Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise AI

Job overview

The Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise AI role is onsite in San Francisco, CA, five days per week in the office, with compensation of $220,000–$300,000 per year. The role supports Handshake AI Enterprise, which works with frontier AI labs on complex data and AI training needs. The engineer embeds with enterprise customers to understand their workflows and build production-grade AI agents that address real business needs. By owning solution design, deployment, evaluation, and iteration, the role helps customers improve operations and informs Handshake’s platform and product roadmap.

What you'll do

• Embed with enterprise customers and learn their business workflows
• define AI-driven solutions
• build and deploy production-grade agents
• design and run evaluations and iterate on performance
• collaborate with Product and Platform engineers
• establish reusable engineering practices and frameworks
• share deployment insights to inform product and platform plans.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior forward deployed engineer

enterprise ai

full-time

san francisco ca

handshake

ai agents

production ai

enterprise customers

evaluations

backend engineering

five days in office

$220k–$300k

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Equity
• 401(k) match
• financial coaching
• paid parental leave
• fertility benefits
• medical, dental, and vision coverage
• mental health support
• wellness and learning stipends
• flexible paid time off
• holidays
• commuting support
• free lunch and gym in the San Francisco office.

Why this role

The role owns end-to-end delivery, from defining solutions through deployment and evaluation, rather than focusing only on implementation or consulting.

About the employer

Handshake is hiring for this role. Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Sector: 51.