The 2026 AI Career Roadmap for Indian engineering students.
41 pages. Salary truth across 14 companies, the 4-layer skill stack, a 9-month plan, 5 projects that get clicks, and honest reviews of every resource we recommend. Free, no spam, evidence-based.
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The 2026 hiring landscape, with sources
Verified 2026 AI hiring stories from 14 companies (TCS Prime, Infosys Power Programmer, Wipro CoE, HCLTech's ₹18-22 LPA elite tier, plus 10 more). Every claim sourced.
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A 9-month roadmap at 10 hours a week
Month-by-month plan covering Python and math, ML literacy, deep learning, LLMs and RAG, deployment. The free curriculum we'd recommend if you walked into our office and asked.
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Five projects that change a recruiter’s mind
Concrete builds with 4-week scopes, the tools to use, and the resume-line patterns that actually get clicked. From RAG bots to fine-tuned models.
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Resources, honestly reviewed
What's worth your time and what isn't, in free vs paid. The two paid options FACE Prep recommends, plus the categories of paid programs we explicitly don't.
From FACE Prep, the brand that has impacted 7 million students across 2,000+ colleges over 18 years. Alumni at Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant and dozens more.
Every claim is sourced. Every recommendation, defensible.
The 14 company hiring stories in the PDF are pulled from FACE Prep's verified 2026 hiring database, with primary-source URLs in the appendix. The recommended free curriculum is what we'd hand a final-year student in person. The two paid options we recommend meet a clear bar: cohort accountability, working-engineer access, or hiring-manager-recognised certification.
We update the PDF every 90 days. If a salary band shifts, a course is deprecated, or a company changes its hiring posture, the next edition reflects it.