Customer experience software · Cloud contact center· Raanana (13 Zarhin St) · Hoboken NJ secondary·~8,400 globally · several thousand in Israel
NICE runs Israel's largest customer-experience-software R&D center out of Raanana. Two early-career tracks (Engineering Student and DevOps Student) sit on top of a Greenhouse ATS, but the under-the-radar shift is the September 2025 Cognigy acquisition — $955M, 300 Düsseldorf agentic-AI engineers folded into NICE, which is changing what kinds of junior projects open up at the Raanana office.
Part-time engineering student role inside NICE's Raanana R&D, covering software development across CXone backend services and tooling. Hybrid 2 days office / 3 days remote per the current Greenhouse posting.
Eligibility
Active CS or related engineering student with two academic years completed and two semesters remaining (graduation by ~October 2026 per the current posting). Hebrew helpful but not required for the engineering track.
Schedule
Hybrid · 2 days office (Raanana) + 3 days remote · cohort timing aligned to the academic calendar.
Student DevOps role inside the cloud-platform group. Heavy on CI/CD, observability tooling, and the production pipeline behind CXone — a meaningfully different stack from the application-engineering track.
Eligibility
CS or systems engineering students with hands-on Linux + scripting (Python or Bash). Cloud (AWS/Azure) familiarity is a meaningful tiebreaker.
Schedule
Hybrid · 2 days office (Raanana) + 3 days remote · timing aligned to academic calendar.
NICE's junior intake skews toward CS students from the Tel Aviv–Raanana–Herzliya commute belt: Tel Aviv University, Bar-Ilan, Hebrew U, the Technion (some), and the Open University. Engineering-Student cohorts mix backend Java/.NET work with cloud-platform exposure; DevOps-Student cohorts pull from infra-leaning students. The Cognigy acquisition has rebalanced post-2025 hiring toward AI-adjacent juniors — candidates with even hobby-level LLM, RAG, or agent-tooling experience get more callbacks than they did 12 months ago. Hebrew helps day-to-day but isn't a hard filter; English is the working language for cross-region collaboration with the Hoboken office.
The process
Pipeline runs through Greenhouse — the front-end at nice.com/careers redirects to the brand site, but underneath the hood it's job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/nice, which means standard Greenhouse parsing rules apply (CV → keyword extraction → recruiter triage). After CV screen — typically 7–14 days for student programs — successful candidates hit a coding-style screen (most often LeetCode-equivalent, 60 minutes, two problems). Tech panel follows: 60–90 minutes, live coding with a senior engineer plus systems-design questions calibrated for student level. A culture-fit conversation with a manager closes the loop. Total time from CV to offer is typically 3–5 weeks. The hybrid 2-office / 3-remote schedule is set in the listing — not negotiated. Cohorts are not strictly synchronized; Greenhouse openings come and go through the academic year, with denser hiring in Q1 and Q3.
NICE CV — what to include
Mention CCaaS / WFM / IVR / NLU domain experience if you have any. Most candidates skip this, but NICE's product surface is exactly this domain — even passing familiarity from coursework moves you up.
C# / .NET on the CV is a real signal. NICE has a heavy .NET legacy stack alongside its newer cloud-native services; CVs without any JVM-or-.NET-family experience filter slower.
AI / LLM / RAG / agentic-tooling exposure is the new tiebreaker post-Cognigy. Even a hobby project with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or a custom agent loop separates 2026 candidates from 2024 ones.
Cloud platform names (AWS, Azure, GCP) — pick the one you actually used and back it with a project. The CXone product is multi-cloud; surface-level mentions without depth get caught.
If you're a long Tel Aviv commute away, mention you've made the Raanana drive before (e.g. for an interview at another company). NICE filters real for the location issue.
List academic graduation date precisely. The Engineering Student posting filters on "two semesters remaining as of October 2026" — fudging dates gets caught at recruiter screen.
Common mistakes that get you filtered
CV tagged as "full-stack" without naming a specific cloud or framework. NICE's Greenhouse parser ranks generic CVs lower than narrowly specific ones.
No mention of the customer-experience or contact-center domain when applying to a CXone-adjacent role. Generic SaaS framing reads as "didn't bother to research".
Hebrew-only CV when the role is part of a global product team. NICE's reading audience is bilingual; English-first or bilingual CV is the norm.
Listing tools without context ("Docker, Kubernetes, AWS") and no project that uses them together. NICE's panels test depth, not breadth.
Misjudging the office commitment. The 2-day office / 3-remote schedule is in the listing — applicants who push for fully-remote in screening get filtered.
Insights that aren't on the company's careers page
NICE briefly held the title of Israel's most-valuable company in 2021 with a $17B valuation, driven by cloud revenue crossing $1B/year — context most candidates miss when sizing the company against younger SaaS unicorns.
The September 8, 2025 Cognigy acquisition ($955M, 300 Düsseldorf engineers focused on conversational + agentic AI) folded a major AI capability into the CXone Mpower suite, which is reshaping what kinds of projects open up for Israeli juniors in 2026.
NICE operates dual headquarters: the original Raanana site at 13 Zarhin Street remains primary IL operations, with a second "global" HQ in a Hudson River waterfront office in Hoboken NJ since 2015. This is uncommon for Israeli-founded companies and signals NYC time-zone overlap expectations on some teams.
The Greenhouse ATS is reachable at job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/nice but the public URL redirects to nice.com/careers. The CV parser is standard Greenhouse, which means keyword-density tactics that work for other Greenhouse-backed Israeli companies (Wix uses Workable; Monday uses Comeet) apply here.
Glassdoor employee reviews repeatedly flag a heavy .NET legacy stack alongside the newer cloud-native services. CV-side this means C# / .NET familiarity converts to a real screening tailwind — even though the careers page never names a stack.
NICE has been dual-listed on NASDAQ (since 1996) and on TASE since the 1990s — one of roughly 30 Israeli companies on both exchanges. RSU vesting calendars therefore align with US market hours, not Israeli ones.
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