
We empower retailers to understand store activity as it happens by unlocking insights into product interactions, performance, and shopper behavior. Our AI platform helps retailers operate more…

We empower retailers to understand store activity as it happens by unlocking insights into product interactions, performance, and shopper behavior. Our AI platform helps retailers operate more…
Headquarters: Portugal (Lisbon)
Product: AI-driven autonomous retail platform (computer vision, sensor fusion, live virtual baskets)
Scale: 100+ active points of sale; deployments across Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Brazil
Recent funding: €15M Series A (Oct 2024) led by BlueCrow Capital
Total capital raised (reported): $~23–25M
Automating in-store retail operations and checkout processes; retail analytics and shopper behavior understanding.
2017
IT Services and IT Consulting
$6.5M
Seed reported as $6.5M (≈€5.4M) with participation from 200M Fund (BPF) and LeadX Capital.
€15M
Series A reported at €15M (≈$16.2M); participants named include Lince Capital, Explorer Investments, Kamay Ventures, Metro AG and others.
“Participating investors include growth and corporate investors such as BlueCrow Capital, Seaya Ventures, Iberis Capital, Metro AG and sector-focused VCs”
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About Sensei: Sensei is truly revolutionising the retail business and technology sectors with innovative solutions. Our in-house systems enable us to digitise physical stores and power them with the most advanced AI, computer vision, and real-time data processing technology — all within a reliable, cost-effective, and privacy-driven platform. This delivers the most seamless, checkout-free shopping experience in the world.
Our technology already operates in multiple countries with leading retailers and distinguishes itself by offering a unique, frictionless retail experience that welcomes all shoppers and payment methods, with real-time basket management and analytics.
About Your Team: The Software Engineering team is at the heart of Sensei’s platform, building the distributed systems that make autonomous retail possible. Our engineers design, develop, and deploy high-performance services that process real-time data streams from multiple sources, including cameras, sensors, and edge devices, ensuring reliability, scalability, and low latency.By combining strong engineering principles, DevOps culture, and automation, the team’s mission is to deliver production-grade systems that integrate seamlessly with Sensei’s AI and Computer Vision technology.
How Can You Help? We’re looking for a smart, highly qualified Senior Software Engineer who will play a key role in designing, implementing, and maintaining the backbone of Sensei’s real-time autonomous retail platform. You will work on distributed and event-driven systems, microservices, and end-to-end pipelines that connect vision-based AI insights with robust, on-premise and cloud infrastructures.
You’ll collaborate closely with Computer Vision (CV), Data Engineering, and Dev-Ops teams, ensuring our systems are performant, observable, and production-ready. You will also be responsible for improving deployment pipelines, implementing best practices for software development, service communication, system monitoring, and delivering resilient, scalable software solutions.
At Sensei, you’ll be at the forefront of redefining how software supports next-generation AI-based retail experiences.
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We put all of our employees at very high standards, and we want you to be thoroughly rewarded for that. We believe in providing the best environment to allow you to do your best work, and we currently offer:
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