Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.
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Handshake is hiring a Senior Data Platform Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure that moves data reliably across our career marketplace and AI products. On the Data and ML Platform team, you will own the systems that orchestrate batch workloads and deliver timely, trustworthy data to engineers, analysts, and product teams. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
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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
Handshake is hiring a Senior Data Platform Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure that moves data reliably across our career marketplace and AI products. On the Data and ML Platform team, you will own the systems that...
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