How to Use This Kit
What is inside, how to read it, and the one promise this kit makes.
The 2026 AI Job Market in India
The headline numbers, where demand concentrates, and the salary bands you can target.
The Role Map
AI Engineer vs ML Engineer vs GenAI Engineer vs MLOps — and the fastest credible path for you.
The Seven Skills That Get Hired
Each skill paired with the proof a hiring manager needs to see.
The 90-Day Roadmap
A week-by-week plan you can run around a full-time job, with a weekly scorecard.
Portfolio Blueprint 1 — Production RAG
Ingestion, hybrid retrieval, reranking, cited answers and a real evaluation.
Portfolio Blueprint 2 — Tool-Using Agent
Scoped tools, human approval, failure recovery and prompt-injection tests.
Portfolio Blueprint 3 — Eval Harness
Golden set, LLM-as-judge, CI regression gate — your strongest signal.
Portfolio Blueprint 4 — MCP Server
Wrap a real tool as an MCP server and demonstrate the agent ecosystem.
The Tool and Model Landscape
Current models, prices, vector databases, frameworks and the cost reality.
The Interview Bank — 45 Questions
LLM fundamentals, RAG, agents, evaluation, serving and system design, with senior answers.
Getting Hired
Resume, LinkedIn, GitHub and salary negotiation for Indian AI roles.
Your 30-Day Action Plan
Three goals, printable checklists and a plain-English glossary.
