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Member of Technical Staff, Coding Agents

Handshake · San Francisco, CA · On-site

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About Handshake

Decentralized certificate authority and naming. Backed by Greylock and Sequoia.

About the role

We are hiring a Member of Technical Staff to help define how frontier coding agents are benchmarked and improved. This is a broad, high-ownership role for researchers who build. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • You’re extremely passionate about building software with agents, and regularly tinkering with the latest coding agents
  • Comfort operating in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment with substantial ownership
More about this role

Handshake's mission is to organize expert human knowledge to advance the AI economy. Handshake AI works directly with frontier labs on their most consequential data, evaluation, and post-training challenges, building the systems that turn expert human knowledge into the data and evaluations that make frontier models better.

You will work alongside engineers, researchers, operators, and builders from organizations including Scale AI, Meta, Google, Amazon, xAI, Notion, and Palantir—and help build the systems that make expert human knowledge useful for advancing AI.

We are hiring a Member of Technical Staff to help define how frontier coding agents are benchmarked and improved. This is a broad, high-ownership role for researchers who build.

You will partner with the world’s top AI researchers and thousands of software engineers to develop new benchmarks, reward and verifier systems, agent-evaluation methodologies, and data-quality techniques, centered around applications of AI for Coding. You will work on questions at the center of frontier AI progress: what should be measured, how to design evaluations that reflect real capability, how to create high-signal feedback, and how to...

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