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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.

Shopify Developers build, customize, and extend online stores on Shopify and Shopify Plus — writing Liquid templates for Online Store 2.0 sections and blocks, shipping Remix-based Shopify Apps via the Polaris design system, and integrating headless storefronts using Hydrogen (React) against the Storefront API. In India, the role is driven by the D2C explosion: Mamaearth, boAt, Sugar Cosmetics, Noise, and hundreds of mid-market brands run Shopify Plus stores, fed by a mature agency ecosystem (Codilar, StoreHippo-adjacent shops, Lifograph, Krish Commerce) and thousands of solo freelancers earning USD from global Shopify merchants. Senior practitioners build Shopify Apps published on the Partner marketplace — recurring-revenue SaaS products generating $10K-100K MRR for India-based solo founders. The technical ceiling has risen sharply with Shopify Functions (Rust compiled to WebAssembly for discount, shipping, and validation logic), GraphQL Admin/Storefront APIs, and Shopify CLI 3+ — demanding real software-engineering depth beyond theme editing.

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Drone pilots in India operate Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) across agriculture, survey, infrastructure inspection, and cinematic production under the DGCA's Remote Pilot Certificate (RPC) framework. The job spans agri-spray missions under the PM Kisan Drone scheme (PMFBY/PMAY-Y) for players like Garuda Aerospace and IoTechWorld Avicare, LiDAR and photogrammetry surveys for highways and mining (ideaForge, Asteria Aerospace, Huviair), defence-grade VTOL ops, and Bollywood/OTT cinematic aerials. Every commercial flight requires DigitalSky permission, a Green/Yellow/Red zone clearance check, and NPNT-compliant hardware. Entry is via DGCA-approved Remote Pilot Training Organisations (RPTO) and the RPC exam for the relevant drone class — Small, Medium, or Large.

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Horticulturists in India manage the production of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and plantation crops across field orchards, polyhouses, and protected-cultivation units — the sector is the second-largest agricultural subsector by value, anchored by schemes like MIDH (Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture) and the National Horticulture Mission. Employers span IIHR Bengaluru, IARI New Delhi, and Karnataka Agricultural University on the research side, and private players like Tata-Rallis, Syngenta India, Bayer CropScience, Jain Irrigation, Mahindra Agri, and UPL on the commercial side. Day-to-day work includes polyhouse climate management, IPM-based pest and disease protocols, hi-density planting, fertigation scheduling, GAP (Good Agricultural Practices) compliance for export, and coordinating FPO-linked farmers on MIDH scheme rollouts. Entry is via B.Sc Horticulture from state agricultural universities (SAUs) or ICAR institutions, optionally followed by M.Sc from IIHR, IARI, or GBPUAT Pantnagar.

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The Chef de Cuisine is the head of a single kitchen or restaurant outlet — one rung below an Executive Chef in a large hotel hierarchy, or the top of the food chain in a standalone restaurant. In India this means running the kitchen at a 5-star hotel outlet (Wasabi by Morimoto at Taj Mumbai, Bukhara at ITC Maurya Delhi, Indian Accent Delhi), a boutique fine-dining restaurant, or a mid-to-large standalone multi-outlet brand. Typical experience is 6–12 years, with the final step-up from Sous Chef happening when a chef demonstrates menu-design ownership, brigade management, and outlet-level P&L accountability. The role covers everything from purchasing and vendor negotiations to plating consistency, FSSAI compliance, food cost control, and service-floor coordination. Entry paths include graduating from IHM (Institute of Hotel Management) institutions across India — IHM Chennai, IHM Pusa Delhi, IHM Mumbai — followed by a progression through commis, demi-chef, chef de partie, and sous chef before reaching CdC level. At the top of scale, a CdC may spin off as a chef-owner of their own restaurant, with equity in the brand.

Senior: ₹50.0L

WordPress developers build, customise, and maintain websites on the world's largest CMS — powering 43% of all websites globally. The role spans custom theme and child-theme development, Gutenberg block authoring in React, plugin development using WordPress hooks and filters, WooCommerce store customisation, ACF-driven content architectures, performance hardening via object cache (Redis) and page cache (WP Rocket, W3TC), and security hardening with Wordfence or Sucuri. In India, demand is driven by three distinct markets: the massive SMB freelance economy (Upwork, Fiverr, PeoplePerHour), domestic digital agencies (rtCamp, Multidots, WPWeb Infotech, AccessPress), and enterprise WordPress via WordPress VIP or Pantheon for media and e-commerce clients. The rtCamp-to-Automattic pipeline is the most visible career ceiling in the Indian WP ecosystem — rtCamp contributes significantly to WordPress core and has been a launchpad for engineers at Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com) who earn dollar salaries while working remotely from Indian cities.

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