Enterprise AI Forward-Deployed Engineer

Handshake; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing US

Financial Wellness: 401(k) match and/‑

Family Support: Paid parental leave

Wellbeing: Medical, dental, vision, $/

Growth: Learning stipend

Remote & Office: SF office benefits

Time Off: Flexible PTO

Connection: Team outings & referrals

Job summary

Handshake is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer for Handshake AI Enterprise in San Francisco. You’ll embed inside enterprise environments, owning end-to-end AI agent design, deployment, and evaluation to deliver measurable business impact.

We seek engineers with real-world AI production experience, strong backend depth, and the ability to work directly with senior stakeholders. Join a fast-moving team building scalable AI solutions for enterprise customers.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping AI applications in production, not just prototyping.
• Ability to work directly with enterprise customers in high-stakes environments.
• Strong understanding of agent architectures and evals.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

AI production experience

Agent architectures

Enterprise customer facing

Systems thinking

Ownership mindset

Communication skills

Job description

Handshake is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer for Handshake AI Enterprise in San Francisco. You’ll embed inside enterprise environments, owning end-to-end AI agent design, deployment, and evaluation to deliver measurable business impact.

We seek engineers with real-world AI production experience, strong backend depth, and the ability to work directly with senior stakeholders. Join a fast-moving team building scalable AI solutions for enterprise customers.