Welcome and thank you for your interest in the Empatica Engineering Graduate Program! This program is designed to make the shift from student to full-time Engineer, one of the most enriching adventures you will experience. By the end of this program, you will have covered and actively worked in some of the major areas of a full-stack tech company, adding many noteworthy accomplishments to your CV. We hope, furthermore, that by the end of this journey you will have chosen Empatica’s mission for your own.
So let us begin your application process, we’re excited to meet you!
About the Graduate Program
We are seeking enthusiastic and highly motivated Graduate Engineers to join our Graduate Program. This role offers a unique opportunity to rotate through various engineering domains, including Mobile Development, Backend and Web Development, as well as Embedded Software Development and Data Science. As a Graduate Engineer, you will gain hands-on experience, receive mentorship from talented peers, and contribute to real projects that drive our company's success.
By working at Empatica, you’ll have a real opportunity to improve lives around the world, as part of a tight-knit team that shares knowledge and is eager to keep learning and improving to create top-notch products that have a meaningful impact.
Your contribution to the mission
The program consists of three rotations, each lasting four months. Participants will be assigned three out of the following four domains based on their background, interests, and career aspirations:
Each rotation is designed to provide exposure to different technologies, challenges, and real-world applications, helping graduates develop a well-rounded engineering skillset.
Gain hands-on experience in developing low-level software for embedded systems. This rotation focuses on creating embedded software for our products, with an emphasis on optimizing code to work efficiently within resource-constrained environments. You'll also gain familiarity with real-time operating systems (RTOS) and enhance your debugging skills by working directly with real-world hardware.
What you’ll learn:
You’ll work with real-world data to find patterns, build models, and tell stories through insights. Whether it's analyzing trends or building ML tools, this rotation blends coding with creativity.
What you’ll learn:
This is where you dive deep into the backend, cloud infrastructure, and everything that keeps our services and web applications running seamlessly. You'll be hands-on with building real systems—ensuring that they're not only scalable and secure, but also lightning-fast and rock-solid reliable.
What you’ll learn:
Join the team behind the apps people use every day. You’ll help build sleek, user-friendly mobile applications from the ground up, and learn what it takes to get them into users’ hands.
What you’ll learn:
Requirements
The ideal candidate for this position:
Talent is only one part of the equation. Even if you don’t meet every listed requirement, don’t rule yourself out. We seek empathy, courage, passion, and curiosity to feel at home with our company culture. A good level of English is the only requirement.
Important note: Applicants should have authorization to work in Italy, as visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
You will join a fast-growing, international, and diverse team of 120+ talented people who care passionately about what we do and the difference we are making in the world. You’ll get the opportunity to work directly with colleagues across all levels of the organization, no matter their seniority, and learn from the people who built the business and our products.
If you jump on board, we can guarantee it won't be an easy ride, but it will be one of the most rewarding experiences in your career, one that will allow you to learn a lot, have true ownership of your work, and test your whole skillset on multiple projects which are helping thousands of people worldwide.
Read our blog post and find out some reasons why we love working at Empatica.
Inclusion & Diversity
At Empatica we embrace diversity and inclusion. We have colleagues from 30 different countries, while over 50% of our team is women (double the tech average!). We believe this makes Empatica a more exciting and stimulating place to work, and brings different points of view to the table while fostering a spirit of communication, collaboration, and care, where everyone’s opinion and thoughts matter.
Benefits
Recruiter's Note:
We read a lot of applications every day, and we love seeing a human-written one! While AI can be helpful, we’re really looking for authenticity: your personality, your story, and what makes you excited about this opportunity.
We are not expecting perfection; a genuine application that is personally crafted helps you stand out in the crowd!