, Familiarity with evals, prompt engineering, or AI quality measurement, Domain knowledge in a specific enterprise vertical (recruiting, finance, ops, legal, etc.)
What You'll Do.
Contribute to customer deployments
developing genuine understanding of their business and workflows
Build and deploy production-grade agents tailored to specific customer use cases
Design and run evals to measure agent iterate and hill-climb until results move
Contribute to engineering best practices
and reusable frameworks
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work closely with Senior Engineers, Product, and Platform teammates to ship cohesive, reliable solutions
Communication Scope
interact with customers regularly; represent the team well
Full Job Description
ABOUT HANDSHAKE Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career, regardless of where they went to school or who they know. Today, we power 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions. In 2025, we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history. We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data. We’ve grown from $0 to ~$1B run rate and pay ~$60M to over 30K individuals every month. Why join Handshake now: - Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel - Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world’s top educational institutions - Work together with engineers, scientists, operators, and more from Palantir, Meta, Scale AI, and former YC founders - Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue About Handshake AI Human data is the core infrastructure to AI advancement. Frontier AI labs currently improve model capabilities with various data-intensive post-training techniques. We believe that data spend for AI training will increase by 3-5x in the next few years and continue for much longer as models take on new domains. Handshake AI supports all of the frontier AI labs, working on their most complex data at the largest scale. ABOUT THE ROLE As an Applied AI Engineer at Handshake AI Enterprise, you'll be part of a small, expert team embedded directly inside enterprise customer environments. You'll develop a deep understanding of each customer's business, their workflows, their bottlenecks, where the real leverage is, and help translate that understanding into production-grade AI agents that measurably change how they operate. This isn't an implementation or consulting role. You'll own meaningful parts of the full stack: building and deploying agents, running e
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