# Member of Technical Staff, Evals at Handshake

- Company: Handshake
- What the company does: Decentralized certificate authority and naming. Backed by Greylock and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://handshake.org/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $350K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-29
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/handshake/ca392442-69eb-46f5-b367-37e43c832094?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/handshake-member-of-technical-staff-evals/

## About the role

We are hiring a Member of Technical Staff, Evals to help define how frontier AI systems are measured, understood, 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

- PhD in ML/AI, computer science, data science, or related fields (or equivalent research experience in industry)
- Publications at top AI/ML venues like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, COLM
- Builders who enjoy tinkering with agents and shipping high-quality software, benchmarks, or datasets (e.g. a strong GitHub profile / OSS contributions, or product portfolio)
- Strong Python skills, experience building scalable software, working with agents
- Strong knowledge of frontier AI: benchmarks, eval techniques, agent harnesses, post-training recipes, data shapes
- Comfort operating in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment with substantial ownership

Tags: HAI Research

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/handshake-member-of-technical-staff-evals/