About Handshake

Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career regardless of where they went to school or who they know. Today we power 25 million job seekers 1 million employers and 1600 educational institutions.

In 2025 we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history. We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations publish benchmarks and push the boundary of data. Weve grown from $0 to $1B run rate and pay $60M to over 30K individuals every month.

Why join Handshake now:

• Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy at global scale with impact your friends family and peers can see and feel

• Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs Fortune 500 partners and the worlds top educational institutions

• Work together with engineers scientists operators and more from Palantir Meta Scale AI and former YC founders

• Build a massive fast-growing business with billions in revenue

About Handshake AI

Human data is the core infrastructure to AI advancement. Frontier AI labs currently improve model capabilities with various data-intensive post-training techniques. We believe that data spend for AI training will increase by 3-5x in the next few years and continue for much longer as models take on new domains. Handshake AI supports all of the frontier AI labs working on their most complex data at the largest scale.

We are building our India team to help accelerate the development of frontier models. This team is a critical strategic investment for us - we have grown the team 3x in the past six months to help fuel our next phase of growth. India-based teammates will work hand-in-hand with US-based teams to scope execute and deliver critical human data projects to Frontier Labs and other customers.

About the Role

Were hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build our Reinforcement Learning Environments (RLE) platformthe interactive systems where frontier AI models learn to complete real-world work.

RLE environments simulate workflows (e.g. software engineering finance legal) with realistic tools constraints and feedback loops. The data generated powers training and evaluation for model quality robustness and task completion.

This is a high-ownership role with direct impact on how models learn and how quickly new domains scale.

What Youll Do

• Build and scale our reinforcement learning environments and the platforms behind them

• Drive architecture for scalable reliable extensible environment systems and data generation pipelines

• Partner with Research Product and Ops to turn ambiguous needs into production systems

• Build modular plug-and-play domains that integrate cleanly with training and evaluation loops

• Raise the bar on reliability observability performance and data quality

What Were Looking For

• 7 years building backend distributed systems or ML infrastructure

• Proficiency with And ReactJS OR TypeScript with deep knowledge of backend architectures.

• Strong command of relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) data modeling system design and distributed systems principles.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS GCP) CI/CD pipelines and operating production systems at scale.

• Strong applied AI experience is required

• Full-stack or backend-leaning engineers preferred.

Nice to Have

• Experience with RL training infrastructure simulation systems or evaluation platforms

• Working in an operations-heavy tech-enabled environment

• Experience supporting applied ML or AI research teams

What Success Looks Like

• RLE becomes a trusted platform for training workflow-capable models

• New domains launch quickly with high-quality data

• Systems are reliable scalable and drive measurable model improvements

Youll Thrive Here If You:

• Are motivated by solving operational problems that have direct measurable impact.

• Want to be part of a company shaping the future of AI through human data.

• Can navigate ambiguity act with urgency and keep multiple workstreams moving in parallel.

Perks:

• Generous Equity Grant vested over 4 years

• Housing Bonus: 1.3 Lakhs spread throughout the first year

• Well Defined Performance Bonus ranging between 10 - 100% of base

• Medical Insurance Coverage

• Food credit for every in person day.

Required Experience:

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