Indian companies across industries are adding senior AI professionals to their manpower so as to deploy organization-wide AI. The days of just experimentation are over. Such professionals are being hired by platforms ranging from IT and technology to financial services, healthcare and retail.
The remuneration being offered to chief AI officers (AIOS) range between Rs. 2 crore and Rs. 2.5 crore per annum. The heads of AI and ML can command packages of Rs. 1.5 crore. Candidates with four years’ experience can draw packages of Rs.35 to RS. 40 lac per year, especially those with experience of handling LLMs, generative AI and enterprise-scale AI deployment.
The rise in hiring is not just confined to technology firms but is seen in traditional firms looking to embed AI across operations and customer-facing functions.
There are senior appointments at LinkedIn, Yotta, Jindal Steel, SAP Labs, TVS Group. In the IT sector, the roles of AI officers have been created in TCS, LTI-MindTree, and 70 per cent of technology services companies. There are adjacent roles such as AI Ethics Specialists, Policy Analysts, Learning Architects and generative AI engineers.
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