Senior Engineering Manager, Reinforcement Learning Environments (RLE)

Handshake Technologies, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco, CA

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Lead the Reinforcement Learning Environments (RLE) team at Handshake AI to build interactive sandboxes where frontier AI models learn to complete real-world tasks across domains like software engineering, finance, and legal research.
• Drive the technical vision, roadmap, and execution of scalable, reliable environment systems and data generation pipelines that power model training and evaluation for top AI labs.
• Manage and grow a high-performing engineering team of ~7, with plans to add leadership capacity including managing an Engineering Manager as the team scales.
• Partner closely with Research, Product, and Operations to translate ambiguous research needs into clear, measurable engineering outcomes.
• Foster a culture of ownership, speed, and engineering excellence in a fast-moving, high-impact setting shaping the future of AI data infrastructure.

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering management experience
• 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience
• Strong people leadership with experience leading senior engineers
• Proven ability to execute in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Systems and product mindset with background in platform/distributed systems

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity ownership in a fast-growing company
• 401(k) match and competitive compensation
• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, and mental health support
• $2,000 annual learning stipend and ongoing development opportunities
• Free lunch, gym access, commuting support, and internet stipend for SF office
• Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days
• Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, and parental coaching
• Team outings and referral bonuses

Skills & Technologies

TypeScript

React

Node.js

AWS

GCP

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Remote

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About Handshake Technologies, Inc.

Handshake Technologies provides a cloud-based career-services platform that connects university students, recent graduates, and employers. The software enables institutions to manage job postings, career fairs, on-campus interviews, and employer relations while giving students tools to discover internships and entry-level roles and giving employers access to early-career talent across a network of partner colleges and universities.

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