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Meet Handshake

Handshake is a career network and recruiting technology company connecting job seekers, educational institutions, and employers. Its platform supports job and internship discovery, employer recruiting, career-center workflows, intelligent job matching, and skills development. Handshake has expanded beyond its original college and early-career focus with Handshake AI, which connects students, graduates, professionals, and domain experts with project-based work that helps AI labs train and evaluate models. It also operates AI Skills Studio, a hands-on learning experience for building practical AI skills and projects. The company serves job seekers, universities, employers, and organizations developing or deploying AI.View more

Handshake is a career network and recruiting technology company connecting job seekers, educational institutions, and employers. Its platform supports job and internship discovery, employer recruiting, career-center workflows, intelligent job matching, and skills development. Handshake has expanded beyond its original college and early-career focus with Handshake AI, which connects students, graduates, professionals, and domain experts with project-based work that helps AI labs train and evaluate models. It also operates AI Skills Studio, a hands-on learning experience for building practical AI skills and projects. The company serves job seekers, universities, employers, and organizations developing or deploying AI.

Founded
2014
Company size
501-1,000 employees
Company stage
Not known
Headquarters
San Francisco, USA

Why work here

Handshake offers candidates the opportunity to work across a large career marketplace, recruiting technology, AI training and evaluation infrastructure, and AI-powered skills development. The company is a late-stage private business with approximately $434M in disclosed funding and has continued investing through acquisitions such as Cleanlab and Uplimit. Current engineering roles expose employees to technologies including TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, GCP, Kubernetes, Python and modern LLM infrastructure. U.S. job postings also advertise equity, 401(k) matching, health and mental-wellness support, a learning stipend, wellness benefits and flexible PTO. Candidates should also expect a fast-changing environment as the company continues its strategic expansion into AI.Read more

Handshake offers candidates the opportunity to work across a large career marketplace, recruiting technology, AI training and evaluation infrastructure, and AI-powered skills development. The company is a late-stage private business with approximately $434M in disclosed funding and has continued investing through acquisitions such as Cleanlab and Uplimit. Current engineering roles expose employees to technologies including TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, GCP, Kubernetes, Python and modern LLM infrastructure. U.S. job postings also advertise equity, 401(k) matching, health and mental-wellness support, a learning stipend, wellness benefits and flexible PTO. Candidates should also expect a fast-changing environment as the company continues its strategic expansion into AI.

Industry
Career network, recruiting technology and AI workforce platform
Open jobs
77 open jobs
Notable investors
Coatue Management, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins, True Ventures

Tech stack

TypeScript

Programming language

React

Frontend

Next.js

Web framework

Node.js

Backend

Ruby on Rails

Backend framework

Python

Programming language

Go

Programming language

PostgreSQL

Database

GraphQL

API

Redis

Data infrastructure

Google Cloud Platform

Cloud

Kubernetes

Infrastructure

Terraform

Infrastructure as code

BigQuery

Data warehouse

Apache Airflow

Data orchestration

Datadog

Observability

Key people

7 people
Garrett LordCo-founderView bio

Co-founder and CEO of Handshake. Lord studied computer science at Michigan Technological University and experienced firsthand the limited recruiting access available to students outside major target schools. He and his co-founders built Handshake to broaden access to career opportunities. Before starting the company, he interned at Palantir Technologies.

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Ben ChristensenCo-founderView bio

Co-founder of Handshake and a Michigan Technological University alumnus. Christensen worked in security research at Arbor Networks and previously in software development before committing to Handshake. He has held roles across university sales, customer success, people operations, engineering and partnerships as the company scaled.

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Scott RingwelskiCo-founderView bio

Co-founder of Handshake and a Michigan Technological University alumnus. Ringwelski helped build the original Handshake software and served as an early technical leader and CTO. He co-founded the company with Garrett Lord and Ben Christensen after the team identified unequal access to recruiting opportunities for students at schools outside traditional employer pipelines.

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Jonathan StullPresident and Chief Operating OfficerView bio

President and COO of Handshake, responsible for operating and scaling the company's career marketplace and newer AI and learning businesses. He has spent roughly a decade at Handshake and has helped oversee its growth, international expansion and marketplace development. He holds a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

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Saad RehmaniChief Technology OfficerView bio

CTO of Handshake, leading engineering across the career network and Handshake AI. Before joining, Rehmani spent nearly seven years at Reddit and was most recently Executive Vice President of Engineering. Earlier roles included VP of Engineering at Grubhub, CTO of Kapow, Director of Architecture at Redbox and platform architect at Oracle.

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Sahil BhaiwalaChief Strategy and Innovation Officer, Handshake AIView bio

Leads long-term strategy, market positioning and innovation for Handshake AI. Previously a General Manager and Director of Product & AI at Scale AI, where he worked across generative-AI data, reinforcement learning, data quality and international public-sector programs. Earlier experience includes Bain & Company. He holds degrees in Pure Mathematics and Economics from Boston University.

Julia StiglitzChief Education & Workforce OfficerView bio

Chief Education & Workforce Officer at Handshake, leading work connecting learning, skills and employment. She joined after Handshake acquired Uplimit, the AI-native learning company she co-founded and led as CEO. Her background is focused on education technology, workforce learning and scalable skills development, and she is leading initiatives including Handshake's AI Skills Studio.

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Latest company news

3 stories

Handshake launches AI Skills Studio

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Handshake launched AI Skills Studio, a free project-based learning experience where job seekers build practical AI skills using tools from companies including OpenAI, Google, Figma, Notion, Salesforce and others, with completed work connected to their Handshake profiles.

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Handshake acquires Uplimit to build a global AI learning platform

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Handshake acquired AI-native learning platform Uplimit to connect skills development more directly with hiring. Uplimit's technology and team became part of Handshake's expansion into AI-focused learning and workforce development.

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Handshake acquires Cleanlab

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Handshake acquired Cleanlab, adding its data-centric AI technology and research team to Handshake AI. The transaction expanded Handshake's capabilities in model evaluation, AI safety, reinforcement-learning environments and human-data quality.

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Jobs at Handshake

77 open roles
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