Forward Deployed Engineer

Responsibilities

• Embed directly with enterprise customers to develop a 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
• Design and run evals to measure agent performance and iterate for improvement
• Work closely with Product and Platform engineers to ship cohesive, reliable solutions
• Establish engineering best practices, agent patterns, and reusable frameworks
• Surface deployment insights to inform the platform and product roadmap

Requirements

• 1-4+ years of full-stack engineering experience with strong backend depth
• Real-world experience building and shipping AI applications in production
• Strong understanding of agent architectures and evals
• Comfort working directly with enterprise customers in high-stakes environments
• Strong systems thinking and high ownership mentality
• Strong communication skills for interacting with senior stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in forward deployment or field engineering models
• Experience building multi-agent systems in production
• Domain expertise in enterprise verticals like recruiting, finance, ops, or legal
• Familiarity with enterprise security, VPC deployments, or on-prem configurations
• History of building evals infrastructure or AI quality measurement tooling

About the Company

Handshake powers 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions. Handshake AI is a fast-growing AI data business working with frontier AI labs to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundaries of data.