Jobs at Handshake

Evaluate AI models for cybersecurity risks by crafting adversarial prompts and multi-turn attack chains. Assess model-generated malware, exploit code, phishing content, privilege-escalation scripts, and other offensive tooling for functional correctness and real-world exploitability. Score responses using harm taxonomies, document technical findings, develop evaluation frameworks, and collaborate with AI researchers, red teamers, and policy teams to improve model safety.

Stress-test large language models by crafting adversarial prompts and multi-turn scenarios that expose safety, bias, hallucination, prompt injection, and guardrail vulnerabilities. Evaluate model responses using harm taxonomies and severity rubrics, document findings, refine testing methods, and collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and researchers to improve AI safety and robustness. The role involves regular exposure to disturbing harmful content.

Manage the Bangalore office experience, including vendor sourcing and negotiations, food and pantry programs, budgets, onboarding, visitor support, office supplies, housekeeping, team activities, and employee feedback pilots. The role owns daily office operations, improves workplace programs through experimentation, and serves as the primary contact for vendors, visitors, new hires, and employee requests. This is a five-day-per-week, in-office contract position.

Senior Recruiter responsible for building Handshake’s India team across business, operations, and technical roles. Owns full-cycle recruiting, sourcing, stakeholder partnership, interview coordination, candidate logistics, talent pipeline development, market insights, recruiting metrics, and process development. The role requires supporting cross-time-zone hiring, including evening and overnight interviews, and working onsite in Bangalore three days weekly.

Leads complex AI safety and evaluation programs, establishing quality strategies, annotation frameworks, audit systems, scalable workflows, and operational processes. Manages Strategic Projects Leads and model trainers, makes high-stakes policy and quality decisions, partners with frontier AI labs and senior stakeholders, and drives improvements across safety, throughput, cost, and delivery reliability.

Own the full sales cycle for landing new Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 employer accounts. Build pipeline through outbound outreach, manage named accounts, lead executive conversations, run demos, negotiate complex six-figure partnerships, and close new business. The role requires disciplined forecasting, account planning, relationship building, customer events, and regular travel with high autonomy.

Own Handshake’s Careers communications strategy, including media relations, executive communications, research storytelling, product and partnership launches, partner communications, issue management, and international market support. The role partners closely with senior executives, research and economics teams, product marketing, universities, employers, policymakers, and legal. It requires extensive communications experience, strong reporter relationships, exceptional writing and editing skills, data comfort, sound judgment, and an AI-enabled working style.

Build and scale growth products across onboarding, activation, retention, and notifications. Design distributed systems for millions of users, collaborate with product managers and data scientists on experiments, and ship measurable improvements. Mentor engineers, guide technical direction, and balance rapid iteration with production reliability. The role focuses on backend or full-stack development, experimentation platforms, and consumer-facing growth products.

Design, build, and operate scalable systems for coding evaluations, AI-generated code analysis, data generation, and agentic development workflows. Develop execution, testing, benchmarking, and quality measurement pipelines; make architectural and operational decisions; improve developer tooling; lead projects from concept through launch; and mentor engineers while maintaining high standards for reliability, security, and maintainability.

Leads Handshake AI’s Seattle site operations for approximately 200 employees and 3–4 Area Managers. Oversees security compliance, workforce management, hiring, employee wellbeing, workplace standards, employee relations, and operational excellence. Partners with HR, Legal, Security, Recruiting, Workplace Experience, and technical teams to maintain a secure, compliant, efficient workplace, develop management capabilities, improve reporting and metrics, and support audits, inspections, and customer visits.

Support Handshake’s global privacy program through vendor and subprocessor reviews, privacy assessments, records management, consent and tracking administration, individual rights requests, customer audits, incident response, privacy notices, regulatory monitoring, product and AI reviews, training, and workflow operations. The role collaborates with Legal, Security, Finance, Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success while escalating complex matters for legal review.

Support Finance and Central Operations by building dashboards, reporting, automated data pipelines, reconciliations, controls, and analytics. Analyze revenue, expenses, margins, cash flows, payment volumes, disputes, exceptions, and processing performance. Partner with Finance and Payment Operations to investigate discrepancies, automate workflows, improve data quality, and translate business questions into reliable models and actionable insights.

Own Handshake’s employer-side product marketing strategy, positioning, category narrative, thought leadership, launches, and go-to-market messaging. Lead and develop a team of 3–4 product marketers while partnering with Product, Sales, Marketing, and executive leadership. The role focuses on repositioning Handshake as a strategic hiring partner for employers and CHROs, driving market awareness, adoption, and revenue.

Lead legal support for AI products, platforms, data infrastructure, enterprise offerings, and career technology. Advise product, research, engineering, operations, and go-to-market teams on AI training data, intellectual property, privacy, regulated data, commercial relationships, contractor platforms, and AI governance. Build scalable legal review workflows, playbooks, templates, provenance documentation, and self-service guidance while partnering with commercial counsel and frontier AI labs.

Own full-cycle recruiting for senior and strategic business roles across Operations, Finance, People, Legal, Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, Strategy, and Communications. Partner with executives and hiring managers on sourcing, assessment, market insights, and hiring strategy. Build talent pipelines, deliver strong candidate experiences, maintain recruiting data in Ashby, and improve recruiting workflows through AI, automation, and metrics.

Own the visual and interaction quality of an AI-native recruiting product, from exploration through launch. Lead the Employer design system, maintain alignment between Figma and code, define motion and micro-interactions, and elevate team craft through reviews, pairing, and design principles. Partner with product, engineering, data, and employer-experience designers to create a coherent, enterprise-grade product with strong visual hierarchy, simplicity, and consumer-quality polish.

Build and scale reinforcement learning environment platforms for frontier AI model training and evaluation. Responsibilities include developing backend services, data generation pipelines, modular simulation environments, and reliable infrastructure. The role involves architecture decisions, observability, performance improvements, and collaboration with engineering, research, product, and operations teams across India and the US.

Own Handshake’s ATS integration and data-partnership ecosystem, including strategy, partner sourcing, negotiation, contracting, relationship management, and integration adoption. Shape product and engineering roadmaps, oversee API and data-sharing initiatives, resolve partner issues, support go-to-market teams, and drive partner-influenced revenue. This senior individual contributor role requires expertise in HR or sales technology ecosystems, complex strategic partnerships, integration architecture, commercial terms, privacy, and compliance.

Build and grow Handshake AI’s Fellow community through engagement, advocacy, retention, content, email communications, and crisis response. Own programs such as referrals, advisory boards, and STAR Fellows, while partnering with the AI team to ensure accurate messaging. The role requires consumer-facing marketing, online community growth, strong writing, program design, and sound judgment managing negative sentiment.

Manage foundational HR operations for Handshake AI’s Bangalore team, including employee relations, Indian labor-law compliance, policies, benefits, onboarding, offboarding, workforce planning, and employee lifecycle processes. Resolve routine employee concerns, maintain audit-ready documentation, partner with recruiting and US-based People teams, and escalate complex matters appropriately.