# Forward Deployed Engineer II (Bulgaria)

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 1,600 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. We’ve 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 world’s 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.

- **Id**: 905410
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/handshake-senior-forward-deployed-engineer-bulgaria>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Sofia, Bulgaria
- **Countries**: BG
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-14T06:03:56Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T17:44:48Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 53
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6573
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Health insurance, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Job Boards & Aggregators, AI Training Data & Annotation, Professional Networks

## Company

- **Id**: 5000
- **Name**: Handshake
- **Domain**: joinhandshake.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/handshake>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: yes
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.5
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 49
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 56000
- **Max**: 83000
- **Currency**: EUR
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 93168

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Scale AI** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 53

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Bulgaria** — Iso: BG; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-14T13:20:06Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 44
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.796
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 52
- **Expected fill days**: 49
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 93168
- **Is top pay**: no

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