Handshake - Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise

• 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 • As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Handshake AI Enterprise, you'll embed directly inside enterprise customer environments as part of a small, expert team. You'll learn each customer's business deeply — their workflows, their bottlenecks, where the real leverage is — and translate that understanding into production-grade AI agents that measurably change how they operate. • This isn't an implementation or consulting role. You'll own the full stack: defining the solution, building and deploying agents, designing evals, and iterating until performance actually moves. Over time, you'll become a genuine domain expert in your customer's vertical — and use that expertise to build AI that keeps getting better. • If you've built AI that works in the real world and want to do it again at much higher stakes — with better data, closer lab relationships, and a founding team that moves fast — this is the role. • Location: San Francisco, CA | 5 days/week in-office • Location: • Embed directly with enterprise customers as part of a small deployment team, developing deep understanding of their business and workflows • Define AI-driven solutions based on real business needs — not theoretical use cases • Build and deploy production-grade agents tailored to specific customer use cases, owning end-to-end delivery • Design and run evals to measure agent performance; iterate and hill-climb until results move • Become a domain expert in your customer's vertical and use that expertise to build better AI over time • Work closely with Product and Platform engineers on your team to ship cohesive, reliable solutions • Establish engineering best practices, agent patterns, and reusable frameworks that help the forward-deployed team scale output without sacrificing quality • Surface insights from deployments that inform Handshake's platform and product roadmap • Desired Capabilities • 5–6+ years of engineering experience, full-stack with strong backend depth • Real-world experience building and shipping AI applications in production — not just fine-tuning or prototyping • Strong understanding of agent architectures, evals, and how to measure and systematically improve AI performance • Comfort working directly with enterprise customers in ambiguous, high-stakes environments • Strong systems thinking — you can zoom out to the business problem and zoom in to the technical solution without losing either thread • High ownership mentality — you care about outcomes, not just outputs • Strong communication skills — you'll be in the room with senior stakeholders regularly and need to earn their trust quickly • Extra Credit • Background at a company with a forward deployment or field engineering model • Experience building multi-agent systems in production • Domain expertise in a specific enterprise vertical (recruiting, finance, ops, legal, etc.) • Familiarity with enterprise security requirements, VPC deployments, or on-prem configurations • History of building evals infrastructure or AI quality measurement tooling • 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.