AI Jobs in India: LinkedIn's CEO Names the 51% Boom
Verdict: the AI jobs boom in India is real and quantified — AI engineering roles are growing 51% year-on-year on LinkedIn platform data, the strongest hiring is in AI engineering, data-centre, healthcare and robotics work, and Dan Shapero's entry advice for a 22-year-old is to attach yourself to the most talented people in your discipline and get genuinely fluent with AI tools. Asked in a…
LinkedIn's CEO Dan Shapero reported that AI engineering roles in India are growing at a rate of 51% year-on-year according to data from the LinkedIn platform. This is the strongest hiring sector among AI-related roles, with other notable growth areas including data-center operations, healthcare, education, startups and robotics.
Additionally, Shapero highlighted that data-center hiring has tripled over the past decade. The CEO emphasized the importance of attaching oneself to the most talented individuals in one's field and becoming fluent with AI tools. He also noted that around 12% of skills listed in Indian job postings change each year, primarily impacting finance, marketing, sales and legal sectors.
India represents LinkedIn's second-largest market, with 186 million members among more than 1.3 billion professionals globally. US companies' overseas R&D hiring in India grew from 27% in 2019 to 41% in 2025. Shapero cautioned against viewing AI as a job-displacing force, attributing the global hiring slowdown more to higher interest rates than to AI adoption.
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