Forward Deployed Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise
Handshake - San Francisco, CA
Hiring: Forward Deployed Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise Company: Handshake Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 14:44:11 Employment Type: Full-time / Remote Target Skills & Keywords : Fine-tuning, VPC, Zoom About the job Experience: •4+ years of engineering experience, full-stack with strong backend depth Required Skills: •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. •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 Compensation: •$157,000 - $175,000 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) •Equity in a fast-growing company Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!