Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise AI

The role

You will embed within enterprise customer environments to build and deploy production-grade AI agents. You will define solutions, design evals, and iterate on performance to solve real business needs.

What you will do

• Embed directly with enterprise customers to understand business and workflows
• Define AI-driven solutions based on real business needs
• Build and deploy production-grade agents tailored to specific customer use cases
• Design and run evals to measure agent performance and iterate
• Become a domain expert in customer verticals to build better AI
• Work with Product and Platform engineers to ship solutions
• Establish engineering best practices, agent patterns, and reusable frameworks
• Surface deployment insights to inform the platform and product roadmap

Required 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 and systematically improve AI performance
• Comfort working directly with enterprise customers in ambiguous, high-stakes environments
• Strong systems thinking
• High ownership mentality
• Strong communication skills

Nice to have

• Background at a company with a forward deployment or field engineering model
• Experience building multi-agent systems in production
• Domain expertise in a specific enterprise vertical (recruiting, finance, ops, legal, etc.)
• Familiarity with enterprise security requirements, VPC deployments, or on-prem configurations
• History of building evals infrastructure or AI quality measurement tooling

Benefits

• Equity in a fast-growing company
• 401(k) match
• Competitive compensation
• Financial coaching
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility benefits
• Parental coaching
• Medical, dental, and vision
• Mental health support
• $500 wellness stipend
• $2,000 learning stipend
• Ongoing development

About the company

Handshake powers 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions. Handshake AI works with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data.