Handshake salaries
The median posted base pay for tech jobs at Handshake is $235K a year, from 19 open jobs with posted pay. The middle half of the jobs is from $198K to $274K. The median posted range is $200K to $260K. The median at Handshake is 21% above the median of all companies ($195K).
- Median posted base pay
- $235K
- Middle half of the jobs
- $198K to $274K
- 10th to 90th percentile
- $161K to $275K
- Open jobs with posted pay
- 19
Handshake pay by level
Posted base pay at Handshake, by the level in the job title. A level needs 3 or more jobs with posted pay.
- Level not stated9 jobs$273K$163K to $275K
- Senior9 jobs$234K$230K to $238K
| Level | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th | Jobs with pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Level not stated | $155K | $163K | $273K | $275K | $275K | 9 |
| Senior | $198K | $230K | $234K | $238K | $242K | 9 |
Handshake pay by job type
The median for each job type at Handshake, compared with the median of all companies for the same job type. A job type needs 3 or more jobs with posted pay. One job can have more than one job type.
| Job type | Median at Handshake | Middle half | Median of all companies | Difference | Jobs with pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software engineering | $236K | $180K to $254K | $192K | +23% | 10 |
| ML / AI engineering | $268K | $206K to $275K | $215K | +24% | 10 |
| Inference & ML systems | $253K | $222K to $276K | $225K | +12% | 4 |
| Infra, platform & SRE | $230K | $214K to $232K | $194K | +19% | 3 |
Open jobs at Handshake with posted pay
These are all 19 open jobs with posted pay, highest pay first. Each range is the base pay that Handshake posted.
- Member of Technical Staff, AI Engineering$200K to $350K
- Member of Technical Staff, Coding Agents$200K to $350K
- Member of Technical Staff, Evals$200K to $350K
- Member of Technical Staff, Post-Training$200K to $350K
- Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise AI$220K to $300K
- Staff Software Engineer, Consumer Experience$265K to $295K
- Manager, Engineering$260K to $285K
- Senior Software Engineer, Annotations$208K to $260K
- Senior Software Engineer, Backend Platform$208K to $260K
- Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform$200K to $260K
- Senior Software Engineer, Growth$225K to $250K
- Senior Software Engineer, Operator Experience$225K to $250K
- Senior Software Engineer, Employer$220K to $250K
- Senior Cloud Engineer, Agentic Infrastructure$176K to $220K
- Senior Software Engineer, LLM Platform$176K to $220K
- Machine Learning Engineer$150K to $189K
- Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise AI$155K to $170K
- Software Engineer I, Promotions$140K to $170K
- Software Engineer I, Build Review & Test$136K to $170K
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How we compute these numbers
We read each job from the job board of the company and check it every day. We use only open jobs that state a yearly pay range in US dollars. One job counts with the middle point of its posted range. The median is the middle value of these amounts: half of the jobs are above it and half are below it.
We do not use a range with a bottom below $15,000, a top above $1,000,000, or a top that is more than four times the bottom. A company needs 5 or more open jobs with posted pay to have a page. Jobs under the same company name count as one company.
The numbers are base pay as the company posted it. They are not the pay of a person, and they do not include stock, a bonus or benefits. For the stock and the bonus that people reported, see Reported pay.