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What they do

Handshake runs a career network for students and early-career job seekers. Employers use it to find and hire new talent. Handshake says that it works with over 1,600 schools and colleges and 1 million employers. In 2025, it started Handshake AI. Handshake AI makes training and test data for frontier AI labs, the companies that build the largest AI models.

What they value

• Students first: job seekers come first.
• Olympic pace: work with urgency and energy.
• Own the outcome: fix what is broken and finish the work.
• Invent and reinvent: handle ambiguity well.
• Leave nothing to chance: try every option.

Where they hire

Most roles are in San Francisco and New York. 15 are in Bengaluru, India, and others in Seattle, Mountain View, Nashville, London, and Sofia. Nine roles are remote in the US. Some San Francisco engineering roles are in the office five days a week. Some sales, customer success, and Bengaluru roles ask for three days. No posting mentions visa sponsorship.

Teams and roles

Engineering has 22 of 78 roles. Employer revenue (sales, account management, and customer success) has 17, and Handshake AI delivery operations has 13.

• Handshake AI engineering: forward deployed engineers build software for frontier AI labs, in Bengaluru, San Francisco, and Sofia. Other engineers build Reinforcement Learning Environments, where AI models learn to do real work.
• Handshake AI research: members of technical staff work on coding agents, evals, post-training, and training data. Evals are tests that measure what a model can do. Post-training tunes a model after its first, large training run.
• Delivery operations: strategic projects leads run large human data programs for AI labs. Some focus on coding, safety, or STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math).
• Safety: remote AI red teamers try to break language models. A Seattle site lead runs an AI trust and safety team of about 200 people.
• Careers engineering: engineers build the products that connect students with employers, and AI hiring tools for employers.

Handshake says that its Bengaluru team grew three times in six months. US roles give pay ranges, such as $220K to $250K for a senior software engineer.

What they look for

About half of the engineering roles ask for distributed systems, TypeScript, LLMs, or AWS or GCP. Many ask for Python, React, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes. Senior roles ask for five to eight years of experience. Most entry roles ask for three. Five roles ask for comfort with AI coding tools such as Cursor and Claude.

Strategic projects roles ask for two to eight years in consulting, operations, or technical work. Coding roles ask for a software or data background. Sales and customer success roles ask for two to six years with B2B SaaS (software sold to businesses as a service) customers. Some sales roles ask for travel.