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title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer at Handoff'
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# Forward Deployed Engineer at Handoff

- **Company:** Handoff
- **Location:** São Paulo, Brazil
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/handoff/5f222a16-e598-4b0c-b57b-8597e700bc61

## Job description

Why join us? Handoff is the AI agent that runs a construction company. We help remodelers automate estimating, streamline operations, and win more work - backed by real-time cost data, intuitive design, and workflows that “speak contractor.” With over 10,000 monthly active users and $6B in annualized project volume already flowing through our platform, we’re becoming the trusted partner for the people who build our homes. We are backed by $25M+ raised from Y Combinator, Initialized, and Greycroft. Our team is distributed across hubs in Austin, São Paulo, and Buenos Aires, and we are deeply focused on building intuitive, high-impact solutions that make a real difference for our users.

Forward Deployed Engineer at Handoff You'll be the dedicated, client-facing engineer behind Handoff's AI-automated takeoff platform for our enterprise construction accounts. Think of yourself as the technical owner of two to three enterprise relationships: you'll embed with each client's software and estimating teams, customize our deliverables to their exact standards, stand up intake and delivery workflows, and iterate until our outputs clear a measurable quality bar. You'll partner with a Construction Account Manager who owns the business relationship while you own everything technical, from first pilot to production integration with their POS/ERP systems. This is a high-ownership role for engineers who like ambiguity, direct customer contact, and being accountable for real business outcomes.

## What you'll do

- Own end-to-end technical delivery for 2-3 enterprise accounts, from pilot success criteria through production rollout and ongoing support.
- Customize our core deliverables: estimates, takeoff drawings, and summary reports - to each client's templates, naming conventions, units, materials preferences, and branding.
- Stand up and automate intake and delivery workflows (file transfer, custom CSV exports, API payloads) into and out of client systems.
- Expose and document Handoff's API for clients to consume, and build SKU matching that maps our estimate line items to a supplier's catalog - maintaining mappings as catalogs evolve.
- Assess each client's tech stack (POS/ERP systems such as Oracle), recommend a realistic integration path, and assist with connections to legacy systems, scoping what's feasible and never over-promising.
- Lead weekly calibration reviews with the client's estimating team, incorporate correction notes, and drive accuracy against agreed error-rate targets, treating measurement as a core requirement, not an afterthought.
- Meet delivery SLAs and provide first-line technical support and maintenance throughout the engagement.
- Document account-specific configurations, assumptions, and preferences for continuity and clean handover.

## About You

- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping and operating production systems.
- Full-stack comfort: proficient in Node.js, Python, and SQL, able to customize outputs, build integrations, and automate exports across the stack.
- Hands-on API experience: designing, exposing, and documenting APIs, mapping data to a client's schema, and working with legacy or non-REST systems.
- Strong client-facing skills: professional, responsive, and comfortable working directly in a client's channels (email, calls, Microsoft Teams) with both engineers and non-technical estimating staff.
- Metrics-driven: you define quality metrics, track accuracy trends across iterations, and make progress quantifiable and defensible.
- Self-contained and autonomous: you can own technical delivery for multiple accounts and navigate ambiguity, shifting requirements, and staggered timelines.
- B2+ English, ensuring effective communication and documentation with US clients.
- Bonus: exposure to LLM/AI applications, or familiarity with residential construction (framing, foundation, roofing, siding, interior scope) and estimating workflows.

## What we offer

- 💸 Competitive salary in USD
- 💰 Attractive stock options
- 🌴 Unlimited PTO
- 🚛 Relocation allowance
- 👨‍💻 Top-notch equipment
- 🧳 Team offsites around the world!

If you want to be the engineer customers trust to make AI work in the real world, and watch your work reshape how construction gets done, we'd love to hear from you! Please note that we will only consider applications submitted in English.

## About Handoff

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Handoff builds AI-native construction estimating and business management software for residential contractors.
- **Entity Type**: Private, venture-backed (YC W20, raised $5.9M–$20M)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, USA (with hubs in São Paulo, Brazil and Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed; originally developed by the team behind 1build, a YC‑backed construction pricing platform

## Core Business
- **Industries**: Construction technology (Contech), Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- **Target Customers**: B2B – residential remodeling contractors and handymen (SMBs)
- **Mission/Purpose**: Replace the hours contractors spend on manual estimates with fast, accurate, AI‑powered automation so they can focus on running their businesses

## Products & Services
- **[Handoff AI Estimator](https://handoff.ai)**: An AI platform that generates detailed, localized construction cost estimates from blueprints, photos, or simple descriptions. It uses the proprietary **H1 model** to autonomously produce material takeoffs and cost breakdowns in minutes.
- **[Handoff Business Suite](https://handoff.ai)**: Integrated tools for client management, proposal generation, invoicing, pricing, and reputation management – all built to run a contractor’s entire operation.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Annual Revenue: $5M–$25M (LinkedIn estimate; not officially confirmed)
  - Total Funding: $5.9M (LinkedIn) **or** $20M (as part of parent 1build’s fundraising; conflicting reports)
  - **Growth**: 166.7% YoY headcount growth (58 employees), processing over 3,600 contractor estimates, and counting
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (W20 batch), top Silicon Valley VCs (via 1build – names not specified). One of the world’s largest construction suppliers uses H1 across all its locations.
- **Growth Signals**: Released H1, the first AI takeoff model that beats human estimators (81.6% vs 77.6% accuracy); expanding globally; hiring aggressively across engineering, sales, and marketing.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Superior AI**: H1 model achieves 81.6% accuracy on real blueprints – ahead of both human estimators (77.6%) and general frontier models (61.4%).
- **Niche Focus**: Built exclusively for residential contractors, unlike generic “for everyone” AI tools.
- **Data Moat**: Access to localized construction cost data from 1build’s existing integration network and materials supplier partnerships.
- **Speed Culture**: Weekly product shipping, lean teams, and fast decision-making that outpace larger competitors.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale adoption of the H1 model among the 600,000+ US remodeling contractors.
- Strengthen supplier integrations and win enterprise accounts (e.g., large material suppliers).
- Maintain high talent density by hiring “owners, not task-doers” across engineering, sales, and marketing.
- Keep hubs in US, Brazil, and Argentina to tap diverse talent while preserving synchronous collaboration.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: High bar, radical ownership, and direct communication. Titles don’t limit scope – engineers build product, marketers build systems.
- **Work Model**: Austin is fully onsite; São Paulo and Buenos Aires are hybrid (3 days/week in office). Relocation allowance for roles that require moving to a hub.
- **Perks**: Unlimited PTO, stock options for all full-time employees, and a no‑ghosting interview process.
- **Engineering & AI**: AI is not just the product – it’s embedded in how the company sells, recruits, codes, and improves workflows. Engineers ship weekly and own problems end‑to-end.
- **Interview Process**: 5–6 steps in 2–3 weeks, including a take-home on a real problem. AI tools are explicitly allowed. [handoff.ai](https://www.handoff.ai/careers/interview-guide)
- **Growth**: Small team by design → more ownership, faster feedback loops, and faster scope growth than at bigger companies.

## Sources
1. [handoff.ai – Careers](https://www.handoff.ai/careers)
2. [handoff.ai – Interview Guide](https://www.handoff.ai/careers/interview-guide)
3. [linkedin.com – Handoff company page](https://linkedin.com/company/handoff-ai)
4. [ycombinator.com – Handoff profile](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/handoff)
5. [builtin.com – Handoff company overview](https://builtin.com/company/handoff)

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