As a Senior Software Engineer on the Handshake AI Enterprise team, you'll own the product experience layer of AI applications we deploy directly into enterprise customer environments. You'll work closely with customers to deeply understand their workflows, translate ambiguous needs into crisp product decisions, and build interfaces that are genuinely delightful to use — not just functional.
This is not a role for engineers who treat frontend as an afterthought. We believe product quality is a meaningful part of what makes AI applications succeed in enterprise environments, and you'll be the person who holds that bar across every deployment.
This is a unique opportunity to pair direct customer impact with founding-team ownership — helping define what high-craft enterprise AI product looks like from the ground up.
Location: San Francisco, CA | 5 days/week in-office
Own the product experience of AI applications deployed into enterprise customer environments, from initial discovery through iteration
Work directly with customers to understand their workflows, pain points, and what "great" looks like in their context
Translate ambiguous customer needs into clear, well-crafted product and interaction decisions
Build high-quality interfaces and experiences — the kind that make people say "this just works"
Collaborate closely with Applied AI and Platform engineers on your deployment team to ship cohesive, production-grade solutions
Iterate rapidly based on real usage and customer feedback, with tight feedback loops
Establish product engineering standards and reusable patterns that help the team scale quality as we grow
Surface insights from customer deployments that inform Handshake's core product direction
5–6+ years of product engineering experience, with a strong frontend and product sensibility
Experience at a company with a high bar for product quality — you've worked somewhere where craft was a genuine priority and you helped hold it
Expert-level proficiency with ReactJS and TypeScript, with deep knowledge of frontend performance, component architecture, and design systems
Strong opinions about product experience — you notice when things feel off and you fix them
Ability to move across the stack when needed — you're not purely frontend, but product quality is your north star
Comfort working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with real customers and real stakes
Strong communication skills — you'll be in customer conversations regularly and need to translate between business needs and technical decisions
Experience building or integrating AI-powered features in production, customer-facing products
Background working in or alongside enterprise deployment environments
History of close collaboration with designers, or a background in design yourself
Experience at a company with a forward-deployed or embedded engineering model
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