Strategic Projects Lead, Safety is open at Handshake in New York, NY. The posting gives a salary of $160K. Posted on Sep 16, 2026, and still on Handshake’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 15, 2026.
About the role
As a Strategic Projects Lead (SPL) on AI Safety & Red Teaming, you will own the execution of large-scale adversarial testing programs that directly develop frontier AI models before and after release. You will design and run structured efforts to push models to failure, spanning work such as evaluating harm and policy categories against frontier labs’ own policy specifications, developing jailbreak and adversarial…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Handshake’s careers page.
Hiring at Handshake
Handshake has 74 open roles right now, 6 of them remote. Most are in Engineering, Operations and Sales & Business Development. The median advertised salary across its roles with a published range is $190K. See all its roles
