Software Engineering Roles in India
The 15 engineering profiles India hires for.
Fresher hiring volume is concentrated in three main categories: Enterprise Platforms, Backend Development, and Fullstack Development lead overall hiring, while Data Science and ML account for lower entry-level volume. Seniority distributions are consistent across most profiles, with Systems, Embedded, and Security Engineering leaning toward senior hires. The following list is ranked by national hiring volume across all seniorities.
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.