Thanks to sprawling tech parks and growing startup scene, Pune is emerging as an AI engineering hot spot. It’s also become a prime location for multinational companies looking to establish their operations, now hosting more than 500 centers from 30 different countries. This mix gives AI engineers there a chance to work on everything from financial fraud detection to healthcare analytics and enterprise-grade AI systems designed for global markets.
Below are some of the most active employers in Pune recruiting engineers who can train and deploy production-grade machine learning models and generative AI applications.
Top Companies Hiring AI Engineers in Pune
- Mastercard
- Nvidia
- Microsoft
- ZS
- Capco
Top Companies Hiring AI Engineers in Pune
Industry: IT Services, Digital Transformation
Tech Mahindra provides IT services and AI-first applications to more than 1,100 customers across 90 countries, with a special focus on the telecommunications sector. Headquartered at Hinjewadi IT Park in Pune, the company’s AI engineering team builds enterprise generative AI applications, trains conversational models and deploys automated network management tools.
Industry: Semiconductors, AI Infrastructure
Nvidia helped spark the modern AI boom with the world’s first GPU, and now builds much of the computing infrastructure behind modern AI. Its Pune engineers work across areas such as retrieval-augmented generation frameworks, agentic AI systems and CUDA-optimized software stacks, giving engineers the opportunity to build the systems behind most of today’s AI applications.
Industry: Financial Services, Payments
Mastercard uses AI to protect transactions and make smarter decisions across a payment network, handling more than 220 billion transactions annually. The company’s Pune-based technology center hires AI engineers to build global-scale fraud models, agentic systems, real-time risk analytics platforms and machine learning infrastructure.
Industry: IT Consulting
Accenture brings artificial intelligence into the day-to-day operations of more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500. For these major enterprise clients, its AI engineers adapt foundation models into scalable, purpose-built applications that are able to automate both mindless, routine tasks and more intricate business processes.
Industry: Financial Services, Investment Management
BNY is the world’s largest custodian bank, overseeing more than $59 trillion in assets. In Pune, its AI engineers work on the technology behind securities services and investment operations, applying machine learning to the way in which financial data flows and gets analyzed through those systems.
Industry: Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing
Microsoft is integrating AI into everything from its Azure infrastructure to Copilot and enterprise software used by more than 400 million users. Its Pune engineering operation hires AI and machine learning engineers to build intelligent features and cloud services across the company’s broader product ecosystem.
Industry: Management Consulting, Healthcare Technology
ZS combines data science with industry expertise to help pharmaceutical and healthcare companies make better decisions around commercial strategy and patient care. At its Pune campus, ZS’s AI engineers build custom LLMs, predictive patient models and MLOps pipelines that transform clinical datasets into tools that can inform things like drug development and patient care.
Industry: Information Technology, Enterprise Computing
Since inventing the hard disk drive and the floppy disk in its early days, IBM has spent decades defining enterprise technology. The company now anchors its AI strategy around watsonx and hybrid cloud, backed by more than 150,000 active patents. AI engineers fine-tune IBM’s open Granite foundation models and deploy them across Red Hat OpenShift cloud architectures at its systems development lab in Pune.
Industry: Financial Services, Consulting
Capco makes technology for financial institutions, where AI has to work within strict security and regulatory constraints. Operating out of India since 2008, the company’s AI engineers are tasked with developing generative AI applications and intelligent automation for high-stakes use cases spanning risk, compliance, trading and fraud detection.
Industry: Digital Engineering, IT Consulting
Persistent is a Pune-born engineering company that’s been building software and engineering services since 1990 — long before generative AI became a corporate priority. AI engineers there work on generative AI applications, enterprise knowledge graphs and MLOps infrastructure that turn AI models into working software.
