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Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise AI

Handshake· Engineering
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San Francisco, CA$155k - $170kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Forward Deployed Engineer embedded inside enterprise customer environments to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI agents, owning end-to-end delivery and becoming a domain expert in the customer's vertical.

Responsibilities

  • Embed directly with enterprise customers as part of a small deployment team, developing deep understanding of their business and workflows
  • Define AI-driven solutions based on real business needs — not theoretical use cases
  • Build and deploy production-grade agents tailored to specific customer use cases, owning end-to-end delivery
  • Design and run evals to measure agent performance; iterate and hill-climb until results move
  • Become a domain expert in your customer's vertical and use that expertise to build better AI over time
  • Work closely with Product and Platform engineers on your team to ship cohesive, reliable solutions
  • Establish engineering best practices, agent patterns, and reusable frameworks that help the forward-deployed team scale output without sacrificing quality
  • Surface insights from deployments that inform Handshake's platform and product roadmap

Qualifications

  • 1-4+ years of engineering experience, full-stack with strong backend depth
  • Real-world experience building and shipping AI applications in production — not just fine-tuning or prototyping
  • 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 — you can zoom out to the business problem and zoom in to the technical solution without losing either thread
  • High ownership mentality — you care about outcomes, not just outputs
  • Strong communication skills — you'll be in the room with senior stakeholders regularly and need to earn their trust quickly

Skills

Required:Engineering experience (full-stack with backend depth)Production AI applicationsAgent architectures and evals

Benefits

  • Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company
  • Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching
  • Family Support: Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching
  • Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend
  • Growth: $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development
  • Remote & Office: Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office
  • Time Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days
  • Connection: Team outings & referral bonuses
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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