Careers
Build the infrastructure, rather than write about it.
Udgam is pre-seed and pre-launch. That means real ownership, an unusually clear problem, and none of the certainty that comes with joining something that already works.
Before you read the roles
What joining now actually means.
- The problem is unusually well specified — there is a complete product spec, not a pitch deck and a hunch
- Demand is validated on both sides before a line of production code — you will not build into silence
- Real ownership of a surface, not a ticket queue inside someone else's architecture
- The work compounds: by year three the platform holds education-to-employment data that does not exist anywhere else in India
- Pre-seed. Compensation is below what a large company would pay, offset by equity that may be worth nothing
- Four stakeholder groups, each of whom can kill adoption on their own
- Institutional sales cycles measured in months, which tests everyone's patience
- The platform does not launch until Q1 2027 — you are building for a long time before anyone uses it
Open roles
Six roles we are actively looking to fill.
Founding Engineer — Platform
TypeScript, Node, PostgreSQL. You will build the outcome engine — the part that turns marked assessments into attainment nobody can dispute. The hardest correctness problem in the product.
ApplyFounding Engineer — AI
You will own the four AI engines: curriculum drafting, the student learning coach, talent matching, and platform operations. Prompt design, evaluation harnesses, and knowing when the model should not be trusted.
ApplyProduct Designer
Five personas with genuinely different motivations, and a three-second rule for each of them. Instagram patterns for students, a control tower for placement officers, an executive scorecard for deans.
ApplyInstitutional Partnerships
You will sit across from deans, IQAC coordinators and placement officers. You need to understand accreditation well enough to be useful in the meeting, not just present in it.
ApplyCorporate Partnerships
Converting letters of intent into live engagement. Talent heads, CHROs and MSME founders — three very different conversations, all about the same cost-per-hire problem.
ApplyListing Review & Trust
Every listing on the platform is read by a person before it goes live. You will build and run that function — the thing that makes students trust an MSME listing as much as a corporate one.
ApplyHow we work
Four things that are true about working here.
Write it down
Decisions live in documents, not in someone's memory of a call. The product spec is the proof that this is real.
Every claim needs a mechanism
We do not put a number on the website unless we can show the machinery behind it. Same standard internally.
Disagree in the room
An advisor who disagrees with how we are solving this is more useful than one who nods. Same for a colleague.
Build in India, for India
All data in India. Tier-2 and tier-3 institutions are the point, not a later phase.
platform launch — the date everything is built toward
stakeholder groups, any one of which can make or break adoption
students targeted in the first year after launch
A billion people given genuine access to opportunity based on what they can do, rather than where they studied, is not just an economic transformation.
Viksit Bharat
Every student placed is one more proof that $30 trillion is possible.
Talent Access
India's verified talent — from Nagpur, Coimbatore, Guwahati, not just IITs.
Placements
Not more drives. Better matches. Lasting placements.
Get in touch
Tell us what you'd want to own.
No cover letter. Tell us which part of this problem you would want to be responsible for, and why you think the obvious approach to it is wrong.