Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise AI
$220k - $300k • San Francisco, CA • FullTime
Posted 1mo ago
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Handshake AI Enterprise, you will embed directly within enterprise customer environments as part of a small, expert team. Your role involves deeply understanding each customer's business, including their workflows and bottlenecks, to translate this knowledge into production-grade AI agents that measurably transform their operations. This is a full-stack role where you will own the entire process from defining the solution, building and deploying agents, designing evaluations, and iterating until performance targets are met. Over time, you will develop genuine domain expertise in your customer's vertical, leveraging this knowledge to continuously improve AI solutions. This opportunity is ideal for individuals who have a proven track record of building AI applications that work in the real world and are eager to tackle high-stakes challenges with superior data and strong lab relationships.
Responsibilities
- Embed directly with enterprise customers to understand their business and workflows.
- Define AI-driven solutions tailored to 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 enhance AI solutions.
- Collaborate with Product and Platform engineers to deliver integrated solutions.
- Establish engineering best practices, agent patterns, and reusable frameworks for team scalability.
- Provide insights from deployments to inform Handshake's platform and product roadmap.
Requirements
- 5-6+ years of engineering experience with strong backend depth and full-stack capabilities.
- 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.
- Excellent systems thinking skills, bridging business problems and technical solutions.
- High ownership mentality focused on outcomes.
- Strong communication skills for effective stakeholder engagement.
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