Software Engineering Roles in India
The 15 engineering profiles India hires for.
Ranked by national fresher-hiring volume, most of the hiring sits at the top of the list. Enterprise Platforms, Backend Development, and Fullstack Development each sit in the high-volume tier, while Data Science and ML sits at the lightest end. The openings for different seniority levels hold steady across most profiles, with Systems and Embedded Engineering and Security Engineering preferring more senior roles. As for where freshers should ideally aim, the targets split between MAANG and MNC or GCC.
Application Development
4Building user-facing products and the services behind them.
Data & AI
4Moving and modeling data, and building on top of AI models.
- Data Analytics & BITurning organizational data into decisions and insight.
- AI & LLM ApplicationsBuilding production systems powered by large language models.
- Data EngineeringDesigning infrastructure for reliable data movement at scale.
- Data Science & MLModelling phenomena to predict, classify, and decide.
Infrastructure, Security & Quality
3Keeping software running, secure, and correct in production.
Systems & Embedded Engineering
1Low-level software close to hardware and the operating system.
Specialized & Cross-Cutting
3Roles tied to a specific platform or industry, or spanning the rest.