Generative AI Jobs in India

Quick answer

Generative AI jobs are roles where you build, test, deploy or apply AI systems that create text, code, images or answers, such as GenAI engineer, Gen AI developer, LLM engineer, data scientist (GenAI), AI architect and AI product manager. On 24 October 2026, Naukri showed about 10,953 results for "generative ai" across India, led by Bengaluru (4,007) and Hyderabad (2,258). These are keyword matches, not a count of open jobs, but they show steady demand. Most listings want Python, RAG, LLM APIs and a framework such as LangChain, and most experienced roles ask for 3 or more years.

Key takeaways

1. Generative AI jobs at a glance

Short answer: GenAI jobs fall into a few families: building GenAI apps, building and tuning models, designing systems, and applying GenAI in business roles. Each family asks for different skills and experience.

Use this table as your map. The experience column describes what listings we read on 24 October 2026 asked for, not a rule.

Here is the usual career flow on the build side:

If you want the full picture of the engineer role, our guide on how to become a generative AI engineer covers daily work, skills and a step-by-step path.

2. Generative AI job market snapshot: counts by city (24 October 2026)

Short answer: On 24 October 2026, Naukri showed about 10,953 results for "generative ai" in India, with Bengaluru at 4,007 and Hyderabad at 2,258; these are keyword-match counts that change daily and include duplicates and loosely related roles.

We searched Naukri for "generative ai" while logged out on 24 October 2026 and noted the "1 - 20 of N" figure for each search. Treat these as a demand signal. A listing for a generic "software engineer" that lists GenAI as one skill still counts.

Skill and role searches on the same day help you see which skills employers name:

What this tells you:

Naukri's filters on the all-India page also showed who posts these listings. By company type, "Foreign MNC" led with 4,910 results, followed by Corporate (1,272), Indian MNC (1,244) and Startup (453). Most listings (9,648) were posted by companies directly, with 1,305 from consultants.

On LinkedIn, "Generative AI" in India showed "11,000+" results on 24 October 2026. Its city figures were almost as large as the India figure, so fuzzy matching inflates them and we do not compare cities there. We also skip Naukri searches such as "llm engineer" or "prompt engineer", because Naukri broad-matched the word "engineer".

3. Generative AI jobs in Hyderabad, Bengaluru and other cities

Short answer: Hyderabad is India's number two city for GenAI listings on Naukri, with a heavy GCC and IT-services mix; Bengaluru leads on volume and has the widest spread of product companies and banks.

Generative AI jobs in Hyderabad

On 24 October 2026, Naukri showed about 2,258 results for "generative ai" in Hyderabad. The page filters showed:

That pharma number is worth noticing. Pharma and healthcare capability centres such as Bristol Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Regeneron, MSD and Optum India had senior AI listings in Hyderabad in October 2026, alongside banks such as Wells Fargo (see section 5). If you come from a life sciences or healthcare data background, Hyderabad gives you a domain edge.

Generative AI jobs in Bangalore

Bengaluru showed about 4,007 Naukri results on the same day, the highest of any city. LinkedIn's Bengaluru page showed IT services, global banks, enterprise software, consumer and analytics firms side by side.

Pune, Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi NCR

Pune (1,596) had some GenAI intern and fresher listings, such as Crisil's intern role. Chennai (1,138) often appears in multi-city listings with Hyderabad and Bengaluru. Mumbai (873), Gurgaon (781) and Noida (545) follow. Because many listings name two or three cities at once, city counts add up to more than the India total.

4. Generative AI job titles and what each one does

Short answer: The same work hides behind many titles: GenAI engineer, Gen AI developer, AI engineer, LLM engineer and applied AI engineer all build LLM-based apps, while data scientist, architect and AgentOps titles add modelling, design or operations depth.

Below are titles that appeared in listings on 24 October 2026, with what the work looks like. A few terms first:

Titles are not standard across companies. A "Data Scientist - GenAI" at one firm may do the same daily work as a "Generative AI Engineer" at another. Read the responsibilities, not just the title. To see how GenAI work differs from older AI roles, our comparison of agentic AI vs generative AI explains why "agentic" now shows up in so many titles.

5. Who hires: companies with GenAI listings (seen 24 October 2026)

Short answer: On 24 October 2026 we saw GenAI and AI listings from IT services firms, Big Four and consulting firms, bank and pharma capability centres, enterprise software companies and analytics firms; these are listings seen on that date, not hiring commitments.

Every company below had at least one listing we saw on Naukri or LinkedIn on 24 October 2026. A listing on one day does not mean a company is hiring at volume, and recruiter listings may hide the real employer.

A few things to keep in mind:

6. Skills and tools GenAI job descriptions ask for

Short answer: Across 12 job descriptions we read on 24 October 2026, every one asked for Python and LLM skills, 11 asked for RAG, 8 named LangChain, and many wanted vector databases, evaluation, agents and one major cloud.

We read 12 JDs in full from TCS, Infosys, Capgemini, Tech Mahindra, PwC, Tiger Analytics, Coforge, Wells Fargo, JPMorganChase, TVS Credit, Crisil and a recruiter listing for a client. They range from internships to 8 to 10 years. Here is what they asked for, most common first.

Newer asks in 2026 JDs:

What is rarely asked: FastAPI appeared once (TVS Credit), and Docker or Kubernetes appeared mainly as "desired" (Wells Fargo) or through AWS container services (Infosys). Strong Python, RAG and evaluation skills matter more than a long tool list.

7. Experience: what GenAI listings really ask for

Short answer: Experienced GenAI roles in the JDs we read asked for anywhere from 3 to 8 years up to 8 to 10 years, and the experience range on a job card sometimes understates what the full JD asks.

From the 12 JDs we read on 24 October 2026:

Two lessons. First, read the full JD: Coforge and Tiger Analytics both showed lower ranges on the card than in the JD text. Second, related experience counts. These JDs ask for years of Python, backend, data science or ML work, so a developer, tester or analyst with 3 or more years starts with an asset, not a reset.

Degree asks were broad. Naukri showed "Any Graduate" for Capgemini, Tech Mahindra, PwC, Tiger Analytics and Crisil. Infosys asked for B.Tech/B.E. (PG options included MCA). TVS Credit and the recruiter listing wanted degrees in CS, data science, AI, statistics or related fields.

8. Work modes: office, hybrid and remote generative AI jobs

Short answer: Most GenAI jobs in India are work from office; hybrid is the second option, and remote GenAI jobs were only about 4% of Naukri's "generative ai" results on 24 October 2026.

Naukri's work-mode filter on the all-India "generative ai" page on 24 October 2026 showed:

In Hyderabad, only 26 of 2,258 results were tagged remote. Hybrid roles in the JDs we read included Infosys, Tech Mahindra, Tiger Analytics and PwC (PwC said 2 days a week in office).

If you want remote work, filter by "Remote" and still read the JD, because tags can be wrong. Expect remote roles to want proof that you can work alone: shipped projects, clear write-ups and a public GitHub. Be careful with "work from home AI jobs" that ask for fees; pay-per-task AI-training gigs are real work but not engineering roles.

9. Non-coding generative AI roles (as seen in listings)

Short answer: Most GenAI listings are engineering roles, but we also saw AI product manager, AI search optimisation (AEO/GEO) intern, AI video creator intern and model-risk validation roles; "prompt engineer" pay on AmbitionBox mostly reflects AI-training and annotation work.

If you are a marketer, business analyst, content writer or domain expert, here is what non-coding or low-code GenAI work looked like in listings on 24 October 2026:

About "prompt engineer": AmbitionBox showed a typical range of ₹6 to 6.6 lakh a year for "Prompt Engineer" in India (351 salaries, October 2026). The employers listed there include AI-training and data-annotation firms, which suggests many of these salaries are for training and rating work, not for building LLM apps. We did not see "prompt engineer" as a distinct fresher job category on Naukri. Prompt skills matter in every GenAI role, but on their own they rarely make a full job title.

For non-coders, the practical route is to add GenAI to the job you already do, such as AI content workflows for a marketer or AI feature requirements for a BA, then move toward AI product roles.

10. Generative AI jobs salary snapshot

Short answer: AmbitionBox showed ₹9.2 to 10.1 lakh a year for "Generative AI Engineer" and ₹7.3 to 8.1 lakh for "Gen AI Developer" in India in October 2026; these are typical ranges across all experience levels, not offers.

The figures below are the typical ranges AmbitionBox shows to logged-out users, read on 24 October 2026, with the number of salaries behind each. Our full generative AI jobs salary guide covers city, company and role detail.

How to read this:

11. Generative AI jobs for freshers

Short answer: Fresher GenAI roles exist, but they are a small slice: a Naukri search for "generative ai" filtered to 0 years returned 284 results on 24 October 2026, many of them internships and some clearly senior roles mis-tagged.

Genuine entry listings we read included a Crisil Generative AI Intern role in Pune, a TVS Credit Data Scientist (GenAI) role in Bengaluru for 0 to 2 years, and a recruiter listing for a GenAI engineer at 0 to 2 years with "4-8 Lacs PA" on the card, where internships and projects counted as experience. On LinkedIn, "Generative AI Intern" showed 152 results in India on the same day. Stipends on GenAI internships seen on Naukri in October 2026 ranged from unpaid to ₹25,000 a month.

Freshers should aim for titles such as Generative AI Intern, AI/ML Intern, AI Engineer Intern, Associate Machine Learning Engineer and AI and Python Developer (fresher). Our full guide to generative AI jobs for freshers covers eligibility, a 90-day plan and fresher projects, and our list of generative AI projects for beginners gives you ideas to start.

12. How to get a generative AI job: a step-by-step plan

Short answer: Pick one target role, build two or three proof projects on GitHub, tailor your resume to JD keywords, search with filters on Naukri and LinkedIn, ask for referrals, and prepare for RAG and LLM interview questions.

Step 1: Pick your target role

Choose based on where you start:

Step 2: Build proof, not just certificates

Recruiters want to see working projects. Build two or three of these and put them on GitHub with a clear README, a short demo video and a note on what you would improve:

Step 3: Make your resume match the JD

Use the exact words JDs use: Python, RAG, LangChain, vector database, prompt engineering, evaluation, the cloud you know. Lead each project with the result. Our generative AI resume guide shows sample resumes and bullet points.

Step 4: Search smartly

Step 5: Use referrals

A referral gets your resume read. Message people in the team you want, mention one of your projects and ask one clear question. College alumni are the easiest start.

Step 6: Prepare for interviews

Expect questions on transformers, prompting, RAG design, embeddings, fine-tuning, evaluation and a system-design round on a chatbot or search app. Practise with our generative AI interview questions.

13. How to read a GenAI job listing (and spot red flags)

Short answer: Read the full JD, not the card: check the real experience ask, the actual employer, the tech stack and whether the role builds GenAI or only mentions it.

Use this checklist on every listing:

14. Do you need a certification for a generative AI job?

Short answer: No. Only one of the 12 JDs we read (PwC) mentioned "AI/GenAI certifications preferred", and none required one; a certification helps most when it matches the cloud an employer uses.

Certifications still help you learn a platform in a structured way. Current options include:

Match the certification to your target employers' stack: Tech Mahindra's JD was Azure-heavy, Infosys's was AWS-heavy. A project on that cloud plus the matching certificate is a strong pair.

15. Is generative AI a good career in 2026?

Short answer: Yes for people willing to build real skills: the World Economic Forum lists AI and big data as the fastest-growing skills, and Naukri showed thousands of GenAI-related listings in October 2026, though most target experienced engineers.

The WEF Future of Jobs Report 2025 (January 2025), based on 1,000+ employers, expects jobs equal to 14% of today's employment (170 million) to be created by 2030 and 8% (92 million) to be displaced, a net gain of 78 million. It names AI and big data as the fastest-growing skills and AI and machine learning specialists among the fastest-growing jobs. It also expects, on average, 39% of workers' existing skills to be transformed or outdated over 2025 to 2030.

For you, this means two things. GenAI skills now appear inside many developer, data and testing listings, which widens your options. And the bar is rising: 2026 JDs ask for agents, evaluation and guardrails, and "agentic" appeared in titles at Capgemini, Tech Mahindra, Wells Fargo, Eli Lilly and PepsiCo in October 2026.

16. How Brolly Academy helps

Short answer: Brolly Academy's 3-month Generative AI course in Hyderabad covers the skills GenAI JDs ask for, from Python and LLMs to RAG, LangChain, vector databases, fine-tuning and LLMOps, with capstone projects and placement assistance.

Our Generative AI Training in Hyderabad is a 3-month program in classroom and live online modes, plus a self-paced video recording plan. Here is how it maps to the job market above:

The next batch starts on Monday, 2 November 2026, and you can attend a free 3-day demo before you enrol.

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