The India division of South Korean technology group Samsung Electronics on Wednesday announced plans to hire up to 1,000 engineers from top technical colleges in the country for its research and development (R&D) facilities. me. Engineers will be hired next year and will be employed in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), deep learning, internet of things (IoT), cloud, Big Data, etc
Engineers will be employed at Samsung’s R&D institutes in Bengaluru, Delhi and Noida, as well as at its semiconductor research facility in Bengaluru. Engineers to be recruited include disciplines such as computer science, information technology (IT) and electronic engineering, among others.
About 200 engineers will be recruited from various locations of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), the company said in a statement. It also added that “more than 400” pre-arrangement offers have been issued to “students of IITs and other leading institutions”.
Samsung’s recruitment announcement comes at a time when newly graduated engineers are in a precarious period. In April of this year, the Mint reported that increasing turnover among IT companies had led to an increase in the average salary for engineering graduates. IT companies, like other technology companies, have reported attrition as an expense entry on their balance sheets during the past two quarters, as engineers and contractors Developers around the country also look for gigs adjacent to their main job that offer high one-time payments. .
However, amid the salary increase, a corresponding Mint report in September also claimed that delays of more than six months, after being offered an offer, had caused new graduates to seek opportunities. alternative associations from large domestic technology companies.
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