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Job boards in India
11Where most Indian tech roles are posted first.

LinkedIn Jobs
linkedin.com
The most volume. Filter "Past 24 hours" and apply early.
IndiaRemote
Naukri
naukri.com
India's biggest board. Recruiters search profiles here, so keep yours fresh.
India
Instahyre
instahyre.com
Companies reach out to you. Best with 2+ years of experience.
India
Cutshort
cutshort.io
Tech-only board with AI matching, heavy on startups.
IndiaStartups
Hirist
hirist.tech
Developer-focused IT jobs board.
India
foundit
foundit.in
Formerly Monster India. Large volume across companies.
India
Indeed India
in.indeed.com
Aggregates postings from company sites and boards.
India
Glassdoor India
glassdoor.co.in
Jobs plus reviews and real interview questions per company.
IndiaSalary
Peerlist Jobs
peerlist.io
Profile-first network for builders. Your projects do the talking.
IndiaStartups
Levels.fyi Jobs
levels.fyi
Roles with pay ranges next to them.
IndiaSalary
Hasjob
hasjob.co
Hasgeek's community job board. Smaller, posted by teams directly.
India
Startup jobs
9Smaller teams, faster loops, founders read applications.

Wellfound
wellfound.com
Salary and equity shown up front. Applications go to the team.
StartupsRemoteIndia
YC Work at a Startup
workatastartup.com
One profile, every YC startup. Founders message you.
StartupsRemote
YC Jobs
ycombinator.com
Curated roles at YC companies, with remote filters.
StartupsRemote
YC companies in India
ycombinator.com
Every YC company in India. Find the founders, then DM them.
StartupsIndia
HN: Who is hiring?
news.ycombinator.com
Monthly thread on the first weekday. Founders post directly.
StartupsRemote
HNHIRING
hnhiring.com
Searchable archive of every Who is hiring post.
StartupsRemote
TopStartups
topstartups.io
Funded startups (YC, Sequoia, a16z, Accel) with open roles.
Startups
startup.jobs
startup.jobs
Large aggregator of startup roles worldwide.
StartupsRemote
Welcome to the Jungle
welcometothejungle.com
Curated startup jobs. Otta merged into it.
StartupsRemote
VC portfolio job boards
9One search across hundreds of funded startups. Underused.

Peak XV
careers.peakxv.com
Jobs across Peak XV companies like Razorpay, CRED and Groww.
IndiaStartups
Accel
jobs.accel.com
Accel portfolio, including Freshworks, Swiggy and BrowserStack.
IndiaStartups
Lightspeed
jobs.lsvp.com
Lightspeed portfolio, global and India.
IndiaStartups
a16z
jobs.a16z.com
Andreessen Horowitz portfolio, strong on AI and infra.
StartupsAI
Sequoia
jobs.sequoiacap.com
Sequoia's global portfolio.
StartupsAI
General Catalyst
jobs.generalcatalyst.com
General Catalyst portfolio companies.
Startups
Kleiner Perkins
jobs.kleinerperkins.com
Kleiner Perkins portfolio companies.
Startups
Bessemer
jobs.bvp.com
Bessemer portfolio, lots of B2B SaaS.
Startups
Index Ventures
indexventures.com
Thousands of roles across the Index portfolio.
StartupsRemote
AI and LLM job boards
4Boards that only list AI, agent and LLM roles.

Inference Jobs
inferencejobs.com
Roles at AI companies. Filter by India and by FDE.
AIFDEIndia
Agentic Engineering Jobs
agentic-engineering-jobs.com
Only roles building agents, RAG and LLM apps.
AIRemote
Peerlist: LLM roles
peerlist.io
Peerlist jobs filtered to LLM skills.
AIIndia
HNHIRING: AI engineer
hnhiring.com
This month's Who is hiring, searched for AI engineer.
AIStartupsRemote
Forward deployed engineer
9Companies known for FDE roles. Also search Applied AI Engineer and AI Solutions Engineer.

Palantir
palantir.com
Where the forward deployed engineer title started.
FDE
OpenAI
openai.com
Has a forward deployed engineering team. Filter by location.
FDEAI
Anthropic
anthropic.com
Applied AI and customer-facing engineering roles.
FDEAI
Scale AI
scale.com
Forward deployed roles on GenAI projects.
FDEAI
Salesforce
salesforce.com
Hiring FDEs for Agentforce. Large India presence.
FDEAIIndia
Google Careers
google.com
Search "forward deployed" for Google Cloud GenAI roles in Bengaluru.
FDEAIIndia
Sierra
sierra.ai
AI customer-service agents built with enterprises. Customer-facing engineering.
FDEAI
Decagon
decagon.ai
AI support agents. Engineering that sits close to customers.
FDEAI
Inference Jobs: FDE in India
inferencejobs.com
Open FDE roles tagged to India.
FDEAIIndia
AI and product companies hiring in India
22Go straight to the careers page. Filter by Bengaluru or India.

Sarvam AI
sarvam.ai
Bengaluru lab building Indian-language LLMs and voice models.
AIIndia
Google DeepMind
deepmind.google
Research and applied roles. Filter for Bengaluru.
AIIndia
Microsoft IDC
microsoft.com
Microsoft's India Development Center: Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Noida.
AIIndia
Perplexity
perplexity.ai
AI answer engine. Small teams, high bar.
AI
Databricks
databricks.com
Data and AI platform with a Bengaluru engineering team.
AIIndia
Glean
glean.com
Enterprise AI search and agents. Check for Bengaluru roles.
AI
Atlan
atlan.com
Data and AI governance platform, founded in India.
AIIndiaStartups
Composio
jobs.ashbyhq.com
Tools and integrations layer for AI agents.
AIStartups
Lossfunk
lossfunk.com
Paras Chopra's AI research lab.
AIIndia
Uniphore
uniphore.com
Enterprise conversational and agentic AI, founded in Chennai.
AIIndia
Gupshup
gupshup.ai
Conversational messaging and AI agents for businesses.
AIIndia
Observe.AI
observe.ai
AI for contact centers.
AI
Ema
ema.ai
Agentic AI employees for enterprises.
AIStartups
Lyzr
careers.lyzr.ai
Enterprise agent framework and platform.
AIStartups
Sprinklr
sprinklr.com
Customer-experience platform with large India engineering teams.
AIIndia
Razorpay
razorpay.com
Payments. Strong engineering culture in Bengaluru.
India
CRED
careers.cred.club
Consumer fintech known for product and design craft.
India
Zerodha
careers.zerodha.com
Small, FOSS-friendly tech team behind the stockbroker.
India
Postman
postman.com
API platform founded in Bengaluru.
IndiaAI
BrowserStack
browserstack.com
Testing infrastructure, founded in Mumbai.
India
Freshworks
freshworks.com
SaaS founded in Chennai, building AI agents (Freddy).
IndiaAI
Rippling
rippling.com
HR and IT platform with a Bengaluru engineering office.
India
Remote, India-friendly
12Remote boards and platforms that place engineers from India.

Uplers
uplers.com
Matches engineers in India with remote roles at global companies.
RemoteIndia
Turing
turing.com
Remote roles at US companies after a vetting test.
Remote
Arc
arc.dev
Vetted remote and freelance developer roles.
Remote
Crossover
crossover.com
Full-time remote roles at fixed rates. Tough skills tests.
Remote
RemoteStack
remotestack.in
Remote roles that link straight to the company's own ATS.
RemoteIndia
Himalayas
himalayas.app
Remote board with filters for time zone and country.
Remote
We Work Remotely
weworkremotely.com
One of the oldest remote boards.
Remote
Remote OK
remoteok.com
High-volume remote board with salary filters.
Remote
Remotive
remotive.com
Hand-checked remote tech roles.
Remote
Remote Rocketship
remoterocketship.com
Remote roles pulled from company sites, many not on LinkedIn.
Remote
Working Nomads
workingnomads.com
Curated remote jobs by category.
Remote
JustRemote
justremote.co
Remote jobs, including fully location-independent ones.
Remote
People to follow on X
21Founders, builders and educators worth following and learning from.

Aravind Srinivas
@AravSrinivas
Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity.
AI
Paras Chopra
@paraschopra
Founder of Wingify; runs the Lossfunk AI lab.
AIIndia
Harkirat Singh
@kirat_tw
Runs 100xDevs, a large Indian developer community.
India
Varun Mayya
@VarunMayya
Founder building with AI from Bengaluru.
AIIndia
Deedy Das
@deedydas
Investor at Menlo Ventures; posts on AI and India tech.
AIIndia
Kailash Nadh
@nadh
CTO of Zerodha and a loud voice for FOSS.
India
Nithin Kamath
@Nithin0dha
Founder and CEO of Zerodha.
India
Kunal Shah
@kunalb11
Founder of CRED.
India
Tanay Pratap
@tanaypratap
Mentor and educator for Indian developers.
India
Arpit Bhayani
@arpit_bhayani
Engineering educator; systems deep dives.
IndiaPrep
Gaurav Sen
@gkcs_
System design educator, InterviewReady.
IndiaPrep
Striver
@striver_79
DSA prep at takeUforward.
IndiaPrep
Kunal Kushwaha
@kunalstwt
Open source and DevRel community builder.
India
swyx
@swyx
Popularized "AI engineer"; runs Latent Space.
AI
Hamel Husain
@HamelHusain
Teaches LLM evals. Read him before your next AI interview.
AI
Eugene Yan
@eugeneyan
Writes on LLM evals and production ML.
AI
Jason Liu
@jxnlco
Creator of Instructor; RAG and AI consulting.
AI
Simon Willison
@simonw
Daily, hands-on notes on LLM tools.
AI
Gergely Orosz
@GergelyOrosz
The Pragmatic Engineer; tech job-market data.
Salary
Garry Tan
@garrytan
President and CEO of Y Combinator.
Startups
Pieter Levels
@levelsio
Proof that building in public gets you noticed.
Startups
Accounts to follow on X
17Companies, funds and communities that post roles and events.

Sarvam AI
@SarvamAI
Indian LLM lab. Launches and research.
AIIndia
Y Combinator
@ycombinator
Batch launches: new startups that will be hiring soon.
Startups
Peak XV Partners
@peakxvpartners
Portfolio news from one of India’s biggest funds.
IndiaStartups
a16z
@a16z
Andreessen Horowitz.
StartupsAI
Sequoia
@sequoia
Sequoia Capital.
StartupsAI
Hugging Face
@huggingface
Open models and the community around them.
AI
Latent Space
@latentspacepod
The AI engineer podcast.
AI
Hasgeek
@hasgeek
Bengaluru tech conferences and meetups.
IndiaEvents
FOSS United
@fossunited
Open source events across India.
IndiaEvents
Devfolio
@devfolio
Hackathon announcements.
IndiaEvents
AI Tinkerers
@aitinkerers
Builder meetups, including Bengaluru.
AIEvents
lablab.ai
@lablabai
Online AI hackathons.
AIEvents
Real Dev Squad
@realdevsquad
Indian dev community that ships real projects.
India
Wellfound
@wellfound
Startup job board.
Startups
Peerlist
@peerlist
Builder profiles and jobs.
India
Cutshort
@cutshort
Tech jobs in India.
India
MLOps Community
@mlopscommunity
ML and LLMs in production.
AIEvents
Communities and events
15Where referrals actually come from. Show up, ship, talk to people.

AI Tinkerers Bengaluru
bangalore.aitinkerers.org
Builders-only AI meetups. Bring a demo, not slides.
AIIndiaEvents
Luma: Bengaluru
luma.com
Calendar of tech and AI events in the city.
IndiaEvents
Hasgeek
hasgeek.com
Rootconf, The Fifth Elephant and other Bengaluru conferences.
IndiaEvents
The Fifth Elephant
hasgeek.com
Hasgeek's data and AI conference.
IndiaAIEvents
GDG Bangalore
gdg.community.dev
Google Developer Group meetups and DevFest.
IndiaEvents
PyCon India
in.pycon.org
Annual Python conference. Great for meeting AI teams.
IndiaEvents
FOSS United
fossunited.org
IndiaFOSS and open source city meetups.
IndiaEvents
Devfolio
devfolio.co
Hackathons across India, from weekend events to ETHIndia.
IndiaEvents
lablab.ai
lablab.ai
Online AI hackathons, often run with model labs.
AIRemoteEvents
Real Dev Squad
realdevsquad.com
Contribute to real products with mentors. Good for juniors.
India
MLOps Community
mlops.community
Slack and meetups on running ML and LLMs in production.
AIRemote
Hugging Face Discord
huggingface.co
Open-model builders. Help people and you get noticed.
AIRemote
Latent Space
latent.space
AI engineering newsletter and podcast with an active Discord.
AIRemote
r/developersIndia
reddit.com
Huge Indian dev subreddit with hiring and salary threads.
IndiaSalary
Blind
teamblind.com
Anonymous. The easiest place to ask for referrals and check pay.
ReferralsSalary
Apps and prep
12Track applications, check pay, prepare for interviews.

Simplify
simplify.jobs
Autofills applications and tracks every one.

Teal
tealhq.com
Job tracker plus resume tailoring per role.

Huntr
huntr.co
Kanban board for your applications.

Jobright
jobright.ai
AI job matching that surfaces new roles daily.
AI
Levels.fyi
levels.fyi
Real compensation by company and level. Use it to negotiate.
Salary
AmbitionBox
ambitionbox.com
Indian salaries, reviews and interview experiences.
IndiaSalary
interviewing.io
interviewing.io
Anonymous mock interviews with senior engineers.
Prep
Aced (formerly Exponent)
aced.io
Mock interviews and courses for SWE, ML and PM.
Prep
NeetCode
neetcode.io
Structured DSA practice with video solutions.
Prep
Grind 75
techinterviewhandbook.org
A study plan sized to the weeks you have.
Prep
Hello Interview
hellointerview.com
System design prep from ex-FAANG interviewers.
Prep
ByteByteGo
bytebytego.com
System design explained visually.
Prep
Tips
What actually gets replies
- 01
Search the ATS, not just LinkedIn
Most startups post on Ashby, Greenhouse or Lever before anywhere else. Use the link builder above: it searches those sites directly for your role and city.
- 02
Use VC portfolio boards
One search on Peak XV or Accel covers hundreds of funded companies. Few candidates know these exist, so competition is lower.
- 03
Apply in the first 48 hours
Set alerts for your exact title and city. Early applications get read; week-old ones sit behind hundreds of others.
- 04
A referral beats a cold apply
Ask an engineer at the company, not HR. Send the exact job link and three lines on why you fit, so forwarding it takes them ten seconds.
- 05
DM the hiring manager
Find who posted the role or leads the team. Keep it to four lines and link proof: a shipped project with a real number beats any adjective.
- 06
Build in public
A small tool with real users or eval results gives interviewers something concrete to ask about. Post what you learned while building it.
- 07
Mirror the job description
Rewrite the top third of your resume for each role using the posting's own words. ATS filters and tired recruiters both scan for them.
- 08
Track everything, follow up once
Log every application. If you hear nothing in 5 to 7 days, send one short follow-up, then move on.
- 09
FDE roles hide under other titles
Also search Applied AI Engineer, AI Solutions Engineer, Customer Engineer and Agent Engineer. In India much of this work is posted under those names.
- 10
Go where builders are
Two meetups a month. Talk to the speakers, show your demo, ask what their team is struggling with. Most referrals start this way.
- 11
Know your number before the call
Check Levels.fyi and AmbitionBox for the company and level. Give a range anchored on data, not on your current salary.
- 12
Make your profiles findable
Same name, photo and one-line pitch on LinkedIn, X, GitHub and Peerlist. Recruiters search all four.
Templates
Messages to send
Cold DM to a hiring manager
Hi {name}, saw you're hiring a {role} at {company}. I'm a {your role} with {X} years building {relevant thing}. Recently I built {project}: {one real number}. Here it is: {link}. Would you be open to a 15-minute chat, or could you point me to the right person?
Asking for a referral
Hi {name}, I'm applying for {role} at {company}: {job link}. Quick fit check: {two lines on why you match}. Resume: {link}. Would you be comfortable referring me? Happy to send anything that makes it easier.