{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"4fee74883f0da7f4debe0d79","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/4fee74883f0da7f4debe0d79","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/4fee74883f0da7f4debe0d79","title":"Software Engineer I, Quality","description":"Location\n\nSan Francisco, CA\n\nEmployment Type\n\nFull time\n\nLocation Type\n\nOn-site\n\nDepartment\n\nEngineering\n\nCompensation\n$136K – $170K • Offers Equity\n\nFor cash compensation, we set standard ranges for all U.S.-based roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including geographic location as well as candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.\nAbout Handshake\n\nHandshake 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.\n\nIn 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.\n\nWhy join Handshake now:\n\nShape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel\n\nPartner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world’s top educational institutions\n\nWork together with engineers, scientists, operators, and more from Palantir, Meta, Scale AI, and former YC founders\n\nBuild a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue\n\nAbout Handshake AI\n\nHuman 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 in the next few years and continue for much longer as models take on new domains. Handshake AI supports all of the frontier AI labs, working on their most complex data at the largest scale.\n\nAbout the Role\n\nWe’re hiring a Software Engineer to join our Quality team. The team builds the systems that define, select, and enforce quality standards across the data and evaluations we deliver to leading AI labs.\n\nYou’ll work on infrastructure that evaluates complex outputs submitted by fellows, such as coding tasks designed to challenge advanced AI models. These quality checks run throughout the production process: providing real-time feedback to fellows, supporting internal operators, and validating outputs before they reach customers.\n\nLocation: San Francisco, CA. This is an in-office role five days per week.\n\nWhat You’ll Do\n\nBuild and scale backend systems that evaluate and improve the quality of data delivered to frontier AI labs\n\nDevelop infrastructure for running quality checks in real time and before final customer delivery\n\nHelp design recommendation systems that select the most effective quality checks for each project\n\nBuild data pipelines and measurement systems that make complex, subjective quality signals more observable and actionable\n\nDevelop APIs and platform capabilities that allow other teams and tools to use the Quality platform\n\nHelp surface Quality capabilities through MCP and other AI-native interfaces used by internal operators\n\nPartner with engineers, researchers, product teams, and operations stakeholders to turn ambiguous quality problems into scalable technical solutions\n\nImprove the reliability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of quality workflows as the business grows\n\nDesired Capabilities\n\n2+ years of experience building and maintaining backend applications, services, or data-intensive systems\n\nStrong software engineering fundamentals, including system design, testing, debugging, and operational reliability\n\nA data-oriented approach to solving problems and measuring whether a system is working\n\nExperience working with APIs, databases, data pipelines, or distributed systems\n\nThe ability to navigate ambiguous problems, break them into manageable pieces, and deliver iteratively\n\nStrong communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams\n\nA quality-focused mindset and an interest in building systems that make difficult-to-measure outcomes more rigorous\n\nExtra Credit\n\nExperience with machine learning, applied AI, or AI-enabled products\n\nFamiliarity with model evaluation, experimentation, recommendation systems, or ranking systems\n\nExperience with annotation, data-labeling, tasking, or workflow-orchestration platforms\n\nExperience building developer platforms, internal tools, or extensible APIs\n\nFamiliarity with MCP, agentic systems, or AI-native development tools\n\nExperience working in a fast-moving startup or similarly ambiguous environment\n\nPerks\n\nHandshake delivers benefits that help you feel supported—and thrive at work and in life.\n\nThe below benefits are for full-time US employees.\n\nOwnership: Equity in a fast-growing company\n\nFinancial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching\n\nFamily Support: Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching\n\nWellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, wellness stipend\n\nGrowth: Learning stipend, ongoing development\n\nRemote & Office: Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office\n\nTime Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days\n\nConnection: Team outings & referral bonuses\n\nExplore our mission, values, and comprehensive US benefits at joinhandshake.com/careers.\n\nCompensation Range: $136K - $170K","company":"Handshake","rawCompany":"handshake","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-10T09:43:10.909Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1253.00","title":"Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers","slug":"software-quality-assurance-analysts-and-testers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Software Engineer I, Quality","description":"Location\n\nSan Francisco, CA\n\nEmployment Type\n\nFull time\n\nLocation Type\n\nOn-site\n\nDepartment\n\nEngineering\n\nCompensation\n$136K – $170K • Offers Equity\n\nFor cash compensation, we set standard ranges for all U.S.-based roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including geographic location as well as candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.\nAbout Handshake\n\nHandshake 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.\n\nIn 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. 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Handshake AI supports all of the frontier AI labs, working on their most complex data at the largest scale.\n\nAbout the Role\n\nWe’re hiring a Software Engineer to join our Quality team. The team builds the systems that define, select, and enforce quality standards across the data and evaluations we deliver to leading AI labs.\n\nYou’ll work on infrastructure that evaluates complex outputs submitted by fellows, such as coding tasks designed to challenge advanced AI models. These quality checks run throughout the production process: providing real-time feedback to fellows, supporting internal operators, and validating outputs before they reach customers.\n\nLocation: San Francisco, CA. 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