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Today, we power 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions.\nIn 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.\nWhy join Handshake now:\nShape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel\n\nPartner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world’s top educational institutions\n\nWork together with engineers, scientists, operators, and more from Palantir, Meta, Scale AI, and former YC founders\n\nBuild a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue\n\nLocation: San Francisco, CA - 5 days/week in-office\nAbout the Role\nWe’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a high-impact engineering team within Handshake Careers. You’ll own the engineering of a new, agent-first product for industry recruiting: the future of how companies find, evaluate, and reach experienced talent.\nRecruiting teams work through hours of manual searching, filtering, and outreach. Our product replaces that with an agent. A recruiter describes who they need, or uploads a job description, and the agent builds an ideal candidate profile, finds matches, refines results from feedback, and drafts and sends personalized outreach.\nYou’ll lead the founding team, a mix of senior, staff, principal, and mid-level engineers. The product is self-serve from day one, starting free and growing into paid and enterprise tiers.\nWhat you’ll do\nLead and grow a new engineering team, including senior, staff, and principal engineers, through hiring, coaching, and career development\n\nOwn the end-to-end product: sign-up and onboarding, agent-driven search and calibration, shortlists, analytics, and tiering\n\nShape the architecture early. Review technical designs and proposals and set direction\n\nDrive execution on an ambitious timeline across a large project, and make clear trade-offs with product and design on scope versus speed\n\nPartner closely with product and design, and with the teams behind outreach, candidate data, and AI/ML search and retrieval\n\nEstablish the team’s engineering culture, processes, and operating rhythm from the ground up\n\nWhat we’re looking for\n3+ years experience managing engineering teams, including teams that include senior and staff engineers\n\nStrong people management: high EQ, empathy, and a record of growing engineers’ careers\n\nDeep technical background. 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