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Your impact

Handshake is expanding into AI research and development, building a world-class network of expert Fellows - PhDs, researchers, and subject matter specialists - who contribute to cutting-edge AI through specialized research, model evaluation, and domain-specific applications. We’re looking for a Software Engineer to build high-impact products that support our Fellows in their work, ensuring they have the tools and infrastructure needed to drive AI innovation.

This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in a fast-growing space, working directly with leading AI labs and tech companies to develop solutions that enhance research workflows, model evaluation processes, and domain-specific AI applications. You will build critical features for products from the ground up, collaborating closely with product, design, and engineering teams to create seamless and effective experiences.

This will be at our San Francisco location and this team is traditionally in the office five days a week.  

Your role

• Your day-to-day work will feature regular collaboration on a cross-functional team with a designer, product manager and other engineers. You will also engage frequently with engineers, support, marketing and data analysts across the organization.
• You will architect and build features that our SMB employers will use daily.
• You will lead by example in maintaining a high standard of quality in your own work and in the feedback provided to peers in code review and architecture discussions.
• You will lend your technical knowledge and experience to influence the team’s roadmap and prioritization of innovation and operational health initiatives such as quality control and on-call.
• You will provide mentorship to engineers and unblock and support your team to meet deliverables.
• You will lead sizable individual projects and projects that require multiple engineers.

Your experience

• You thrive in a high-velocity environment and can execute quickly while maintaining high standards, adapting seamlessly as priorities shift and new challenges emerge.
• You demonstrate ownership-mentality and maintain a high degree of accountability for your work.
• You have experience as a full stack engineer with a focus on frontend, and are confident driving architectural decisions on both frontend and backend.
• You have demonstrated success collaborating with partners in product, design and analytics to define, build, and ship great products and experiences.
• You have experience leading large projects from idea to high quality delivery.
• You act with empathy when working with fellow engineers and coworkers, and enjoy providing mentorship and guidance to enable and support your team.
• You strive for individual and team growth, proactively seeking feedback and identifying areas of the code, processes or procedures that need improvement.
• You are a strong communicator and can articulate technical concepts and rationale to audiences of varying technical knowledge levels.

Bonus areas of expertise

• You have worked with ReactJS, Typescript and PostgreSQL.
• You have worked on LLM products in production.

Compensation range

$190K-$300K
Compensation and level will be based on experience.  

For cash compensation, we set standard ranges for all U.S.-based roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including geographic location as well as candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

About us

Handshake is the career platform for Gen Z. With a community of over 17 million students, alumni, employers, and career educators, Handshake’s network is where career advice and discovery turn into first, second, and third jobs. Nearly 1 million companies use Handshake