Senior Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise AI

Job overview

The Senior Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise AI role is onsite in San Francisco, CA, five days per week in the office, with annual compensation of $220,000–$300,000. Handshake AI works with frontier AI labs on data and model evaluation. The engineer embeds with enterprise customers to understand their workflows and deliver production-grade AI agents tied to real business needs. The role owns solution definition, deployment, evaluation, and iteration, while sharing deployment insights and reusable practices with product and platform teams.

What you'll do

• Embed with enterprise customers and learn their business workflows
• define AI solutions based on business needs
• build and deploy production-grade agents
• design and run evaluations and iterate on performance
• develop customer-domain expertise
• collaborate with Product and Platform engineers
• establish reusable agent patterns and engineering practices
• share deployment insights that inform the product roadmap.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior applied ai engineer

enterprise ai

applied ai

ai agents

ai evaluations

full-stack engineering

enterprise customers

production ai

san francisco ca

handshake

$220k–$300k/year

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Equity
• 401(k) match
• paid parental leave
• fertility benefits
• medical, dental, and vision
• mental health support
• $500 wellness stipend
• $2,000 learning stipend
• flexible PTO
• 15 holidays and 2 flex days
• internet and commuting support
• free lunch and gym in the San Francisco office.

Why this role

The role combines direct enterprise deployment work with end-to-end ownership of production AI agents and evaluations.

About the employer

Handshake is hiring for this role. Industry: Custom Computer Programming Services. Sector: 54.