Director of Engineering

About the Company

Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career. Handshake AI is building the fastest-growing AI data business in history, working directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data.

Responsibilities

• Build, hire, and develop a high-performing engineering team building RL environments and the platform behind them
• Partner closely with Engineering, Research, Product, and Operations teams in the US to execute against a shared roadmap
• Drive architecture for scalable, reliable, extensible environment systems and data generation pipelines
• Build modular, plug-and-play domains that integrate cleanly with training and evaluation loops
• Raise the bar on reliability, observability, performance, and data quality
• Create a culture of ownership, speed, and strong engineering fundamentals

Requirements

• Experience scaling engineering organizations while remaining technically engaged
• Proven people leadership experience hiring and developing senior engineers
• Experience building engineering teams through periods of rapid growth
• Experience partnering with US-based or globally distributed engineering teams
• Strong platform or distributed systems background
• Ability to execute in ambiguous, fast-moving problem spaces

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with RL training infrastructure, simulation systems, or evaluation platforms
• Experience with human-in-the-loop systems (annotation, rubric tooling, QA pipelines)
• Familiarity with AWS/GCP, APIs, Docker, and modern stacks (TypeScript/Node, React)
• Experience building systems used by applied ML or AI research teams

Benefits

• Generous Equity Grant vested over 4 years
• Housing Bonus: 1.3 Lakhs spread throughout the first year
• Well Defined Performance Bonus ranging between 10 - 100% of base
• Medical Insurance Coverage
• Food credit for every in person day