Massive jobs coming! Samsung to hire 1,200 engineers from top Indian institutes

The South Korean electronics giant, Samsung is planning to hire over 1,200 engineers from top Indian institutes for its R&D centres in India. In a statement released on Thursday afternoon, Samsung said that it will expand its outreach to newer IITs to ensure it hires the best talent. The students selected 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.

The R&D centres of Samsung in Bengaluru, Noida and Delhi will start visiting IIT campuses in Delhi, Kanpur, Mumbai, Madras, Guwahati, Kharagpur, BHU, Roorkie, Pallakad, Tirupati, Indore, Gandhinagar, Patna, Bhubaneswar, Mandi and Jodhpur from December 1. IIT Bhilai is the newest edition to this list. The hiring will be done from multiple streams including Computer Science, Electronics and Communications, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computing, Instrumentation and Information Technology to support its efforts to bring innovative solutions that enable people to do more.

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 "Today, Samsung’s India R&D centres are driving both local and global innovations, giving our talented engineers the right platform to excel and set new benchmarks. As a leading technology company, our endeavor has always been to nurture our talent by providing them the most suitable exposure. We are proud of the milestones achieved by our engineers in India and are committed to hiring more talent from the country. This year, we plan to hire over 1,200 engineers and have already extended 340 PPOs to engineers at IITs and other top institutions," said Sameer Wadhawan, Head, Human Resources, Samsung India.

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, IISc Bangalore. The R&D centres in India have a strong culture of patent filing and have filed over 2,900 patents till date.

In 2017, Samsung had said it will hire 2,500 engineers by 2020; it hired 1,000 engineers each in 2017 and 2018 and will be hiring over 1,200 engineers this year.