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AI/ML recruitment · India
AI/ML recruitment for teams that need models in production, not in notebooks.
Hire ML engineers, MLOps, data scientists and GenAI specialists across India. We separate people who have shipped and maintained models in production from people who have only completed courses.
What we do
AI and ML roles we hire
ML engineers
Engineers who build, deploy and maintain models — feature pipelines, training, serving and monitoring.
GenAI & LLM engineers
RAG systems, fine-tuning, evaluation, agents and LLM application engineering.
MLOps & ML platform
Model deployment, CI/CD for ML, feature stores, observability and GPU infrastructure.
Data scientists
Applied statistics, experimentation, forecasting and modelling tied to business outcomes.
Computer vision & NLP
Detection, segmentation, OCR, speech and language specialists for applied products.
AI leadership
Heads of AI/ML, principal scientists and AI product leaders who can build and run a team.
Why AI/ML hiring is so hard to get right
Demand for AI and ML talent in India has exploded, and so has the number of résumés that list 'machine learning'. The gap between someone who has completed online courses and someone who has kept a model working in production — with real data drift, latency limits and on-call responsibility — is enormous, but it's invisible on a CV.
The experienced people are also the most sought after. They're usually employed, often fielding offers from global capability centres and well-funded startups, and they choose roles based on the problem, the data, the team and the compute — not just the salary.
How we assess AI and ML candidates
We screen for evidence of production work: what the model did, what data it used, how it was deployed and monitored, what went wrong and how they fixed it. We look at the engineering around the model — pipelines, testing, cost and latency — because that's where most AI projects fail. For GenAI roles we probe retrieval, evaluation and guardrails, not just prompt writing.
We also qualify the practical side early: CTC expectations (AI salaries move quickly — see our salary benchmarks), notice period, location and remote preferences, and what kind of problems the candidate wants next. That lets us pitch your role honestly and close candidates who will stay.
Hiring your first AI team vs scaling an existing one
If you're hiring your first ML engineer, the biggest risk is hiring a researcher when you need a builder, or the other way round. We help you define the first roles around the problems you want solved and the data you actually have. If you're scaling a team, we build repeatable pipelines for each level and keep the quality bar consistent across interviewers.
We hire across India — Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, NCR, Mumbai, Chennai and Ahmedabad — and for remote-first teams.
How it works
From brief to joining, in five steps
Brief call (20 minutes)
We agree the role, must-haves, salary band, notice-period tolerance and the interview loop — before a single CV moves.
Market map
We tell you honestly how many people fit, where they are and what they'll cost, so expectations are set on day one.
Screened shortlist
You get a small set of interviewed, pre-qualified candidates with notes on skills, motivation, CTC and notice — not a pile of résumés.
Interviews & feedback
We schedule, chase feedback within 24 hours and keep candidates warm, so good people don't drift to another offer.
Offer, notice & joining
We negotiate the offer, manage counter-offers and stay in touch through the notice period until the person actually joins.
Why ScoutforU
A specialist partner, not a CV-forwarding agency
- Screening for production experience, not course certificates
- Recruiters who understand ML, MLOps and GenAI vocabulary
- Passive-candidate outreach to people not on job portals
- Honest market and salary guidance before you start
- Hiring across India and for remote-first teams
- Pay only when your hire joins
Skills we hire for
Based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Mon–Sat, 10:00–19:00 IST.
FAQs
Common questions
How do you tell a strong ML engineer from a weak one?
Do you hire GenAI and LLM engineers?
What do AI/ML engineers cost in India?
Can you hire for remote AI teams?
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Talk to a recruiter
Building an AI team?
Tell us the problem you're solving. We'll help you define the right first roles and find people who have done it before.