Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.
About the role
Handshake already runs one of the largest AI-training-data operations in the market, working with frontier AI labs. We're standing up a new, adjacent motion: going directly to companies to license their proprietary data (workflow data, code, support transcripts, and more), clean it, rights-clear it, and get it into the hands of the labs building the next generation of AI. This is a zero-to-one build. You'd be one of the first 5-10 reps on the floor.
More about this role
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.
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
Human data is the core infrastructure to AI advancement. Frontier AI labs currently improve model capabilities with various data-intensive post-training techniques. We believe that data spend for AI training will increase by 3-5x...
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