Senior AI Deployment Engineer - Enterprise

Handshake; New York (NY); On-site; USD 220,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing co

Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, comp

Family Support: Parental leave, Fertl.

Wellbeing: Medical, dental, vision, $5

Growth: Learning stipend

Remote & Office: SF perks

Time Off: PTO, holidays

Connection: Team outings & referrals

Job summary

Handshake is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed inside enterprise customer environments, building production-grade AI agents and driving end-to-end delivery. You will own solution design, deployment, and evaluation across client workflows, becoming a domain expert in their vertical.

You'll work with Product and Platform engineers, establish best practices, and scale impact while collaborating with leading labs and educational partners. Role is on-site in US with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 5-6+ years of engineering experience, full-stack with strong backend depth.
• Real-world experience building and shipping AI applications in production.
• Strong understanding of agent architectures, evals, and how to measure AI performance.
• Comfort working directly with enterprise customers in ambiguous, high-stakes environments.
• Strong systems thinking and high ownership mentality.
• Excellent communication skills with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Embed directly with enterprise customers as part of a deployment team, developing deep understanding of their business workflows.
• Define AI-driven solutions based on real business needs, not just theoretical use cases.
• Build and deploy production-grade agents tailored to customer use cases, owning end-to-end delivery.
• Design and run evals to measure agent performance and iterate for improvement.
• Become a domain expert in the customer's vertical to build better AI over time.
• Collaborate with Product and Platform engineers to ship cohesive, reliable solutions.
• Establish engineering best practices, agent patterns, and reusable frameworks for scale.
• Surface deployment insights to inform Handshake's platform and roadmap.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Backend depth

AI in production

Agent architectures

Customer-facing comms

Ownership mindset

Job description

Handshake is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed inside enterprise customer environments, building production-grade AI agents and driving end-to-end delivery. You will own solution design, deployment, and evaluation across client workflows, becoming a domain expert in their vertical.

You'll work with Product and Platform engineers, establish best practices, and scale impact while collaborating with leading labs and educational partners. Role is on-site in US with comprehensive benefits.