Handshake salary data
Handshake publishes pay ranges on 65 of its open roles. These are the company's own published figures, not estimates or crowd-sourced guesses.
Last checked 19 August 2026
$198k
Median midpoint
$80k
Lowest published
$400k
Highest published
65
Roles with pay
Pay by role at Handshake
| Role | Openings | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 13 | $135k | $300k |
| Manager | 12 | $105k | $275k |
| Machine Learning Engineer | 5 | $151k | $350k |
| Engineer | 4 | $155k | $300k |
| Account Executive | 3 | $165k | $175k |
| Finance | 2 | $128k | $160k |
| Product Manager | 2 | $180k | $220k |
| Engineering Manager | 2 | $240k | $280k |
| Marketing Manager | 2 | $100k | $190k |
Where this comes from. Every figure is taken from Handshake's own job board and recorded each day. When a range changes, we keep both the old number and the new one — which is how you can see pay moving rather than just where it stands today. Figures above cover annual salaries only; 3 further roles are quoted at an hourly or monthly rate are excluded so they don't distort the ranges.
Roles with published pay
| Role | Location | Team | Salary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior UX Researcher | San Francisco, CA | Design | $175k – $220k |
| Mid-Market Account Manager | San Francisco, CA | Employer Revenue | $136k – $170k |
| Machine Learning Engineer I, Network | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $151k – $189k |
| IT Support Analyst | New York, NY | Engineering | $80k – $100k |
| Associate Software Engineer, RLE | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $135k – $150k |
| Business Development Representative, Government | Remote (USA) | Employer Revenue | $88k – $115k |
| Senior Engineering Manager, Growth | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $250k – $280k |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $238k – $297k |
| IT Support Analyst | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $80k – $100k |
| Senior Product Marketing Manager, Handshake AI | San Francisco, CA | Marketing | $152k – $190k |
| Field and Event Marketing Manager | San Francisco, CA | Marketing | $100k – $125k |
| Staff Product Designer | San Francisco, CA | Design | $190k – $240k |
| Software Engineer I, Handshake AI | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $158k – $175k |
| Chief of Staff, President & COO | San Francisco, CA | General & Administrative | $224k – $280k |
| Director of Communications | San Francisco, CA | Marketing | $200k – $255k |
| Staff Forward Deployed Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $265k – $295k |
| Enterprise Customer Success Manager | San Francisco, CA | Employer Revenue | $140k – $175k |
| Executive Assistant | San Francisco, CA | General & Administrative | $120k – $150k |
| Relationship Manager, Scaled | San Francisco, CA | Education | $105k – $120k |
| Strategic Projects Lead, Safety | Seattle, WA | HAI Delivery Ops | $160k – $160k |
| Manager, R&D Strategy & Operations | San Francisco, CA | Product | $160k – $190k |
| Senior Director - Litigation & Employment Counsel | San Francisco, CA | General & Administrative | $276k – $345k |
| Senior Software Engineer, Coding | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $225k – $250k |
| Senior Software Engineer, Growth | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $225k – $250k |
| Senior Engagement Manager | San Francisco, CA | HAI Delivery Ops | $275k – $275k |
| Senior Engineering Manager, Quality & Annotations | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $240k – $280k |
| Senior Software Engineer, Allocation & Onboarding | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $225k – $250k |
| Director, Applied Machine Learning | San Francisco, CA | HAI Research | $375k – $400k |
| Relationship Manager - Strategic | San Francisco, CA | Education | $110k – $130k |
| GTM Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Employer Revenue | $156k – $195k |
| Senior Product Manager, Forward Deployed — Handshake AI | San Francisco, CA | Product | $180k – $220k |
| Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning Infrastructure | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $176k – $220k |
| Senior Data Scientist, Product Analytics | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $162k – $203k |
| Manager, Strategic Programs | San Francisco, CA | HAI Delivery Ops | $152k – $190k |
| Senior Product Manager, Coding — Handshake AI | San Francisco, CA | Product | $180k – $220k |
| Senior Software Engineer, Operator Tooling | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $225k – $250k |
| Senior AI Forward Deployed Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $250k – $350k |
| Strategic Projects Lead | Toronto, Ontario | HAI Delivery Ops | $136k – $162k |
| Senior Frontend Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $205k – $300k |
| Strategic Projects Associate | San Francisco, CA | HAI Delivery Ops | $120k – $120k |
| Technical Program Manager, Central Operations | San Francisco, CA | HAI Delivery Ops | $136k – $170k |
| Senior Operations Program Manager, Central Operations | San Francisco, CA | HAI Delivery Ops | $172k – $215k |
| Senior Manager, Communications | San Francisco, CA | Marketing | $192k – $240k |
| Finance Manager | San Francisco, CA | General & Administrative | $128k – $160k |
| Account Executive, Data Partnerships | San Francisco, CA | HAI Delivery Ops | $175k – $175k |
| Data Partnership Strategist | San Francisco, CA | HAI Delivery Ops | $175k – $175k |
| Senior Software Engineer, Handshake AI | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $225k – $250k |
| Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Handshake AI | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $225k – $250k |
| Machine Learning Engineer I, Growth Relevance | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $151k – $189k |
| Senior Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $176k – $220k |
| Strategic Projects Lead | San Francisco, CA | HAI Delivery Ops | $160k – $160k |
| Applied AI Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $155k – $300k |
| Mid-Market Account Executive II | San Francisco, CA | Employer Revenue | $165k – $175k |
| Strategic Projects Lead, Coding/RLE | San Francisco, CA | HAI Delivery Ops | $172k – $204k |
| Senior Software Engineer - Pay & Safety | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $225k – $250k |
| Forward Deployed Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $155k – $300k |
| Platform Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $155k – $300k |
| Software Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $155k – $300k |
| Mid-Market Account Executive II | New York, NY | Employer Revenue | $165k – $175k |
| FP&A Manager | San Francisco, CA | General & Administrative | $128k – $160k |
| Staff Software Engineer, Consumer Experience | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $265k – $295k |
| Chief of Staff, CEO | San Francisco, CA | General & Administrative | $256k – $320k |
| Enterprise Account Manager | San Francisco, CA | Employer Revenue | $179k – $224k |
| Manager, Strategic Projects | San Francisco, CA | HAI Delivery Ops | $160k – $210k |
| Engagement Manager | San Francisco, CA | HAI Delivery Ops | $225k – $225k |
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