Machine Learning Engineer I, Network

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 with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 companies, and the world’s leading educational institutions - Work alongside engineers, scientists, operators, and more from Palantir, Meta, Scale AI, and former YC founders - Help build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue ABOUT HANDSHAKE AI Human data is the core infrastructure of AI advancement. Frontier AI labs currently improve model capabilities through various data-intensive post-training techniques. We believe spending on AI training data will increase by 3–5x over the next few years and continue growing as models expand into new domains. Handshake AI supports all frontier AI labs, working on their most complex data challenges at significant scale. ABOUT THE ROLE Handshake is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer for the Network and Handshake AI Marketplace Relevance team. AI is transforming how students navigate their careers, and we’re committed to developing innovative, responsible AI-powered solutions that connect students with meaningful career opportunities. In this role, you’ll build and improve the machine learning systems that power job search and recommendations, user understanding, personalized notifications, and core embedding models across the Handshake platform. You’ll work

Department: Engineering; Team: Engineering