Senior 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. 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.

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
• Become a domain expert in customer verticals to build better AI over time
• 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

• 5-6+ years of engineering experience with strong applied AI and 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 communication skills
• High ownership mentality

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in forward deployment or field engineering
• 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