Applied AI

Graduate AI/ML Engineer

₹6–16 LPA
Entry level · 0–1 years · Remote · Gig or permanent · Indicative CTC, India
In demandGrowing fast from a small base. This role did not exist as a graduate hire five years ago, so intakes are smaller than the established tracks — but it is the fastest-growing part of entry-level demand, and competition is lighter because fewer students know it exists.AI-exposedAI is changing what this role does day to day. The work is not disappearing, but what employers screen for is shifting — from producing output to verifying it and owning the decision.
Capability
ML fundamentalsPythonEvaluation
Disposition & behaviour
ScepticismOpenness to experienceJudgement under uncertainty
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GoMeasure Platform runs GoMeasure Campus — a talent network for final-year students and new graduates, where what you can do is measured from real work rather than claimed on a CV.

We’re looking for Graduate AI/ML Engineers to join this network ahead of the placement cycle. Train, fine-tune and deploy models, and evaluate them against something more rigorous than a demo.

You’ll take one qualification test covering ml fundamentals, python, evaluation, build a verified profile, and go to the employers hiring into this track — typically ₹6–16 LPA at entry level.

Role summary

Train, fine-tune and deploy models, and evaluate them against something more rigorous than a demo.

What you will do

In the first six months

  • Train and fine-tune models, and spend far more time on the data than on the model
  • Build the evaluation that tells you whether a change helped, rather than trusting that it looks better
  • Get something into production and discover what that actually costs
  • Read papers and work out which parts apply to your problem and which do not

By twelve to eighteen months

  • Own a model in production and its behaviour as the data shifts underneath it
  • Make the call on whether a problem needs machine learning at all
  • Design evaluation for a system that has no single right answer

Required skills

SkillWhat good looks like at entry level
ML fundamentalsHow models actually learn, what overfitting looks like, and why a validation split matters. Deep-dive rounds probe this hard, and frameworks do not cover for a gap here.
PythonFluent, not just familiar. Screened alongside data structures in most loops.
Data structures & algorithmsStill a gate. The coding round is typically a medium-difficulty problem with an ML twist rather than pure algorithms.
EvaluationDeciding what 'better' means for your system and measuring it honestly. The 2026 version of this question is increasingly 'how would you evaluate a chatbot?'
Production reasoningLatency, cost, monitoring and what happens when the model degrades. Deep rounds ask production scenarios, not only theory.

Disposition & traits

Skills describe what someone can do when they try hardest. Disposition describes what they typically do — and over a first year, that second question predicts as much as the first. For this track the dispositions that matter most are:

  • Scepticism
  • Openness to experience
  • Judgement under uncertainty
How to read these. Higher is not automatically better — a disposition that helps in one role works against another. These are not a pass mark, not trainable in the way a skill is, and never reported on their own.

What the hiring bar looks like

Compiled by GoMeasure from publicly available accounts, October 2026.

Employer typeWhat they screen for
Product companies & startupsA recruiter screen, a technical screen on a project you built, then a long deep round — often two to four hours — covering live coding, ML fundamentals and production scenarios, then a hiring-manager round.
IT servicesThe large services employers now run dedicated AI/ML screening within their premium tracks, rather than allocating AI work after joining.
GCCsA product-style loop with stronger emphasis on fundamentals and system design.

Eligibility — who actually gets to apply

The academic bar can be steep — one 2026 fresher posting required 80% across 10th, 12th and degree with no backlogs ever, not merely none active. What moves the needle more than marks is deployed work: two projects at a public URL a stranger can open, each with a stated problem, a measured result and an honest note on what it does not handle. That is also what a technical screen is built around.

Eligibility is set per drive and your placement cell’s notice is what actually applies on your campus. One trap worth knowing: a 6.0 CGPA is not always 60%. Where a university converts with (CGPA − 0.75) × 10, a 6.0 is 52.5% — below most employers’ floor. Check which formula yours uses before assuming you qualify.

And on the package: CTC is not take-home. A ₹4 LPA offer lands nearer ₹28,000–32,000 a month once provident fund, gratuity and tax come out, and offers with a large variable or joining-bonus component differ more again. Compare offers on fixed monthly pay, not on the headline. On-campus mass recruiters rarely move off a standard package; startups, GCCs and mid-size firms hiring off-campus often have some room.

Who should apply

Graduates whose degree and interests line up with the work above. Eligibility aside, employers in this track screen on demonstrated capability more than on which campus you attended.

This role is probably not for you if you want to work on products rather than systems, or you find evaluation and measurement tedious. Most of this job is establishing whether something actually works.

Evaluation notice

Results are shared with the student and, with consent, with employers hiring into this track. Scores carry the evidence and the assessment date. Practice and assessed sessions are clearly distinguished before either begins.

What you get back

The outcome of qualifying is a report, not a pass mark. Three layers, each scored and reported separately — there is no single number, deliberately, because a composite hides the trade-off an employer actually needs to see.

01 · Capability

What you can do at your best

Role-specific skills and real work, placed on a proficiency level with the evidence attached.

ML fundamentalsPythonEvaluation
02 · Disposition

What you typically do

How you tend to work, and the judgement you show in realistic situations. Not a pass mark, and higher is not automatically better.

ScepticismOpenness to experienceJudgement under uncertainty
03 · Alignment

What you are optimising for

What you want from work, and whether a role supplies it. Read as fit rather than quality.

Fit, not good or bad
Who sees it

Every layer carries its own score, its weighting and the date it was assessed — and you see the same report the employer does. The report is shared with employers hiring into this track, with your consent, and you can withdraw it. Individual employers are named on the drive itself, once that employer is participating.

Retaking the test

One qualification attempt per track, with a retake available after one to two months. The wait is deliberate: a retake a week later measures how well you remember the test, not whether anything changed. The gap is long enough for preparation against your reported gaps to actually show.

Get placed in this track

One qualification test puts you in the talent pool for this role, with a verified profile that employers can act on — instead of a CV that looks like every other CV in the stack.

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