Handshake
AI
SeniorAppliedAIEngineer,HandshakeAIEnterprise
“Senior Applied AI Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise at Handshake. Skills: Applied AI, Backend Engineering, Production AI Applications, Agent Architectures, Evals, Customer Interaction. Embed directly with enterprise customers as part of a small deployment team. developing deep understanding of their business and workflows”
What You'll Achieve.
measurably change how they operate; performance actually moves; AI that keeps getting better; scale output without sacrificing quality
Industry & Context.
systems thinking, you can zoom out to the business problem and zoom in to the technical solution without losing either thread
5 days/week in-office
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5-6+ years of engineering experience, applied AI and backend depth, Real-world experience building and shipping AI applications in production, understanding of agent architectures, understanding of evals, understanding of how to measure and systematically improve AI performance, Comfort working directly with enterprise customers in ambiguous, high-stakes environments, systems thinking, High ownership mentality, communication skills
Nice to Have
Background at a company with a forward deployment or field engineering model, Experience building multi-agent systems in production, Domain expertise in a specific enterprise vertical (recruiting, finance, ops, legal, etc.), Familiarity with enterprise security requirements, Familiarity with VPC deployments, Familiarity with on-prem configurations, History of building evals infrastructure, History of building AI quality measurement tooling
What You'll Do.
Embed directly with enterprise customers as part of a small deployment team
developing deep understanding of their business and workflows
Define AI-driven solutions based on real business needs
Build and deploy production-grade agents tailored to specific customer use cases
owning end-to-end delivery
Design and run evals to measure agent iterate and hill-climb until results move
Become a domain expert in your customer's vertical
use that expertise to build better AI over time
Work closely with Product and Platform engineers on your team to ship cohesive
Establish engineering best practices
Establish agent patterns
Establish reusable frameworks that help the team scale output without sacrificing quality
Surface insights from deployments that inform Handshake's platform and product roadmap
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work closely with Product and Platform engineers on your team to ship cohesive, reliable solutions
Communication Scope
communication skills; in the room with senior stakeholders regularly and need to earn their trust quickly
Process & Methodology
owning end-to-end delivery
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