Forward Deployed Engineer I

Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career, regardless of where they went to school or who they know. Today, we power 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions.

In 2025, we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history. We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data. We’ve grown from $0 to ~$1B run rate and pay ~$60M to over 30K individuals every month.

Human data is the core infrastructure to AI advancement. Frontier AI labs currently improve model capabilities with various data-intensive post-training techniques. We believe that data spend for AI training will increase by 3-5x in the next few years and continue for much longer as models take on new domains. Handshake AI supports all of the frontier AI labs, working on their most complex data at the largest scale.

We're hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer I to join our Forward Deployed Engineering team, building production software that helps frontier AI labs solve real-world problems.

You'll partner with senior engineers to develop, deploy, and iterate on customer-facing solutions while working across the full software stack. As part of our growing engineering organization in India, you'll collaborate closely with teammates across India and have opportunities to work alongside Engineering, Research, Product, and Operations teams in the US on high-impact customer initiatives.

This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving challenging technical problems, learning quickly, and building software in a fast-moving, highly collaborative environment.

• Experience collaborating with globally distributed engineering teams, including teams based in the US

• Experience working on customer-facing products or implementation projects

• Experience with AI-powered applications or machine learning infrastructure

• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines

• Experience working in a fast-growing startup or high-growth engineering organization

• Customer deployments launch successfully and deliver measurable value

• Production systems are reliable, scalable, and maintainable

• Engineering work helps accelerate customer adoption and platform growth

• You become a trusted contributor across engineering teams in both India and the US

• You continue to grow technically while helping build Handshake AI's engineering organization in India

• Are motivated by solving operational problems that have direct, measurable impact.

• Want to be part of a company shaping the future of AI through human data.

• Can navigate ambiguity, act with urgency, and keep multiple workstreams moving in parallel.