Director, Applied Machine Learning

What this role involves

Handshake is seeking a Director of Applied Machine Learning to lead the function at the intersection of frontier AI research and enterprise-scale delivery. The role involves owning post-training and RL environments, scaled infrastructure, and strategic project support across lab partnerships. The position is hybrid in San Francisco, requiring 3 days per week in office.

Skills this posting asks for

• applied machine learning
• reinforcement learning
• post-training
• rl environments
• grpo
• ppo
• sft
• ai systems design
• infrastructure scaling
• team leadership
• customer relationship management
• strategic planning

Requirements

• Level: director
• Remote policy: hybrid

From the employer’s posting

About Handshake 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 an…