Forward Deployed Engineer (Handshake AI Enterprise)

Join Handshake AI Enterprise as a Forward Deployed Engineer, where you'll work directly with enterprise customers to develop AI-driven solutions tailored to their specific business needs. You'll own the full stack, from defining the solution to building and deploying agents, and become a domain expert in your customer's vertical. This role offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, 401k match, equity, and flexible time off.

• Embedd directly with enterprise customers to understand their business and workflows.
• Define AI-driven solutions based on real business needs, and build and deploy production-grade agents.
• Design and run evaluations to measure agent performance, iterating until results improve.
• We're looking for engineers across a range of experience — from those who've already shipped real AI in production, to seasoned engineers ready to set the technical bar for the team
• If you've built AI that works in the real world and want to do it again at much higher stakes — with better data, closer lab relationships, and a founding team that moves fast — this is the role
• Strong communication skills — you'll be in the room with senior stakeholders regularly and need to earn their trust quickly
• Strong understanding of agent architectures, evals, and how to measure and systematically improve AI performance
• Real-world experience building and shipping AI applications in production — not just fine-tuning or prototyping
• High ownership mentality — you care about outcomes, not just outputs
• Comfort working directly with enterprise customers in ambiguous, high-stakes environments
• Strong systems thinking — you can zoom out to the business problem and zoom in to the technical solution without losing either thread
• Full-stack engineering experience with strong backend depth
• 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