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NLP Engineers build production language systems — Indic-language models, automatic speech recognition (ASR) and synthesis (TTS), document understanding for enterprise paperwork, IVR and voice-bot stacks for Indian customer support, named-entity recognition and information extraction, and the increasingly common multimodal pipelines that fuse text with vision and speech. The work blends applied research, production engineering, and dataset craft: you train and fine-tune transformer models for low-resource Indic languages, curate parallel corpora and labeled datasets, optimize inference for cost, debug failure modes that only show up in code-mixed Hindi-English speech or in handwritten Tamil documents, and own quality SLOs that mix accuracy, latency, and fairness across 22 official Indian languages. In India through 2026, NLP is one of the highest-impact applied-AI specializations because the global English-first NLP literature transfers poorly to Indic languages — concentrated demand sits at AI-native startups (Sarvam AI, Krutrim, Ola Krutrim, Yellow.ai), the public-good NLP groups at AI4Bharat (IIT-Madras) and Bhashini (Government of India), enterprise SaaS (Freshworks, Zoho ZIA, Postman, Verloop, Haptik), fintech (Razorpay, Cred, Paytm, M2P, IDfy), and the GCCs of Microsoft, Google, Adobe, and Amazon.

Power BI Developers design, build, and maintain the BI layer that turns raw enterprise data into decision-grade dashboards for finance, operations, sales, and supply-chain teams. The core loop is: connecting heterogeneous sources via Power Query (M language), modelling star schemas with fact and dimension tables, writing DAX measures and calculated columns for time-intelligence and KPI logic, publishing to Power BI Service workspaces, enforcing row-level security policies, and tuning slow reports by reducing visual-query counts and optimising DirectQuery folding. In India, this role is the Microsoft-stack alternative to Tableau development — deeply embedded in the M365-heavy enterprises: TCS, Infosys Nia practice, Wipro's Microsoft Business Applications unit, Mahindra Group, Tata Group digital, L&T Infotech (LTIMindtree), HCL, and every banking captive running Azure Synapse or Fabric. Demand spiked in 2024-2026 as Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse, Semantic Model, Dataflows Gen2) expanded the Power BI surface area and pushed experienced developers into the ₹18-40L band.

Keep production systems fast, available, and observable for millions of users — by writing software that automates operations, runs capacity planning, designs SLOs and error budgets, and owns the on-call rotation for critical services. The role sits between software engineering and operations: you write Go / Python / Rust code, build reliability tooling, design distributed systems for resilience, run incident response, and push back on product launches that risk SLOs. In India, SRE is a premium specialization concentrated at FAANG-IN (Google SRE Bengaluru, Amazon, Microsoft IDC, Netflix India), product unicorns (Razorpay, Flipkart, Swiggy, Dream11, PhonePe, Zerodha), and the GCCs of high-traffic US firms (Uber, LinkedIn, Atlassian, GitHub, Cloudflare, Stripe). The work overlaps with DevOps but skews more toward software engineering: reliability is a product, not a process. Senior SRE pay in India sits at the very top of the technology bracket, often above equivalent SDE-3 backend roles.

Build and operate the internal developer platform — the CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, service mesh, secrets management, observability stack, and IaC modules — that every other engineer in the company ships on. Platform engineers turn raw cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) into a paved road: a developer pushes code, the platform takes it from commit to canary to production with logs, metrics, and rollback baked in. In India, the role is concentrated at product unicorns (Razorpay, Zerodha, CRED, PhonePe, Swiggy), GCCs of global firms (Microsoft, Atlassian, Stripe, Walmart Global Tech), and SaaS companies scaling past 200 engineers — typically the point at which a dedicated platform team starts paying for itself in shipping velocity.

Solutions Architects are the customer-facing technical role that bridges what a product can do and what a customer actually needs. They design end-to-end deployments, integrations, and migrations on behalf of the customer's engineering team — sizing infrastructure, mapping data flows, picking the right product modules, drafting reference architectures, and partnering with sales and customer-success to win and expand accounts. The role is genuinely hybrid: it requires deep technical depth (cloud, networking, security, distributed systems) and high verbal craft (workshops, executive presentations, written design docs that survive procurement and security review). In India through 2026, Solutions Architect is one of the highest-paid customer-facing technical roles, concentrated at the GCCs of cloud vendors (AWS India, Microsoft Azure India, Google Cloud India, Oracle, IBM), enterprise SaaS companies (Salesforce India, ServiceNow, Snowflake, Databricks, MongoDB, Confluent), B2B Indian product companies (Freshworks, Postman, Atlan, Hasura, Chargebee), and the systems-integrator giants (TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Accenture) where the role sits closer to delivery. Top-tier Solutions Architects in India routinely cross ₹1Cr total comp by L6+ and the role is a common path into VP-Engineering and Field-CTO seats.

Prompt Engineers design, evaluate, and ship LLM-powered features — system prompts, RAG flows, agent orchestration, structured-output schemas, and the eval harnesses that prove a prompt is actually better. The role sits between product, applied ML, and software engineering: you write prompts the way other engineers write code, run cost-quality-latency trade-off experiments, instrument grader pipelines, and own the part of the product that the LLM actually 'speaks.' In India through 2026, the role is one of the fastest-growing AI hires — concentrated at AI-native startups (Sarvam AI, Krutrim, Ola Krutrim, Atlan, Yellow.ai), product SaaS shops with a serious AI feature surface (Freshworks, Postman, Chargebee, Whatfix, Zoho ZIA), fintechs (Razorpay, Cred, Paytm), and the GCCs of Microsoft, Google, Adobe, and Salesforce. The salary band is unusually wide because the title is new and JDs vary from 'wrote one ChatGPT integration' to 'owns the eval harness for a frontier model.' Sarvam AI made several public crore-level offers to senior prompt and LLM engineers in 2025.

IoT Engineers build the full stack of connected devices — from C/C++ firmware running on ESP32, STM32, and Nordic nRF52 microcontrollers to the MQTT/CoAP messaging layer, AWS IoT Core or Azure IoT Hub cloud backend, and time-series ingestion pipelines in InfluxDB or TimescaleDB. In India, the role spans smart-home hardware at Atomberg, Havells, Legrand, boAt, and Wakefit; industrial IoT at Honeywell, Siemens, Bosch, L&T Technology Services, and Tata Elxsi; asset tracking and telematics at Jio, Reliance Jio Platforms, and Tata; and government-grade smart-city/smart-grid IoT at BEL, BSNL, and ECIL. Unlike pure embedded engineers, IoT Engineers must simultaneously own low-power radio link budgets (BLE, Wi-Fi, LoRa, NB-IoT, Zigbee), device identity and certificate provisioning, over-the-air (OTA) update security, and cloud-side data pipelines — the role is inherently cross-layer.

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Keep production systems fast, available, and observable for millions of users — by writing software that automates operations, runs capacity planning, designs SLOs and error budgets, and owns the on-call rotation for critical services. The role sits between software engineering and operations: you write Go / Python / Rust code, build reliability tooling, design distributed systems for resilience, run incident response, and push back on product launches that risk SLOs. In India, SRE is a premium specialization concentrated at FAANG-IN (Google SRE Bengaluru, Amazon, Microsoft IDC, Netflix India), product unicorns (Razorpay, Flipkart, Swiggy, Dream11, PhonePe, Zerodha), and the GCCs of high-traffic US firms (Uber, LinkedIn, Atlassian, GitHub, Cloudflare, Stripe). The work overlaps with DevOps but skews more toward software engineering: reliability is a product, not a process. Senior SRE pay in India sits at the very top of the technology bracket, often above equivalent SDE-3 backend roles.

Senior: ₹65.0L

Aerospace engineers in India design, build, and test aircraft, satellites, launch vehicles, missiles, and propulsion systems. The career spans ISRO (Bengaluru, Sriharikota, Thiruvananthapuram) building PSLV/GSLV/Chandrayaan/Gaganyaan, HAL on the Tejas LCA and helicopter platforms in Bengaluru, DRDO labs on missile and UAV programmes, and private players like Tata Advanced Systems, L&T, Larsen Aerospace, Boeing India (Bengaluru/Chennai), Airbus India, Honeywell, Collins Aerospace, and emerging space startups Skyroot, Agnikul, Pixxel, and Dhruva Space. You work on aerodynamics, structures, propulsion, avionics, GNC, or systems integration. Entry is via a B.Tech / B.E. in Aerospace, Mechanical, or Electrical from IITs, IISc, IIST, MIT Manipal, PEC, or Anna University, often paired with an M.Tech or PhD for ISRO/DRDO scientist roles cleared through ISRO ICRB, GATE, or UPSC ESE.

Senior: ₹45.0L

Node.js Developers build the JavaScript/TypeScript backend that powers India's fastest-growing internet products — Razorpay's payment APIs, Cred's rewards engine, Zomato's order-routing service, Swiggy's logistics coordination, PhonePe's UPI switch, and Flipkart's catalogue microservices all run significant Node.js workloads. The role is distinct from generic backend development: the entire runtime is single-threaded with non-blocking I/O powered by libuv and the V8 engine, so correctness demands understanding the event loop, async/await patterns, stream backpressure, and clustering — not just REST endpoint boilerplate. Day-to-day work centers on Express.js, NestJS, or Fastify server code; Mongoose/Prisma ORM for MongoDB or Postgres; JWT + Passport auth; Socket.io real-time layers; and gRPC-based microservice communication. In India, Node.js backend specialists are hired by every tier of company — services firms (Infosys Node.js practice, TCS digital), product unicorns (Zerodha, Meesho, ShareChat), GCCs (Microsoft, Amazon India), and a dense startup ecosystem in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, and remote — making this one of the most liquid job markets for any specialized backend role.

Senior: ₹60.0L

Petroleum Geologists locate, characterise, and quantify subsurface hydrocarbon accumulations — the foundational scientific step before any drilling decision is made. In India the role sits almost entirely within five major employers: ONGC (the dominant hirer across all basins), Oil India Limited (Assam and Rajasthan), Reliance E&P (KG-D6 and CBM blocks), Cairn Oil & Gas / Vedanta (Rajasthan Barmer basin), and GSPC (Gujarat). Beyond these, a handful of consultancy and data-services firms (KGOC, Gaffney Cline, IHS Markit / S&P Global Commodity Insights) handle NELP/OALP block-evaluation work. Day-to-day work is seismic interpretation in Schlumberger Petrel or IHS Kingdom, well-log correlation using gamma-ray, resistivity, porosity, and sonic curves, prospect-generation and play analysis across sedimentary basins, reservoir characterisation, hydrocarbon-volume estimation at P10/P50/P90 confidence levels, and basin modelling using source-reservoir-seal-trap-migration analysis. The entry standard is M.Sc or M.Tech in Petroleum Geology, Applied Geology, or Marine Geoscience — IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Roorkee, IIT Madras (CSEG), and Osmania University are the strongest feeders. ONGC's Geoscientist trainee exam (via GATE Geology & Geophysics paper or ONGC's direct written test) and OIL's similar intake are the main competitive entry routes.

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