Senior Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise AI
$220k - $300k • San Francisco, CA • FullTime
Posted 5mo ago
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
As an Applied AI Engineer at Handshake AI Enterprise, you will embed directly within enterprise customer environments as part of a small, expert team. Your role will involve deeply understanding each customer's business, workflows, and bottlenecks to translate this knowledge into production-grade AI agents that measurably transform their operations. This is a full-stack position where you will define solutions, build and deploy agents, design evaluations, and iterate to improve performance. Over time, you will develop deep domain expertise in your customer's vertical, leveraging this to continuously enhance the AI solutions.
Responsibilities
- Embed with enterprise customers as part of a deployment team to understand their business and workflows.
- Define AI-driven solutions based on specific business needs.
- Build and deploy production-grade agents for customer use cases, managing end-to-end delivery.
- Design and execute evaluations to measure agent performance and drive improvements.
- Develop domain expertise in customer verticals to build increasingly effective AI.
- Collaborate with Product and Platform engineers to deliver cohesive solutions.
- Establish engineering best practices, agent patterns, and reusable frameworks for scalability.
- Surface insights from deployments to inform Handshake's platform and product roadmap.
Requirements
- 5-6+ years of engineering experience with strong backend depth.
- Significant applied AI engineering experience.
- Proven experience building and shipping AI applications in production.
- Strong understanding of agent architectures, evaluations, and AI performance measurement.
- Comfort working directly with enterprise customers in ambiguous, high-stakes environments.
- Strong systems thinking ability, bridging business problems and technical solutions.
- High ownership mentality focused on outcomes.
- Strong communication skills for interacting with senior stakeholders.
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 insurance
- Mental health support
- $500 wellness stipend
- $2,000 learning stipend
- Ongoing development opportunities
- Internet stipend
- Commuting stipend
- Free lunch/gym in SF office
- Flexible PTO
- 15 holidays + 2 flex days
- Team outings
- Referral bonuses