Senior Enterprise AI Deployment Engineer

Handshake; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership

Financial wellness

Family support

Wellbeing

Growth

Remote & Office

Time off

Connection

Job summary

Handshake seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer for Handshake AI Enterprise to embed within large enterprise customers and translate business workflows into production-grade AI agents. You will own solution design, deployment, evals, and continuous improvement while becoming a domain expert in the customer's vertical.

You will collaborate with Product and Platform engineers to ship cohesive solutions, establish best practices, and scale output without compromising quality in a fast-moving startup

Qualifications

• 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.

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

Years of experience

Full-stack engineering

AI in production

Agent architectures

Customer-facing

Systems thinking

Ownership mindset

Excellent communication

Job description

Handshake seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer for Handshake AI Enterprise to embed within large enterprise customers and translate business workflows into production-grade AI agents. You will own solution design, deployment, evals, and continuous improvement while becoming a domain expert in the customer's vertical.

You will collaborate with Product and Platform engineers to ship cohesive solutions, establish best practices, and scale output without compromising quality in a fast-moving startup