Handshake - Senior Engineering Manager, Handshake AI
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Requirements
• Engineering leader + builder: 3+ years managing teams, plus 5+ years hands-on engineering experience • Engineering leader + builder: • Strong people leadership: experience leading senior engineers; managing an EM (or equivalent scope) is a plus • Strong people leadership: • Execution in ambiguity: proven ability to align cross-functionally and deliver in fast-moving, unclear problem spaces • Execution in ambiguity: • Systems + product mindset: strong platform/distributed systems background, and the ability to turn research/ops needs into a clear roadmap, ship iteratively, and measure outcomes • Systems + product mindset: • Experience with RL training infrastructure, simulation systems, or evaluation platforms • Human-in-the-loop systems (annotation, rubric tooling, QA pipelines, workflow platforms) • Operations-heavy, tech-enabled environment experience • Experience building systems used by applied ML or AI research teams
Responsibilities
• Lead, hire, and develop a high-performing engineering team building core product and platform infrastructure • Own roadmap and execution in close partnership with Product, Research, and Operations • Drive architecture and technical strategy for scalable, reliable, and extensible systems • Build modular platforms that enable new domains, workflows, and partners to launch quickly • Raise the bar on engineering quality across reliability, observability, performance, and data integrity • Foster a culture of ownership, velocity, and strong engineering fundamentals in a fast-moving, ambiguity-heavy environment
Benefits
• Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel • Work hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world’s top educational institutions • Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue • The Senior Engineering Manager at Handshake AI leads a core product and platform engineering team responsible for building the systems that integrate human expertise into AI development workflows. • Senior Engineering Manager at Handshake AI • This team owns critical infrastructure that connects talent networks, data operations, and research needs into scalable, reliable, and high-quality platforms. The role sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and operations, ensuring our systems can support rapid growth, complex workflows, and frontier AI partners. You’ll lead a team of ~9 engineers today and are expected to add leadership capacity (including managing an EM) as we scale. • ~9 engineers • Location: San Francisco, CA. This is an in-office role, 5 days/week (no remote/hybrid) • Location: • This is an in-office role, 5 days/week (no remote/hybrid) • Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supported—and thrive at work and in life. • The below benefits are for full-time US employees. • 🎯 Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company • Ownership: • 💰 Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching • Financial Wellness • 🍼 Family Support: Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching • Family Support: • 💝 Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend • Wellbeing: • 📚 Growth: $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development • Growth: • 💻 Remote & Office: Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office • Remote & Office: • 🏝 Time Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days • Time Off: • 🤝 Connection: Team outings & referral bonuses • Connection: • Explore our mission, values, and comprehensive US benefits at joinhandshake.com/careers.
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