Chip leaders tap tech campuses with juicy offers

Chip giants including Nvidia Corp., Intel Corp., and Arm Holdings Plc. are aggressively recruiting at India’s elite engineering schools, chasing top talent critical to supremacy in the age of artificial intelligence (AI).

- Devina Sengupta & Pratishtha Bagai

During this placement season, demand at the younger Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and National Institutes of Technology (NITS) has focused on students with an aptitude in chip design, advanced communications like 5G and 6G, and quantum computing. This surge provides a crucial buffer for the colleges amid a generally weak job market, at a time many Indian corporations are cutting back on campus recruitment.

Mint spoke to Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, as well as the campus placement teams of IIT-Patna, Dharwad, Bhubaneswar, Gandhinagar and NITs in Jamshedpur, Surat and Raipur. The placement executives broadly agreed that interest in semiconductor roles has increased compared to previous years.