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cover story · open call · 27 apr 2026

The first verified India-AI offer letter we cite wins ₹10,000 and page one of issue 002.

Sarvam, Krutrim, Anthropic India, OpenAI India, DeepMind Bangalore, Adobe Research, MSR-I — we’re tracking 15 anchor briefs across these labs. Until a real, source-cited offer lands, this page stays empty. No fabricated “cover” story, no recruiter-deck numbers, no anonymous screenshots. Send yours →

verified · reddit thread or offer-letter PDF requiredbounty · ₹10,000 to the first cleared submissionprivacy · name redacted, package + level cited

§ 02 — the editorial bar

this is what our placement vertical cites — the same bar applies here

3 of 8 verified · all linked to source thread

verified

Microsoft.

offer for · u/Mission_Trip_5692

annual ctc₹85 LPA

Microsoft · SSE (Noida)₹85L

verified

FAANG-adjacent Product Co.

offer for · u/OverallPatient2607

annual ctc₹80+ LPA

FAANG-adjacent Product Co · SDE-2 · 3 YOE₹80L+

verified

Senior IC · Product Co.

offer for · u/QuietRennaissance

annual ctc₹66 LPA

Senior IC · Product Co · Senior IC · negotiated raise₹66L

§ 03 — the editorial queue

15 anchor briefs in editorial review. Each ships when the citations clear — never before.

Below: the working queue, in priority order. We’re tracking Sarvam, Krutrim, Anthropic India, Cohere, OpenAI India, Adobe Research India, Google DeepMind Bangalore, AI4Bharat, Microsoft Research India. The day a brief lands the citation bar, it moves to the home page.

01 · salary briefin editorial review

Sarvam AI hiring process — bands, bar, and the ML-engineer ladder, 2026 cycle.

02 · field notein editorial review

Krutrim salary breakdown — research-engineer vs applied-scientist, what each track actually pays.

03 · interview briefin editorial review

How to get hired at Anthropic India — the four-loop interview, decoded.

04 · salary briefin editorial review

Adobe Research India — pay bands, the publication record they look for, the recruiter pipeline.

05 · field notein editorial review

Cohere India hiring — open roles, hiring rubric, the exact GitHub footprint that lands the call.

06 · dossierin editorial review

OpenAI India hiring insider — what we know so far, what nobody is saying.

07 · dossierin editorial review

AI4Bharat × IIIT-Hyderabad — the pipeline that produced India's first wave of LLM engineers.

08 · salary briefin editorial review

Microsoft Research India — pay bands by level, the bar for fresher RSDE.

09 · field notein editorial review

Google DeepMind Bangalore — three engineers, three different paths in.

10 · playbookin editorial review

SDE-1 to ML-engineer in India — the 14-week pivot, by people who actually did it.

11 · salary briefin editorial review

AI engineer salary in India 2026 — the real ranges by company tier and seniority.

12 · comparisonin editorial review

Sarvam vs Krutrim vs Adobe Research — the salary triangle, side-by-side.

13 · comparisonin editorial review

Research engineer vs ML engineer — pay, scope, and where each one ceilings out in India.

14 · dossierin editorial review

Top 25 AI startups hiring in India 2026 — by team-size, funding, and verified offer count.

15 · field notein editorial review

India's first verified ₹1Cr+ fresher AI offer — when it lands, this is the cover.

ai briefs in editorial review

verified ai offers · cited

₹10K

bounty · first verified offer

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