Handshake

Artificial Intelligence

• Develop and evaluate high-difficulty physics prompts spanning classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, and related areas
• Use adversarial prompting techniques to expose errors in model reasoning and problem-solving
• Provide expert critique of AI-generated responses, assessing both correctness and depth
• Work closely with project leads to uphold quality benchmarks

AI Tutor, Physics Specialist

Procurement

• Own top-of-funnel sourcing for the Growth team, partnering closely on role requirements, intake, and pipeline priorities.
• Source and engage passive talent through creative outreach, boolean search, research, and market mapping — with a focus on technical and STEM-background candidates.
• Provide market insights and strategic guidance, leveraging your close partnership with the team to advise on what’s working, what isn’t, and broader market trends.
• Conduct initial candidate screens and manage handoffs to the project teams.
• Track and report recruiting metrics, ensuring data integrity in Ashby and other tools, and leverage insights to refine sourcing strategies and improve outcomes.

Talent Sourcing Specialist – Contract

AI Engineer

• Partner directly with AI lab researchers to understand their post-training goals and data requirements
• Design and deliver evaluation frameworks, annotation pipelines, and benchmark infrastructure tailored to each lab's training methodology
• Prototype and iterate fast: stand up lightweight experiments, run evals, and interpret results
• Make key design decisions around data quality and evaluation design
• Mentor and uplevel other engineers and researchers on the team
• Identify and document repeatable patterns across lab engagements
• Stay current on the frontier: follow developments in RL, post-training, and benchmarking

Senior AI Forward Deployed Engineer

Security Engineer

• Architect, build, and own automated onboarding, offboarding, and access-change workflows across Okta, Workday, SCIM, and event-driven systems.
• Engineer integration layers between identity platforms and internal applications using Python, REST APIs, Webhooks, and Terraform.
• Implement error-handling, reconciliation logic, telemetry, and monitoring to ensure reliability and determinism in identity lifecycle events.
• Modernize existing provisioning logic and replace manual processes with scalable automation frameworks.
• Develop tooling and pipelines enabling version-controlled, testable, observable IAM automation.
• Act as a technical owner for Handshake’s IAM ecosystem, including Okta, Google Workspace, GCP, AWS IAM, and internal access systems.
• Engineer and optimize authentication & authorization protocols (OIDC, OAuth2, SAML, JWT), fine-grained access policies, and scalable RBAC/ABAC models.
• Build custom automation using Okta Workflows or API-driven orchestration.
• Design SOC2-compliant access controls, approvals, attestations, and auditability mechanisms.
• Build automated access certification systems with full data lineage.
• Conduct identity-related incident forensics and implement preventative automation.
• Provide cross-functional leadership, setting standards, best practices, and reference architectures for identity automation.
• Serve as service owner for IAM automation platforms with accountability for uptime, consistency, and continuous improvement.

Senior Security Engineer, IAM

General

• Review and investigate reports of suspicious, abusive, fraudulent, or policy-violating activity across the Handshake platform.
• Evaluate user accounts, employer profiles, job postings, messages, and other platform activity for potential trust and safety risks.
• Enforce Handshake’s community guidelines, acceptable use policies, and marketplace standards accurately and consistently.
• Identify patterns of abuse, fraud, spam, scams, impersonation, or other harmful behavior.
• Document investigations clearly, including evidence reviewed, actions taken, and rationale for decisions.
• Respond to escalations from internal teams and provide timely, thoughtful case resolution.
• Support queue-based moderation and investigation workflows while meeting quality and productivity expectations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to improve detection, escalation, and enforcement processes.
• Provide feedback on policy gaps, emerging risks, tooling needs, and operational improvements.
• Maintain user privacy, confidentiality, and sound judgment when handling sensitive information.

Trust & Safety Specialist – 6-Month Contract

Research Scientist

• Design, build, and continuously refine a scalable taxonomy of jobs, sub-domains, distinct user tasks, tools, and data used across various job roles.
• Plan and execute both qualitative and quantitative user research to inform and validate the taxonomy.
• Leverage AI-moderated user research tools to conduct, synthesize, and extract qualitative insights from large user cohorts efficiently.
• Apply basic statistical methods to evaluate, rank, and prioritize tasks based on user importance, frequency, and current pain points.
• Partner with Product, Design, AI Research, Operations and Engineering to ensure the taxonomy informs product strategy and feature development.
• Translate complex, multi-layered research data into clear, actionable frameworks, user models, and documentation.

Senior Researcher – Taxonomist

Account Executive

• Develop and cultivate deep relationships with senior executives at executive levels
• Meet or exceed annual quota by generating high volume of meetings with SLG and its large departments and agencies
• Understand a department or agencies’ business drivers, challenges and pain points
• Navigate SLG acquisition processes and contracting
• Schedule, manage and run large department meetings with senior economic buyers within large SLG Departments
• Create proposals, executive briefings, and conduct executive roundtables for HR and business leaders at SLG agencies
• Generate scalable pipeline and revenue to achieve 100% of annual quota attainment
• Lead participation in industry events to drive new business development
• Coordinate large-scale efforts across various departments to drive enterprise-wide agreements
• Utilize Salesforce.com on a daily basis to manage activity, leads, follow-up and pipeline
• Execute new sales activities in support of our market pursuit when requested