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How Handshake hires
Truth index
A 89/100
Median time to fill
47 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
46%
Reposted roles
0%
Handshake scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 11 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 46% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 47 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Handshake is a professional career network for students and early-career professionals headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2014. The company provides a digital platform that connects university students with internships and entry-level jobs, including specialized roles in the artificial intelligence economy. It serves over 15 million students and alumni from more than 1,500 colleges and universities, partnering with over 900,000 employers across the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe.
News
AI Career Skills Move Beyond Computer Science
New Handshake data shows how students across majors are building AI experience and navigating an evolving early-career job market. Artificial intelligence has rapidly changed the landscape of career preparation and the early-career job market. But student
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Handshake Acquires Uplimit: AI Skilling Takes A New Direction JOSH BERSIN
Handshake sets out to lead the AI-job seeking and both model and human training market thru the acquisition of Uplimit.
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There Are Many Ways Students Can Apply Their Skills Across Industries
Handshake Co-Founder & CEO Garrett Lord joins Jill Malandrino on Nasdaq TradeTalks to discuss helping students think outside the box and recognize there are many ways they can apply their skills across industries.
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Entry-level jobs calling for AI skills nearly doubled from a year ago, says report
As of March, 4.2% of full-time early-career jobs called for AI skills, nearly double the share from a year ago, according to Handshake's 2026 graduate report.
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AI data labeler Handshake buys Cleanlab, an acquisition target of multiple others
The deal's purpose is primarily to acquire talent, aka an acqui-hire, adding nine key Cleanlab employees to Handshake's research organization.
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Who's making the most money in AI? It's not who you think
Frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic need vast amounts of data in the race to achieve AGI. This comes at a pretty penny - billions of dollars - and little-known companies like Mercor and Handshake are cleaning up in this AI hype cycle.
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Virginia Looks to Plug Brain Drain With More Internships
A partnership with Handshake is one effort to connect local talent with companies. Internships can be a meaningful step in a college student's career development. That's why the commonwealth of Virginia is working to guarantee that undergraduates have a f
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Gen Z college graduates are entering the toughest job market in years-here's how they can stand out
The class of 2026 is pessimistic about their career prospects-yet hiring managers say the most prepared students still win.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Handshake over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
130
Postings analysed
121
Stack modernity
84/100AI adopter
Languages
Python22%
TypeScript16%
JavaScript8%
SQL7%
Ruby2%
PowerShell2%
Go2%
Node JS2%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch7%
React.js5%
Scikit-learn4%
TensorFlow4%
Ruby on Rails2%
Transformers2%
LangChain1%
LiteLLM1%
Databases
PostgreSQL11%
BigQuery3%
Google BigQuery3%
Redis1%
Snowflake1%
Cloud & platforms
Scale AI90%
GCP17%
AWS15%
Kubernetes6%
Azure5%
GitHub3%
Okta2%
OpenAI2%
Developer tools
Terraform4%
Docker4%
GraphQL2%
Model Context Protocol2%
ComfyUI2%
dbt2%
ArgoCD1%
Canva1%
AI & ML
LLM21%
Claude6%
ChatGPT5%
PEFT4%
LoRA4%
Gemini4%
DALL-E2%
Midjourney2%
Practices & domains
Post-training53%
AI Agents17%
Machine Learning12%
Reinforcement Learning11%
CI/CD10%
RLHF8%
Fine-tuning7%
Synthetic Data7%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$209k
Typical range
$50k – $350k
Open positions
52
43
Jobs
Junior
16.3%
Middle
14%
Senior
41.9%
Staff
23.3%
Architect
4.7%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 7 | $148k | $90k – $189k |
| Middle | 6 | $178k | $93k – $187k |
| Senior | 18 | $214k | $150k – $345k |
| Staff | 10 | $345k | $250k – $350k |
| Architect | 2 | $250k | $245k – $255k |
Highest paying role
Member of Technical Staff, Post-Training
$350k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Handshake
By role, level and city, against the market · 52 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
87/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
65
30 opened / 14 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
48 days
faster than 28% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
17% ▼
AI/ML
11% ▲
HR
10% ▲
Sales
9%
Marketing
8% ▲
Design
5%
Actively hiring for AI/ML (+7 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Reddit to stack
Oct 2026
Added Agentic Workflows to stack
Oct 2026
Added Vitest to stack
Oct 2026
Added Playwright to stack
Oct 2026
Added Jest to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Mountain View
Oct 2026
Added Multimodal AI to stack
Sep 2026
Added Google GKE to stack
Sep 2026
Added Airflow to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Toronto
Sep 2026
Added Service Desk to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
8
Hiring now
8
Countries
3
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
49 open roles 56 posted in 90 days 43% engineering 2% remote 50-200 est. staff $235k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Marketing
New York
United States
Engineering / R&D
20 open roles 16 posted in 90 days 30% engineering 10-50 est. staff $239k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Customer Success, Marketing
Bengaluru
India
Engineering / R&D
10 open roles 14 posted in 90 days 40% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for HR, AI/ML, Backend
Seattle
United States
Corporate office
5 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 20% engineering 1-10 est. staff $175k Avg Salary
hires for Education, AI/ML, Public Policy
Nashville
United States
Sales office
5 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Sales, Marketing
Nashville, TN
Mountain View
United States
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff $350k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML
Washington
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $210k Avg Salary
hires for Customer Success
Sofia
Bulgaria
Engineering / R&D
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $93k Avg Salary
hires for Solutions
Jobs
$120k – $150k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
SQL
Snowflake
Databricks
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
Post-training
Scale AI
Analytics
Tableau
Power BI
Looker
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$270k – $350k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco • New York • Mountain View
Post-training
Scale AI
DevOps
GitHub
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≈ $45k – $111k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • Bengaluru
Python
LoRA
Fine-tuning
RLHF
Reinforcement Learning
PEFT
Transformers
PyTorch
LLM
Synthetic Data
DPO
SFT
PPO
Post-training
Scale AI
Human-in-the-Loop
Reward Modeling
Machine Learning
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≈ $45k – $112k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Bengaluru
Python
Reinforcement Learning
LLM
Synthetic Data
Post-training
Scale AI
Human-in-the-Loop
Management
Notion
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$150k – $189k per year • In office • Full-Time • 1+ year exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco
Python
Scikit-learn
NLP
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Explainable AI
Scale AI
Agentic Workflows
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
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$64k – $190k per year • In office • Full-Time • Seattle
Python
Claude
ChatGPT
AI Agents
Gemini
LLM
Red Teaming
LLM Guardrails
Wikipedia
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$135k – $180k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
SQL
Scale AI
Analytics
A/B Testing
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$200k – $350k per year • In office • Full-Time • PhD • San Francisco • New York • Mountain View
Python
Reinforcement Learning
Multimodal AI
AI Agents
Post-training
Scale AI
Reward Modeling
DevOps
GitHub
Apply
$175k – $205k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
SQL
Machine Learning
Analytics
A/B Testing
Apply
$166k – $207k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Python
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
Spark
Airflow
dbt
Scale AI
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Datadog
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Google GKE
IAM
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$200k – $350k per year • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
Reinforcement Learning
LLM
Synthetic Data
Post-training
Scale AI
Human-in-the-Loop
Management
Notion
Apply
$225k – $250k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • San Francisco • New York
Post-training
Scale AI
Apply
Financials
Total raised
$8M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2014 | $8M | Details |