Applied AI Engineer

About the Company

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. Handshake AI is a fast-growing AI data business working directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to customer deployments as part of a small team, 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 performance; iterate and hill-climb until results move
• Work closely with Senior Engineers, Product, and Platform teammates to ship cohesive, reliable solutions
• Contribute to engineering best practices, agent patterns, and reusable frameworks as the team scales
• Surface insights from deployments that inform Handshake's platform and product roadmap

Requirements

• 2-5 years of engineering experience with backend depth
• 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 and high ownership mentality
• Strong communication skills for regular customer interaction

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 enterprise verticals like recruiting, finance, ops, or legal