Masters, PhDs in focus at IITs as recruiters chase AI talent
Mint Mumbai|December 02, 2024
IITs will see AI and HFT firms, regular consultants and manufacturing firms recruit students
Devina Sengupta & Pratishtha Bagai
Masters, PhDs in focus at IITs as recruiters chase AI talent

The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies is altering the kind of job offers being made by companies—and the educational qualifications required of students—at India's top technology colleges.

As the older IITs—Bombay, Kharagpur, Kanpur, Madras, Delhi, Roorkee—began placement season on Sunday, December 1, the fat salaries on offer were not only for BTech and computer science graduates, but equally for Masters and PhD profiles in chemistry, physics, and mathematics who can work on complex modeling programs.

These problem solvers will then be responsible for working on artificial intelligence (AI) programs and algorithms. Modeling is a method in which companies use different permutation combinations to figure out the result of a particular scenario.

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