Samsung to hire 1000 engineers from these institutes in India

If you are studying in any of the top-tier engineering colleges in India, you are in luck. South Korean tech giant Samsung yesterday announced that it would be hiring 1000 engineers from top institutes for its three research and development (R&D) facilities in India. The company would hire employees from IITs, NITs, Delhi College of Engineering, BITS Pilani, Manipal Institute of Technology and IIITs among others.

"Samsung is extremely bullish on R&D in India. We have been here for over 22 years. The three R&D centers in India work on several cutting edge technologies," said Dipesh Shah, Samsung global senior vice-president and managing director Samsung R&D Institute India, Bengaluru.

"We will be hiring around 1,000 engineers from top engineering colleges this year across the three R&D centers in India, of which over 300 will be from IITs. A majority of them will hired for domains such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, signal processing, computer vision, mobile security and biometrics among others. There is a large need for talent," he added further.

Most of the people Samsung will hire will be working in new age domains such as artificial intelligence, internet of things (IoT), machine learning, biometrics, natural language processing, augmented reality and networks including 5G, stated the company.

Other than the traditional domain of computer science, students would be picked from streams like electrical engineering, mathematics and computing, applied mechanics, and statistics, and many more. For comparison, last year Samsung employed 800 engineers for its R&D facilities, out of which 300 were from IITs and this year too it would be hiring a similar number from IITs.

Samsung has a total of 32 R&D centers across the world and out of which three are located in India at Bengaluru, Noida and Delhi. The Indian R&D centers contribute to global products as well as develop India specific innovations for the local market here.

It is great that the company is hiring local talents instead of taking people from outside. If you look at the bigger picture, this employment will make a positive impact on India's economy as well. However, it is unclear when exactly Samsung will start the hiring process.

Written with IANS inputs