Member of Technical Staff, Handshake
Evals
$200-350k
+ Offers Equity
The career platform for Gen Z
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The career platform for Gen Z
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$200-350k
+ Offers Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To democratize access to opportunity and ensure any student can build a great career no matter who they know, where they live or what school they attend.
Role
Who you are
- PhD in ML/AI, computer science, data science, or related fields (or equivalent research experience in industry)
- Publications at top AI/ML venues like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, COLM
- Builders who enjoy tinkering with agents and shipping high-quality software, benchmarks, or datasets (e.g. a strong GitHub profile / OSS contributions, or product portfolio)
- Strong Python skills, experience building scalable software, working with agents
- Strong knowledge of frontier AI: benchmarks, eval techniques, agent harnesses, post-training recipes, data shapes
- Comfort operating in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment with substantial ownership
- Work at the very frontier of AI with most major AI labs, researching some of the most important problems in Data and Evaluations
- Publish results and work in public through open-source benchmarks and software, papers, and blogs
- Join a rapidly growing company whose data business grew from zero to nearly $1B run rate in a year
- Help build an early technical organization where your work shapes the roadmap, standards, and culture
- Attend (and publish at) conferences like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, COLM
What the job involves
- We are hiring a Member of Technical Staff, Evals to help define how frontier AI systems are measured, understood, and improved
- This is a broad, high-ownership role for researchers who build
- You will partner with AI researchers, domain experts, and customers to develop new benchmarks, reward and verifier systems, agent-evaluation methodologies, and data-quality techniques
- You will work on questions at the center of frontier AI progress: what should be measured, how to design evaluations that reflect real capability, how to create high-signal feedback, and how to build the environments and data systems that make those answers actionable
- Early members of the team will have unusual influence over our technical direction, operating culture, and the open-source software, benchmarks, and research products we build
- We care more about demonstrated research capability, technical judgment, and a builder's mindset than a specific title, degree, or career path
- Design and build evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and methodologies for frontier LLMs, AI agents, multimodal models, and reinforcement-learning environments
- Develop reward models, programmatic verifiers, graders, and other feedback systems that make model behavior measurable and improvable
- Research what makes evaluations representative, difficult, reliable, and resistant to shortcutting or reward hacking
- Build systems for high-quality human data, including expert task design, annotation methodologies, data-quality signals, and data-attribution techniques
- Run fast, rigorous iteration loops: prototype, evaluate, interpret results, diagnose failure modes, and turn learnings into the next benchmark or system
- Publicly contribute to the field through benchmarks, open-source tools, research, and technical writing
Our take
The three founders of Handshake established their company in an attempt to eliminate inequality and make the student hiring landscape fairer. The Handshake platform acts as a LinkedIn for college students, pairing students from every walk of life with more than 650K employers, including the entire Fortune 500, which includes Google and Nike.
The graduate recruitment platform is open to any student with a valid @.edu email address, with more than 17M active users from thousands of colleges and universities. With a student-first philosophy, the company generates revenue from both universities and employers rather than students.
Valued at $3.5B, Handshake has gained traction in a competitive market, although it has strong competition from recruiting giants LinkedIn and Indeed. It stands out, however, by helping students build new relationships and skills, rather than simply making connections to people they already know.
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Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2022
$200m
SERIES F
May 2021
$80m
SERIES E
Total funding: $434m
Company benefits
- Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical , dental, and vision coverage
- Fertility and family forming: Through a partnership, Handshake offers comprehensive family benefits, including infertility treatments and a $15K stipend, to its employees.
- LGTBQ+ coverage: All medical plans cover transgender services.
- Mental health: Discounts on a variety of wellness apps and an Employee Assistance Program with access to five free counseling sessions.
- Tax savings: Tax-advantaged benefits to save money on healthcare, dependent care, and other expenses.
- Learning & development: Employees are provided with an annual stipend to use towards professional development, career development workshops, manager trainings, and 1-on-1 coaching through external partnerships
- Community leader support: Employee Resource Group leaders are compensated with a quarterly bonus for the high-impact work the role requires
- Parental leave: Leaves of 16 weeks for birth-giving parents and 10 weeks for non-birth-giving parents; the policy applies to adoptions as well. Handshake also partners to provide one-on-one coaching on preparing for leave and coming back from leave
- Flexible time off: No accrued time off or waiting period to take vacation. Two paid flexible holiday days off to observe holidays that closely align with religious, cultural, and personal needs
- Sabbatical: Paid six-week sabbatical to recharge and reset beginning at six years of continuous, full-time employment, and every four years thereafter
- Volunteer time off: Two days off for social and civil activism, volunteer work, and/or any related activities, including attending and participating in protests
- Life & disability insurance: Essential benefits and automatic coverage with basic life insurance, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- 401k match: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 1% of pay, with a max of $1,200 per year.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Garrett Lord
(Co-Founder & CEO)Majored in Computer Science at Michigan Technological University. Interned at Palantir Technologies before co-founding Handshake in 2012.
Ben Christensen
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Michigan Technological University with a degree in Computer Networking & Systems Administration. Interned at Target and worked as a Developer at Up and Running Software. Was part of Arbor Networks' ASERT Security Research team.
Scott Ringwelski
(Co-Founder)Attained a degree in Computer Software Engineering from Michigan Technological University. Co-founded Handshake in 2012.
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