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<p>As a Software Engineer in the <strong>Discover Team</strong>, you will build AI-powered backend systems that enable intelligent candidate discovery through semantic search, matching, ranking, and recommendations.<br>
You will work on platforms that:</p>
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  <li>Understand candidate profiles, job descriptions and other entities</li>
  <li>Generate and serve attribute embeddings</li>
  <li>Perform semantic retrieval across millions of profiles</li>
  <li>Rank candidates based on hiring context and recruiter intent</li>
  <li>Continuously learn from recruiter interactions and outcomes</li>
</ul>
<p>This role focuses on building <strong>production-grade applied AI systems, </strong>translating models, signals, and hiring behaviour into scalable, low-latency decisioning platforms used in real-time by recruiters.<br>
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<strong>ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES</strong></p>
<ul>
  <li>Design and develop backend services powering AI-driven talent search and recommendations.</li>
  <li>Build scalable pipelines for ingestion, representation, and retrieval of job and candidate attributes.</li>
  <li>Implement semantic search and matching systems using embeddings and vector-based retrieval techniques.</li>
  <li>Develop candidate-job ranking systems leveraging behavioural and contextual hiring signals.</li>
  <li>Build real-time scoring and decisioning APIs for recruiter-facing discovery workflows.</li>
  <li>Work closely with Data Science teams to productionize matching and ranking models.</li>
  <li>Improve match quality through feature engineering, scoring strategies, and experimentation.</li>
  <li>Contribute to experimentation platforms (A/B testing) to evaluate discovery relevance.</li>
  <li>Optimise low-latency retrieval systems across large-scale candidate datasets.</li>
  <li>Ensure scalability, reliability, and observability of AI-driven discovery services.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>TECH STACK (WHAT YOU’LL WORK WITH)</strong></p>
<ul>
  <li>Python / Python and related frameworks</li>
  <li>OpenSearch</li>
  <li>Vector Search Infrastructure</li>
  <li>Kafka</li>
  <li>MySQL</li>
  <li>Redis</li>
  <li>AWS</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>EXPERTISE AND QUALIFICATIONS</strong><br>
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.<br>
• Strong programming skills in Python or Java.<br>
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and backend system design.<br>
• Experience or interest in building:<br>
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• Search or Retrieval Systems<br>
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• Recommendation Engines<br>
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• Matching or Ranking Platforms<br>
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;• AI-enabled Backend Systems<br>
• Familiarity with semantic search, embeddings, or ML-based ranking is a plus.<br>
• Ability to collaborate across Engineering, Product, and Data Science teams.<br>
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.<br>
• Passion for building intelligent systems that impact real-world hiring outcomes.</p>

India HQ

Software Engineer

<p>Reporting directly to our Director of Sales, this Account Executive is a hunter role focused on acquiring new customers in the HR/recruiting/talent space.</p>
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<p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p>
<ul>
  <li>Source and close new business to consistently meet or exceed quarterly sales quotas</li>
  <li>Manage the full sales cycle: Prospect for new customers, perform online demos to stakeholders and decision makers, create proposals, and close deals</li>
  <li>Clearly articulate and demonstrate our Sense value proposition, creating excitement and enthusiasm among new prospects</li>
  <li>Land new business within greenfield territory</li>
  <li>Engage and educate senior-level decision-makers within staffing and recruiting and be able to educate them on the importance of our platform solution and validate Sense’s client potential</li>
  <li>Partner with the Business Development, Marketing, and Product teams to develop account-based engagement strategies to build trust and deliver client value</li>
  <li>Track and record metrics throughout the sales process to accurately forecast revenue</li>
</ul>
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US - Remote

Account Executive, Staffing

<p>We’re looking for a <strong>Senior Demand Generation Manager</strong> to own and scale our pipeline generation efforts. This role is responsible for building integrated, multi-channel programs that drive qualified demand across the full buyer’s journey—from first touch through opportunity creation. You’ll partner closely with Sales, SDRs, and Product Marketing to translate strategy into measurable revenue impact.</p>
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<p>This role is fully remote / work from home based in the continental US. &nbsp;</p>
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<h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h3>
<ul>
  <li>Own the strategy, planning, and execution of demand generation programs across email, paid media, webinars, content syndication, events, and ABM campaigns</li>
  <li>Develop integrated campaigns mapped to each stage of the buyer’s journey with clear pipeline and revenue goals</li>
  <li>Manage and optimize marketing automation and CRM workflows, including lead scoring, routing, and lifecycle management</li>
  <li>Analyze campaign and funnel performance to identify insights, optimize conversion rates, and improve ROI</li>
  <li>Partner with SDR and Sales leaders to align on ICPs, personas, SLAs, and opportunity sourcing targets</li>
  <li>Build and deliver weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting on pipeline, revenue influence, and channel performance to marketing and revenue leadership</li>
  <li>Test, learn, and scale—own experimentation across channels, messaging, and offers to continuously improve results</li>
</ul>
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Sr. Demand Generation Manager (US - Remote)

<p>As an Enterprise Account Manager on the Sense sales team, you’ll play an active role on the small, but mighty team, shaping and developing the strategies to grow Sense’s presence upmarket and build meaningful relationships with both potential and existing Enterprise customers across all types of industries. You will be specifically focused on managing and growing our largest, most strategic accounts. &nbsp;This position reports to the VP of Enterprise Sales and is a US position working from home remotely, ideally based in the continental US.</p>
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<p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p>
<ul>
  <li>Provide superior client service to maximize client satisfaction and retention in partnership with our CSM team</li>
  <li>Actively manage client product usage, proactively resolve client issues, and help C-level and VP-level executives gain maximum value from their subscriptions</li>
  <li>Expand the use of our platform within Enterprise-level clients. You will help identify, cultivate, and close additional revenue opportunities to fuel our continued growth</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>What We Offer</strong></p>
<ul>
  <li>Industry knowledge</li>
  <li>Product expertise. Gain experience working with various internal departments to provide the highest level of service to our clients and have a voice in improving our solutions</li>
  <li>Professional Growth. We actively invest in our professional’s career development</li>
</ul>

Account Manager, Enterprise Sales

<h1><strong>About the Position</strong></h1>
<p>As the Lead Product Manager – Data &amp; Integrations, you will own and drive Sense’s data platform, integrations ecosystem, and enterprise implementation success. This role is foundational to Sense’s Intelligent Talent Engagement Platform and directly impacts scalability, reliability, and time-to-value for enterprise customers.</p>
<p>You will define the product vision and roadmap for data ingestion, data modeling, APIs, ATS/HRIS integrations, and implementation tooling, while also leading and mentoring a team of Technical Program Managers (TPMs) who manage ATS partnerships and complex customer implementations.</p>
<p>This is a highly cross-functional leadership role that sits at the intersection of platform strategy, customer delivery, and operational excellence, working closely with Engineering, Architecture, Customer Success, Solutions Consulting, and Go-To-Market teams.</p>
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<h2><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></h2>
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<h3>Product Strategy &amp; Vision</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Define and own the long-term Data &amp; Integrations Platform vision, aligned with Sense’s broader Intelligent CRM and AI roadmap.</li>
  <li>Establish a scalable, reliable, and extensible architecture for:
    <ul>
      <li>ATS &amp; HRIS integrations</li>
      <li>Data ingestion, normalization, and enrichment</li>
      <li>APIs, webhooks, and event-driven systems</li>
      <li>Customer-specific data workflows and configurations</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Partner with Engineering and Architecture to make strategic trade-offs between flexibility, standardization, and speed.</li>
  <li>Stay deeply engaged with enterprise customers, ATS partners, and internal stakeholders to anticipate evolving data and integration needs.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Roadmap &amp; Prioritization</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Build and maintain a data platform-first roadmap balancing:
    <ul>
      <li>New integrations and partner expansions<br>
Platform scalability and performance</li>
      <li>Implementation velocity and operational efficiency</li>
      <li>Technical debt and reliability improvements</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Prioritize initiatives based on customer impact, revenue enablement, implementation complexity, and long-term platform health.</li>
  <li>Clearly communicate roadmap, dependencies, and trade-offs to executive and cross-functional stakeholders.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Product Development &amp; Execution</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Lead the EPD (Engineering–Product–Design) triad for Data &amp; Integrations initiatives.</li>
  <li>Translate complex, ambiguous problem spaces into clear product requirements, system flows, APIs, and acceptance criteria.</li>
  <li>Work closely with TPMs and Engineering to unblock execution across multiple concurrent enterprise implementations.</li>
  <li>Ensure high standards of data quality, observability, security, and compliance across all integrations.</li>
  <li>Partner with Product Marketing and GTM teams to support launches of new integrations and platform capabilities.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Customer, Partner &amp; Stakeholder Engagement</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Act as the primary product owner for ATS relationships, integration health, and enterprise data workflows.</li>
  <li>Collaborate with Customer Success, Solutions Consulting, and Implementation teams to reduce time-to-value and improve deployment predictability.<br>
Engage directly with strategic customers during discovery, escalations, and roadmap validation.</li>
  <li>Track and improve key platform metrics such as:
    <ul>
      <li>Integration stability and uptime</li>
      <li>Implementation timelines</li>
      <li>Data accuracy and completeness</li>
      <li>Customer adoption and satisfaction</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Work with Product Analytics to derive actionable insights from platform usage and operational data.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Team Leadership &amp; People Management</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Lead, mentor, and manage Technical Program Managers (TPMs) responsible for ATS partnerships and complex customer implementations.</li>
  <li>Provide clear direction, career growth, and performance feedback to TPMs.</li>
  <li>Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement across product and delivery teams.</li>
  <li>Act as a role model for structured thinking, calm execution, and customer-first decision-making.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Qualifications</h2>
<h3>Experience</h3>
<ul>
  <li>10+ years of overall experience with 7+ years in Product Management within B2B Enterprise SaaS.</li>
  <li>Strong experience owning platform, data, or integration-heavy products.</li>
  <li>Proven track record of delivering complex, multi-system products at enterprise scale.</li>
  <li>Experience working closely with Engineering, Architecture, and Customer-facing teams in agile environments.</li>
  <li>Prior experience managing or leading TPMs, implementation teams, or platform execution roles is highly desirable.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Skills</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Exceptional system design and platform thinking skills.</li>
  <li>Strong understanding of:
    <ul>
      <li>APIs, ETL pipelines, event-driven architectures</li>
      <li>Enterprise SaaS integrations (ATS, HRIS, CRM ecosystems preferred)</li>
      <li>Data modeling, reliability, and observability concepts</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, especially in ambiguous and high-stakes scenarios.</li>
  <li>Ability to balance long-term platform strategy with near-term customer and revenue needs.</li>
  <li>Proficiency with product and delivery tools such as Jira, Notion, Confluence, and analytics platforms.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Education</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.</li>
  <li>MBA or advanced degree is a plus but not required.</li>
</ul>
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Lead Product Manager

<p><strong>Backend Engineering Intern&nbsp;</strong></p>
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As a Backend Engineering Intern, you’ll work closely with our Core Engineering team to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services that support critical business systems and customer-facing features at Sense. This is a hands-on role where you’ll gain real product experience, contribute to live production systems, and learn modern backend development practices.</p>
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You’ll have the opportunity to tackle real engineering challenges and work across the full<br>
backend stack including APIs, databases, caching layers, and cloud infrastructure.</p>
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<strong>What You’ll Do<br>
</strong>● Collaborate with engineers on designing and implementing backend services using Java and related technologies.<br>
● Build and optimize APIs and microservices that power key product features.<br>
● Work with databases such as MySQL and MongoDB to design efficient data models and write optimized queries.<br>
● Use Redis for caching and performance optimization where needed.<br>
● Learn and work with cloud services (primarily AWS) — basics like EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, etc.<br>
● Participate in code reviews and contribute to team knowledge sharing.<br>
● Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues in both development and production environments.</p>
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<p><strong>Who You Are<br>
</strong>● Pursuing a Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.<br>
● Solid programming skills in Java.<br>
● Understanding of relational databases (e.g., MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB).<br>
● Familiarity with Redis or other caching technologies.<br>
● Basic knowledge of AWS services and cloud concepts.<br>
● Eager to learn, take ownership, and solve practical engineering problems.<br>
● Comfortable working in a fast-paced, team environment with collaborative communication.</p>
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<strong>Perks &amp; Benefits<br>
</strong>● Competitive compensation.<br>
● Wellness days for rest and recharge.<br>
● Flexible work policies to support learning and performance.</p>
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<strong>What You’ll Gain<br>
</strong>● Hands-on experience with real engineering systems used by thousands of customers.<br>
● Mentorship from experienced backend engineers.<br>
● Exposure to modern software development practices and cloud infrastructure.<br>
● Opportunity to contribute to impactful product features and launch improvements during your internship.</p>
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<p><strong>Note</strong>: Applicants must be based in Bangalore, as interviews will be conducted face to face.</p>

Software Engineering Intern – Backend

<p>As an <strong>SDET-3</strong>, you will be the technical backbone of our quality engineering team. We are looking for a hands-on expert who thrives on solving <strong>complex business problems</strong>—the kind that require deep dives into data flows, integration points, and high-scale logic. You will not only build robust automation but also act as a <strong>technical mentor</strong>, elevating the bar for everyone around you.</p>
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<h3><strong>Core Responsibilities</strong></h3>
<ul>
  <li><strong>Automation Excellence:</strong> Design and implement highly reliable automated test suites for complex web and backend applications. You should be an expert in at least one industry-standard tool (e.g., <strong>Playwright, Selenium, or RestAssured</strong>).</li>
  <li><strong>Business Logic Validation:</strong> Break down intricate business requirements into comprehensive test strategies. You will be responsible for ensuring that complex edge cases in our business workflows are covered by automation.</li>
  <li><strong>Framework Ownership:</strong> Take ownership of the testing framework's health. You will optimize execution speed, reduce flakiness, and ensure the framework scales as the product grows.</li>
  <li><strong>Team Guidance:</strong> Lead by example through <strong>high-quality code reviews</strong>. You will mentor junior and mid-level engineers, helping them improve their automation patterns and debugging skills.</li>
  <li><strong>Cross-Functional Collaboration:</strong> Partner with Developers and Product Managers during the design phase to ensure "testability" is built into the product from day one.</li>
</ul>

Lead SDET 

<div style="">As a part of the Sense team, you’ll play an active role in shaping and developing our products and processes. Our founders are lifelong entrepreneurs with a history of building, scaling, and successfully exiting large companies. At Sense, your career goals will be supported through active mentorship and learning and development opportunities. We’re an experienced team and looking for great people to add to our team.We care deeply about the success of our customers and strive to help them achieve their goals in inspiring and engaging with their workforce. Sense is seeking a Senior or Lead Frontend Engineer to deliver our contractor communication platform to the world’s best places to work.</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">As a Frontend Engineer at Sense, you’ll be intimately involved with bringing features from idea to completion, and mentoring an incredibly talented group of peers.</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">You’ll join a collaborative, fun team where everyone, including you, is active in the product defining and development process. Our founders are lifelong entrepreneurs and have built and scaled large companies. By working with them, you will have the front row seat to see how a company grows and scales. We want to support your career goals, whether it remains here or beyond. Interested in knowing how product management or sales work? Let’s have you sit in on actual sales calls. Wondering how to grow engineering teams in a high growth company? We’ll directly mentor you and you’ll learn from those who’ve been at multiple successful companies. Sense is a rapidly scaling company making this the best environment to take on ownership as well as learning how to grow a company.</div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><b style="font-weight: 700">Responsibilities</b>&nbsp;</div><div style="">Contribute to the ongoing development and upkeep of our design system</div><div style="">Provide product ownership and mentor a team of talented Frontend Engineers&nbsp;</div><div style="">Build and maintain crisp, consistent interfaces for our customers&nbsp;</div><div style="">Lead code reviews, pairing sessions, and architecture discussions&nbsp;</div><div style="">Responsibility for several large-scale ReactJS web applications&nbsp;</div><div style="">Work closely with our cross-functional teams consisting of designers, product managers, and QA in an agile, fast-paced environment&nbsp;</div><div style="">Implement and maintain features such as Chat interfaces and data visualisations&nbsp;</div><div style="">Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions&nbsp;</div><div style="">Participate in interviews and hiring as we staff up our team</div>

Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

<p><strong>About the role</strong></p>
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<p>We care deeply about the success of our customers and strive to help them achieve their goals in inspiring and engaging with their workforce. Sense is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to deliver our contractor communication platform to the world's best places to work. Sense is a rapidly scaling company making this the best environment to take on ownership as well as learning how to grow a company.</p>
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<p>Sense is building an intelligent recruiting automation platform to help job seekers find the right opportunity. Sense's platform is responsible for interactions with millions of candidates for help gathering their relevant skills, updating their resumes and identifying those jobs for which they are best suited. We're excited to expand the Sense platform with new capabilities to save candidates and recruiters time and streamline the hiring process.</p>
<p>We're looking for a hands-on technical lead to lead a team of talented data scientists with an interest in dialog systems, natural language processing, &nbsp;textual analysis, and recommendation systems.</p>
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<p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p>
<p>• Lead and mentor a group of data scientists to tackle impactful problems such as Recommendation, Search Relevance, Knowledge Graph, etc. Your efforts will critically impact the growth of Sense’s Talent Management Platform.</p>
<p>• Analyze datasets with traditional and modern data science techniques</p>
<p>• Design new models and algorithms and develop proof-of-concept implementations</p>
<p>• Support executive leadership in developing Data Science &amp; NLP strategy</p>
<p>• Keep up-to-date on advances in NLP</p>
<p>• Leverage deep technical knowledge and work across data science, product and engineering teams working together to accomplish extremely ambitious goals and build a great product.</p>
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Senior/Lead Data Scientist

<p>JOB DESCRIPTION</p>
<ul>
  <li>Lead the development and maintenance of comprehensive technical documentation, including user manuals, API guides, and online help resources.</li>
  <li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineers, product managers, and designers, to gather and understand complex technical information about various product features.</li>
  <li>Translate intricate technical concepts into clear, concise, and user-friendly content, ensuring accuracy and completeness.</li>
  <li>Develop and maintain documentation style guides and standardized typographies to maintain consistency across all materials.</li>
  <li>Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to effectively communicate complex subjects to a diverse audience.</li>
  <li>Manage documentation projects, including planning, scheduling, and meeting deadlines.</li>
  <li>Collaborate in user testing and gather feedback to refine documentation and user guides for optimal usability.</li>
  <li>Act as a subject matter expert in technical writing tools and methodologies, contributing to the improvement of documentation processes.</li>
</ul>
<p>SKILLS AND EXPERTISE</p>
<ul>
  <li>Proven working experience in technical writing of software documentation</li>
  <li>Ability to quickly grasp complex technical concepts and convert the concepts into easily understandable documentation.</li>
  <li>Good working knowledge of typography and technical documentation models</li>
  <li>Good knowledge of content authoring tools, including HTML-based editors</li>
  <li>Good knowledge of the software development life cycle</li>
  <li>Excellent written and oral communication skills</li>
  <li>Self-starter and ability to work independently</li>
  <li>Flexible/adaptable with the ability to set and manage multiple priorities</li>
  <li>Ability to work under minimum supervision and in a geographically distributed team</li>
</ul>

Technical Writer

<div style="">Sense is transforming the way companies hire with AI-powered technology designed to bring unprecedented speed, precision, and personalization to every step of the recruiting process. Our mission is to reimagine how organizations engage with talent—creating faster, smarter, and more human experiences for employers, recruiters, and job seekers alike.</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">Founded in 2015, Sense is a high-growth HR Tech SaaS company serving over 1,000 customers worldwide. With 250+ team members and backing from Google Ventures, SoftBank, Accel, and Avataar Ventures, we’ve scaled rapidly and continue to lead innovation in talent engagement and automation.</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">Our diverse and collaborative team is tackling one of the most universal challenges in the workforce—helping people find meaningful work faster. At Sense, you’ll have the opportunity to shape innovative AI solutions that are changing how the world hires, impacting millions of careers globally. Join us in building the future of hiring.</div>