Senior AI Forward-Deployed Engineer (Enterprise)

Handshake; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing co

401(k) match

Parental leave

Wellbeing: medical, dental, vision

Learning stipend

Remote & Office: SF office perks

Flexible PTO

Team outings

Job summary

Handshake is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for Handshake AI Enterprise in San Francisco. You will embed inside enterprise environments, own end-to-end delivery of AI agents, and translate customer workflows into production-grade solutions.

You’ll collaborate with Product and Platform teams, design and run evals, and become a domain expert in customer verticals to drive real AI performance improvements. This role requires close client engagement and on-site work.

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.

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 rollout

Agent architectures

Enterprise engagement

Systems thinking

Ownership mindset

Strong communication

Job description

Handshake is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer for Handshake AI Enterprise in San Francisco. You will embed inside enterprise environments, own end-to-end delivery of AI agents, and translate customer workflows into production-grade solutions.

You’ll collaborate with Product and Platform teams, design and run evals, and become a domain expert in customer verticals to drive real AI performance improvements. This role requires close client engagement and on-site work.