AI jobs command premium pay as companies fill specialised roles
AI professionals in the country are commanding as much as a 40-80% salary premium compared to traditional IT roles, experts and staffing firms told ET.
Roles such as AI research scientist, AI marketing specialist, chatbot specialists, cybersecurity AI, computer vision engineer, robotics engineer along with AI ethics specialist are high in demand as companies scramble to fill new and specialised roles in AI.
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Offering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB Product ManagementVisitIIT DelhiCertificate Programme in Data Science & Machine LearningVisitIndian School of BusinessProfessional Certificate in Product ManagementVisitOther in-demand roles include prompt engineer, AI solutions architect, AI product manager, ML engineer, data scientist, AI governance policy analyst and chief AI officer (CAIO), which is a CXO role. Teamlease Digital, the technology staffing services firm estimates that overall demand for generative AI roles in India has soared ninefold
since January. Data from four leading job portals show that there are more than 45,000 AI-related job openings in
India currently, according to Quess IT Staffing. Experts say businesses are paying hefty salaries for AI talent recognising the need to rapidly adopt AI in their daily operations.
“We talk about AI replacing jobs, but actually in our tech industry, we have a talent gap, a capacity gap,” said Paul Mariott, president – Asia Pacific and Japan, SAP. “Right now, the gap is not closing fast
