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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.

Design, build, and program autonomous physical systems — drones, factory and warehouse robots, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), surgical and rehabilitation robots, agricultural rovers, and the perception / planning / control stacks that make them work. The role spans mechanical CAD, electronics, embedded firmware, ROS / ROS 2 middleware, sensor fusion (LiDAR, IMU, stereo camera, GPS), SLAM, motion planning, and increasingly ML-based perception. In India, robotics hiring is concentrated in defense and aerospace (DRDO, ISRO, BEL, HAL), the EV stack (Ola Electric, Ather, Mahindra for ADAS prototypes), warehouse automation (GreyOrange, Addverb, Flux Auto), agritech (Niqo Robotics, EF Polymer), and a small but rapidly growing surgical / medical robotics space (SS Innovations, Meril Life). The work sits at the intersection of mechanical, electrical, and software engineering in a way few other roles do.

Senior: ₹55.0L

Unity Game Developers write C# gameplay systems in Unity's MonoBehaviour and DOTS (Data-Oriented Technology Stack) architectures to ship mobile, PC, console, and WebGL games. In India the role spans mobile game studios (Mech Mocha, Octro, Junglee Games, Moonfrog, Nazara, SuperGaming), ad-tech game publishers (InMobi Games, Loco, Zupee), and thousands of indie developers publishing Play Store and iOS App Store titles. Daily work spans MonoBehaviour lifecycle management (Awake/Start/Update/LateUpdate), ScriptableObject data architecture for decoupled game configuration, URP and HDRP shader authoring in ShaderGraph, Unity's Animation Rigging + Animator state machine construction, Mirror and Netcode for GameObjects multiplayer integration, Unity Ads + IAP SDK plumbing, Unity Profiler and Android GPU Inspector memory-and-GPU debugging, Addressables asset management, and build pipelines targeting Android/iOS/WebGL with IL2CPP scripting backend. Unity dominates Indian mobile and indie game development — it is the engine at every mid-size and consumer mobile studio in India, and the overwhelming choice for solo developers and indie teams publishing on the Play Store.

Senior: ₹50.0L

AR/VR Developers build immersive spatial experiences — from ARKit/ARCore-powered try-on flows on retail apps to standalone VR training simulations on Meta Quest, and enterprise AR on Microsoft HoloLens or Snap Spectacles. Core work is Unity C# or Unreal C++ scripting, shader authoring for pass-through and stereo rendering, hand-tracking and controller input logic, spatial audio integration, and GPU performance budgeting to hit 90/120 fps without ASW artifacts. In India, the role concentrates in enterprise verticals: Tata Elxsi (automotive and healthcare AR), Wipro Vizualite, L&T Technology Services (industrial AR for Bharat Forge and L&T construction), Lenskart's WebAR try-on stack, Flipkart AR (furniture preview), Jio Glass software team (Reliance Jio), and a growing cohort of boutique XR studios in Bengaluru and Hyderabad shipping for global brands. Consumer AR (social filters, retail try-on) and enterprise AR (field-service, training, digital twin overlays) are the two dominant revenue streams — understanding which you're building for changes the entire tech stack.

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Film Sound Engineers in India design, capture, and mix the entire sonic world of a film — from production sound recording on set (booms, lavaliers, timecode sync) through Foley, ADR, sound design, and the final Dolby Atmos or 5.1 theatrical mix. The discipline runs from single-reel regional productions to ₹200-crore Hindi and Tamil tentpoles, with Resul Pookutty's Oscar win for Slumdog Millionaire (2008) the defining proof-of-concept for Indian talent on the global stage. The pipeline spans three tiers: production sound (live set recording), post-production sound (editing, ADR, Foley, sound design), and the final mix (dialogue, music, effects balance — the M&E pass is critical for international distribution and dubbing markets). Mumbai's studios — Sound & Vision India (Andheri), Spectrum Audio (Juhu), Prime Focus Sound — anchor Bollywood; Chennai and Hyderabad anchor South Indian production. FTII Pune's Sound Recording diploma and SRFTI Kolkata's Sound Design MFA are the two government-accredited routes; SAE Institute (Mumbai, Pune) and ITM's ICRM offer private alternatives. Pro Tools is the dominant DAW; Avid S6 and SSL consoles dominate theatrical mix stages; Nuendo and Reaper are used in smaller post houses. International distribution requires a clean M&E (music and effects) stem — a commercial imperative that elevates the technical bar for every senior mixer working on OTT and export titles.

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Oceanographers in India are primarily employed at three national institutions under MoES (Ministry of Earth Sciences): CSIR-NIO Goa (physical, chemical, biological, and geological oceanography), INCOIS Hyderabad (ocean information and advisory services — ARGO float network, RAMA buoys, storm-surge forecasts), and NCPOR Goa (polar and Southern Ocean research, including India's Bharati and Maitri Antarctic stations). Typical work spans at-sea data collection during research cruises aboard ORV Sagar Nidhi and ORV Sagar Sampada, analysis of satellite ocean data (MODIS chlorophyll, AVHRR SST, SARAL/AltiKa SSH), numerical ocean modelling (ROMS, NEMO, MOM6), and manuscript preparation for journals like the Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans and Deep-Sea Research. Entry requires M.Sc in Oceanography, Marine Sciences, or related Physical/Chemical sciences; senior research positions (Scientist C/D) typically demand a PhD with a published record in Indian Ocean dynamics, monsoon-ocean coupling, or polar oceanography.

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