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AI job market · Bengaluru · read 4 November 2026

AI engineer jobs in Bengaluru: who is hiring, for what skills

Short answer: on 4 November 2026 we found 20 current AI and machine-learning engineering postings in Bengaluru from 10 employers on their own job boards: Composio, Databricks, Freshworks, GitLab, HackerRank, InMobi, Rubrik, Sarvam AI, Zimperium, Zscaler. The skills they ask for most are below, each with the module that teaches it.

Skills Bengaluru AI-engineering postings ask for

SkillPostingsTaught in
AI agents, MCP and orchestration18 of 20Module 10: Agents & MCP
MLOps, CI/CD and monitoring17 of 20Module 12: Production AI & LLMOps
Communication and product sense16 of 20Module 13: Capstone & Career Launch
REST APIs and backend services15 of 20Module 1: AI & Computing Foundations
LLM APIs and prompt engineering14 of 20Module 6: LLM Application Engineering
Cloud and containers (AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes)14 of 20Module 12: Production AI & LLMOps
Evaluation and guardrails12 of 20Module 9: Evals, Guardrails & AI Security
System design12 of 20Module 7: AI-Native Engineering with Coding Agents
Python11 of 20Module 2: Python for AI
Machine learning fundamentals11 of 20Module 4: Data, SQL & Machine Learning in Practice
Git and code review8 of 20Module 1: AI & Computing Foundations
Statistics and experimentation8 of 20Module 3: Mathematics & Statistics for AI
SQL and databases7 of 20Module 4: Data, SQL & Machine Learning in Practice
RAG and vector search7 of 20Module 8: RAG Engineering
Deep learning (PyTorch, TensorFlow)7 of 20Module 5: Deep Learning & Transformers from Scratch
Model serving and inference7 of 20Module 11: Fine-Tuning, Open Models & Inference
Coding agents and AI-assisted development5 of 20Module 7: AI-Native Engineering with Coding Agents
Fine-tuning and model optimisation5 of 20Module 11: Fine-Tuning, Open Models & Inference
Structured outputs and function calling3 of 20Module 6: LLM Application Engineering
Transformers and LLM internals2 of 20Module 5: Deep Learning & Transformers from Scratch

The 20 postings we read

EmployerRoleLocationPostedModules
ComposioMember Technical Staff - Applied AI Engineer (US Timing)Bangalore7 September 20261, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13
DatabricksEvergreen - AI Engineer, AI FDEBengaluru, India1 November 20263, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13
DatabricksSr Software Engineer - Agentic Applications (Full Stack)Bengaluru, India20 August 20261, 2, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13
DatabricksSr. Software Engineer- Databricks AIBengaluru, India2 November 20261, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13
DatabricksStaff Software Engineer- Databricks AIBengaluru, India2 November 20261, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13
FreshworksStaff Engineer - Machine LearningBengaluru, India15 October 20261, 2, 4, 5, 7, 11, 12, 13
GitLabStaff Software Engineer - NLPBangalore, India24 September 20261, 4, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13
HackerRankAI Researcher InternOnsite in Bangalore28 October 20263, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11
InMobiApplied Scientist IIIBangalore15 September 20262, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12
RubrikSenior AI API Platform EngineerBangalore, India21 October 20261, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13
RubrikSenior AI Evals EngineerBangalore15 October 20261, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
RubrikSenior Applied AI EngineerBangalore21 October 20261, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13
RubrikSenior Software Engineer - Enterprise AIBangalore13 October 20261, 2, 4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13
RubrikSr AI Engineer, Agentic SystemsBengaluru, India28 October 20261, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12
Sarvam AIAgent EngineerBengaluru20 August 20261, 2, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12
Sarvam AIML Engineer (Training Infra), Foundational ModelsBengaluru7 October 20261, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13
ZimperiumLead DevOps Engineer (AI & GPU)Bangalore, India13 October 20261, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
ZscalerPrincipal Machine Learning EngineerBangalore, IND2 November 20262, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13
ZscalerPrincipal Software Development Engineer - Agentic SystemsBangalore, IND17 September 20261, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
ZscalerSr. Software Development Engineer - Java/ Agentic AI/ Big DataBangalore, IND3 November 20264, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13

Companies named are employers whose public job postings we read on 4 November 2026. They are not partners, sponsors or recruiters of Synaptova. Postings close and change: open the link to check. No job, placement or salary is guaranteed.

How we counted

We read each employer's public job board, kept engineering roles in Bengaluru with AI, ML, LLM or agent work, first published within 90 days, and counted a skill when the posting text names it. It is a small dated sample, not a market survey. All cities: AI engineer jobs in India. The full mapping to the curriculum is in the free 2026 AI Engineer Syllabus & Resource Kit.