Samsung India to hire 1,200 from IIT and other top engineering institutes

Hyderabad: Samsung India is planning to hire over 1,200 engineers from various Indian Institute of Technologies and other top engineering colleges in India this hiring season. The company will also expand its outreach to newer IITs to ensure it hires the best talent.

From December 1, three R&D centres of Samsung in India will visit IIT campuses in Mumbai, Delhi, Kanpur, Guwahati, Kharagpur, Bhubaneswar, Roorkee, Gandhinagar, Patna, Bhubaneswar, Palakkad, Tirupathi, Indore, Mandi and Jodhpur. IIT Bhilai is the new addition to this list.

Apart from the IITs, Samsung will also be hiring from other top engineering colleges such as BITS Pilani, IIITs, NITs, Delhi Technological University, Manipal Institute of Technology, and Indian Institute of Science Bangalore.

Reportedly, Samsung plans to hire students from multiple streams, including Computer Science, Electronics and Communications, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computing, Instrumentation, and Information Technology.

This opportunity will offer bright engineers from top institutes to work on future technologies domains such as Artificial Intelligence, Image Processing, Deep Learning, UI/UX, etc., said an official statement from Samsung.

Bright engineers from these top institutions will work on future technologies and domains such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Image Processing, Middleware Development, Cloud, IoT, Recognition Systems, Data Analysis, On-Device AI, Mobile Communications, Networks, Imaging, Voice, VLSI, and UI/UX.

Sameer Wadhawan, Head, Human Resources, Samsung India said, “Today, Samsung’s India research and development centres are driving both local and global innovations. Therefore, giving our talented engineers the right platform to excel and set new benchmarks. Our endeavour, as a leading technology company, has always been to nurture our talent by providing them with the most suitable exposure. This year, we plan to hire over 1,200 engineers and have already extended 340 PPOs to engineers at IITs and other top institutions.”

Samsung hired 1,000 engineers each in 2017 and 2018.