Handshake
Jobs, news, and who works there
As of 2026-09-29, Skillenai has indexed 72 Handshake job postings over the past 90 days (up 87% vs the prior 4 weeks). Handshake appeared in 28 news articles in the same window.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-29
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Hiring at Handshake
Weekly Handshake job postings — last 90 days
Roles Handshake is hiring for
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 21 | 29.2% |
| AI Red Teamer | 9 | 12.5% |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | 5 | 6.9% |
| Product Designer | 5 | 6.9% |
| Engineering Manager | 3 | 4.2% |
| Machine Learning Engineer | 3 | 4.2% |
| AI Policy Generalist | 2 | 2.8% |
| Applied AI Engineer | 2 | 2.8% |
| Cybersecurity Red Teamer | 2 | 2.8% |
| AI Engineer | 1 | 1.4% |
Skills in Handshake job postings
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Python | 24 | 33.3% |
| AWS | 16 | 22.2% |
| GCP | 16 | 22.2% |
| TypeScript | 15 | 20.8% |
| PostgreSQL | 12 | 16.7% |
| data modeling | 10 | 13.9% |
| Content moderation | 10 | 13.9% |
| React | 10 | 13.9% |
| LLMs | 9 | 12.5% |
| Distributed systems | 9 | 12.5% |
| LLM APIs | 8 | 11.1% |
| CI/CD | 8 | 11.1% |
| design systems | 8 | 11.1% |
| systems thinking | 8 | 11.1% |
| System design | 8 | 11.1% |
Where Handshake is hiring
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 43 | 59.7% |
| Seattle | 6 | 8.3% |
| New York City | 1 | 1.4% |
| Sofia | 1 | 1.4% |
| Toronto | 1 | 1.4% |
Who works at Handshake
From the career profiles Skillenai holds for current staff. Small groups are withheld.
Skills on staff profiles
- Large Language Models (LLMs)28%
- Evaluation13%
- prompt engineering10%
- testing10%
- machine learning8%
- JavaScript5%
- TypeScript5%
- rubrics5%
- evaluation criteria5%
- bioinformatics5%
- LLM performance5%
- Ruby on Rails5%
- fine-tuning5%
- AI systems5%
- error analysis5%
- GraphQL5%
Share of observed positions at Handshake that list the skill.
Degree level
- Master10
- PhD7
- Bachelor5
- High School1
- Other Professional1
Field of study
- Mechanical Engineering Technology1
- Physics1
- Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine1
- Artificial Intelligence in Business1
- Astrophysics1
- Bioinformatics and Data Science1
- Computer Information Systems1
- Computer Science1
Schools
- New York University3
- University of California, Los Angeles2
- University of Cincinnati2
- Arizona State University2
- UC San Diego2
- Mahidol University1
- Boston University1
- Brown University1
Handshake in the news
28 news articles and 24 blog posts mentioned Handshake in the last 90 days.
News
- AI Training-Data Startup Micro1 Reportedly Hits $4B Valuationen.wowtale.net · September 26, 2026
- Flashcards, quizzes, and a project students can buildedunewsletter.openai.com · September 24, 2026
- Snorkel AI Raises $350M Series E, Triples Valuation to $3.5Ben.wowtale.net · September 23, 2026
- UBS Raises the Bar: AI Proficiency Now Required for 2027 Junior Bankerswebpronews.com · September 8, 2026
- Pengana trust reveals frontier AI lab investmentinvestordaily.com.au · September 8, 2026
- ☕🤖 Claude Fable 5.1 Is Here: Anthropic’s Most Capable Model Yettheaibreak.substack.com · September 3, 2026
Blogs
- Coding Agents Are Learning to Please the Graderdevelopersdigest.tech · September 26, 2026
- Handshake’s AI Skills Studio Turns AI Training Into Hiring Evidencetheaieconomy.substack.com · September 22, 2026
- How to become a Cybersecurity AI Forward Deployed Engineerpractical-devsecops.com · September 17, 2026
- AI Won’t Replace Junior Developers, But It Will Redefine System Design Apprenticeshipbanandre.com · December 18, 2025
- Tufts Career Center | Employer-Student Networking Breakfast Eventcareers.tufts.edu · September 9, 2026
- Entry-Level Software Engineer Job Market Statistics 2026rockstardeveloperuniversity.com · April 13, 2026
How this was computed
Job counts are postings whose employer resolves to Handshake over the 90 days ending 2026-09-29; mentions are news and blog documents that resolve to the same entity. Career-profile aggregates come from the Skillenai talent graph with the same suppression the talent-graph API applies.
- note
- Observed profiles counts the career profiles Skillenai holds at this company, not its employee count.
- source
- Skillenai jobs, news and blog indices; Skillenai career-profile corpus
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