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The Staff Software Engineer will lead development of features for connecting students with employers, architect systems, mentor peers, and drive technical initiatives.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build and architect the AI infrastructure, focusing on agent orchestration and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance product features for a large user base.

Manage a book of enterprise employer partners to drive renewals, upsells, and expansion. Build executive relationships, partner with Customer Success, conduct QBRs, and scale account management processes to support premium employers.

The Chief of Staff to the CEO at Handshake will drive strategic initiatives, ensure alignment across functions, and support high-level decision-making through data analysis and effective communication.

Execute high-visibility data collection pipelines, translate customer needs into curated datasets, develop scalable pipeline infrastructure, manage and train distributed LLM contributors, design analytics to measure performance, and collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, Operations, and GTM teams to advance model development.

Own and architect the frontend foundation for Handshake AI Enterprise: establish component system, design tokens, engineering patterns, shared libraries, and ship production-grade UIs while collaborating with AI and platform teams to ensure scalable, maintainable, high-performance enterprise deployments.

Build and own full-stack features for core user journeys, shipping backend APIs, async workflows, and frontend experiences. Contribute to architecture, write well-tested maintainable code, partner with product and design, and proactively address technical debt and performance issues.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and build payout systems and Trust & Safety mechanisms, focusing on reliability and auditability, while mentoring others.

As the Strategic Projects Lead, you'll coordinate coding-data initiatives, design assessments, create review processes, and ensure quality delivery while managing relationships with technical teams.

Work directly with AI labs to scope, build, and deploy production-grade full-stack solutions. Translate customer needs into engineering plans, prototype rapidly, contribute to architecture, code reviews, documentation, and scalable deployment patterns while collaborating with senior engineers.