Technology · India · ISCO 2511
AI / ML Engineer
160K
Jobs in India
₹12–35 LPA
Typical salary
+40%
Growth outlook
5-7y
Impact timeline
What this means
The one tech role AI creation is expanding, not shrinking. Engineers who build and govern AI systems are the picks-and-shovels of this cycle.
Recommended AI tools
Adopt these early — AI fluency is becoming the baseline expectation in this role.
Your next three moves
- Specialise in evaluation and safety of LLM systems
- Build production-grade RAG and agent pipelines
- Stay current — this field reinvents itself every 6 months
Where AI touches this job
Pipeline and glue code
55%
Model experimentation
40%
System reliability engineering
20%
Research direction setting
10%
Skills that keep you durable
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Your personalised number
Generic scores inform. Your AIQ Score tells you where you stand.
Top 50 in-demand Indian roles. Exposure grounded in ILO, WEF Future of Jobs 2025, OECD and NCO 2015 (DGE). Salaries are indicative India medians (₹ LPA). Scores are exposure estimates, not displacement predictions. Data sources: ILO, WEF Future of Jobs 2025, OECD Employment Outlook, DGE/NCO 2015, PwC AI Jobs Barometer 2025, McKinsey (2025), Goldman Sachs (2025-26).