Recruitment for IT Industry

Specialist and leadership hiring for product companies, IT services, GCCs and engineering R&D. We identify talent by technical depth, real-world ownership and proven delivery.

Technical Role Calibration

Align on the stack, architecture layer and must-have skills.

Targeted Talent Mapping

Reach specialists across product, GCC, services and R&D teams.

Evidence-Based Shortlists

Meet candidates assessed for hands-on work and delivery.

Why is tech hiring in India harder than the headcount suggests?

India’s technology industry earned USD 315 billion in FY26 and employs close to 60 lakh people directly. With a pool that large, finding the right engineer should be easy. It rarely is. Headcount grew just 2.3% in FY26, one of the slowest rates in years, while demand keeps climbing for engineers who have actually shipped AI agents, worked deep in Android platform layers or owned a product’s architecture. Those people are few, and most of them are not looking.

TRUSTKLUB’s Technology & Digital practice hires specialists and mid-to-senior leaders for software product companies, IT services firms, Global Capability Centres (GCCs) and engineering R&D centres. We start every search with the technology stack, not the job title. Two roles both called “Android Engineer” can need completely different layers, tools and debugging depth. So we calibrate each one with your hiring manager before we approach a single candidate.

India’s tech industry in numbers

Key signals shaping TECH talent demand in India.

USD 315 bn

India’s tech industry revenue in FY26, up 6.1%

59.5 lakh

Direct tech workforce at the end of FY26, after 1.35 lakh net additions

2,117 GCCs

Running 3,728 units in India and employing over 2.36 million professionals

40%

Expected rise in GCC leadership roles by the end of 2026

Which parts of the tech industry do we hire for?

Software Product Companies

These are firms that build and sell their own software, from SaaS platforms to enterprise and consumer products. Hiring here centres on engineers and leaders who have owned a product through its lifecycle and made architecture calls themselves. The segment includes global product firms with engineering teams in India and Indian product companies that have moved past their early growth stage.

IT Services & Technology Consulting

IT services companies deliver application development, enterprise applications, cloud migration, managed services and digital transformation for clients across the world. Roles here mix delivery ownership with technical depth. And commercial roles such as solution sales and business development matter as much as engineering, which is why we hire for both.

Global Capability Centres (GCCs)

GCCs are India-based centres that multinational companies own and run for their technology, product, analytics and operations work. Over the past few years, GCC mandates have moved well past support work into product engineering, AI and platform ownership. GCC hiring managers often turn down strong services-company candidates when ownership depth or product exposure is not visible, so we screen for exactly that.

Engineering R&D Centres

Engineering R&D centres design device software, embedded systems, automotive software and connectivity for handsets, wearables, vehicles and semiconductor-adjacent products. The talent here sits in a small set of OEM R&D centres, chipset-adjacent teams and engineering services firms. That is why target-company mapping works far better than portal search for these roles.

What does TRUSTKLUB bring to technology hiring?

Role calibration before sourcing

We begin every technical search with your hiring manager, separating must-have skills from trainable ones and pinning down the architecture layer, ownership and deal-breakers. For niche roles, this one conversation saves more time than any amount of sourcing volume.

Screening on evidence, not keywords

We check what a candidate has actually built, including the layer, the stack, the tools, the debugging depth and the outcomes. A title match or a CV full of the right keywords does not get anyone onto our shortlist.

Android, AOSP and embedded systems

We hire across framework, HAL, kernel, connectivity, multimedia and power and performance roles. A generic Android app developer is not interchangeable with an AOSP connectivity engineer, and we search with that difference in mind.

AI and GenAI engineering

Almost every CV mentions LLMs today. We look for engineers who have built RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, evaluation and guardrails, and taken them into production.

Talent maps across India’s tech hubs

We build each search universe from your direct competitors plus adjacent product, GCC, R&D and engineering services teams. Our maps track where each skill pool clusters across Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai and NCR, with selected APAC and Middle East reach.

Closure and joining support

Notice periods and competing offers decide a lot of tech closures. We check availability, counter-offer risk and joining probability early, and stay in touch with the candidate until the first day.

Have a tech role that job portals keep getting wrong?

Share the role with our Technology & Digital practice. We will start with a calibration call with your hiring manager and come back with a mapped target-company universe for your search.

Which roles do we hire for?

We hire specialised technology professionals and leaders across AI/ML engineering, cloud AI architecture, cybersecurity, data analytics, ERP, and enterprise applications. Our expertise also extends to engineering leadership, technology business development, and digital solutions sales.

AI/ML Engineer – Agent Developer

Engineers, leads and architects who design and ship agentic AI systems, with hands-on work in RAG, LLM orchestration and tool integration. We prioritise production experience over course-led or certification-led exposure.

Cloud AI Architect

Architects who combine cloud architecture depth with GenAI and enterprise integration experience. They decide how AI workloads run securely and reliably across the organisation.

Technology Business Development

Professionals who handle market intelligence, opportunity scouting, partnerships and due diligence for technology and electronics businesses. The role sits close to corporate strategy and needs commercial and technical fluency in equal measure.

Sales Manager / BDM – Digital Solutions

Enterprise sellers for software, ECM, automation and digital solutions who can win new logos and hold conversations with CXOs. We look for people who have closed solution deals over long enterprise sales cycles.

Senior Engineering / Technical Leadership

Engineering managers, architects and principal engineers for product companies and GCCs. Our clients want leaders who still carry hands-on architecture credibility with their teams.

Data / Analytics Leadership

Leads and managers who combine client-facing analytics work with ownership of delivery and solutions. These roles are in steady demand in GCCs and analytics firms, especially in Chennai and Bengaluru.

ERP / Enterprise Applications Lead

Functional and technical leads on SAP, Oracle and other enterprise platforms who have owned transformation programmes. We assess both the platform depth and the business process understanding behind it.

Cybersecurity / Infrastructure Specialist

Senior individual contributors and leads in security architecture, security operations, IAM, network and infrastructure engineering. The talent universe for these roles is small, so the search depends on direct approach.

Frequently Asked Questions

We start with a role calibration session with your hiring manager. It covers mandatory versus trainable skills, architecture layer, ownership, target backgrounds, location and deal-breakers. For niche technology roles, getting this right matters more than how many profiles we source.

We screen technology candidates for evidence of work performed: the layer they worked on, the stack, their ownership, tools, debugging depth and outcomes. Titles and keywords alone can be misleading, especially in Android, embedded and AI roles.

We build a target-company universe for every technology search. It includes your direct competitors and adjacent product companies, GCCs, R&D centres, engineering services firms and other domain-relevant organisations.

Yes, as long as the role is calibrated and your interview process moves quickly. We also flag notice-period and competing-offer risks early, so they don’t surprise you at the offer stage.

We need a clear outcome for the role, must-have and preferred skills, the reporting line and team context, the location and work model, the compensation range and your interview process. If you have rejected profiles before, the reasons help us more than almost anything else.

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