Samsung aims to hire more chip talent in India to prepare for the AI era

Samsung recently started getting big clients for its advanced semiconductor chips. So, it wants to improve the pace of its chip design development, and it has started hiring for several engineering positions that are related to semiconductor chip design.

Samsung is hiring chip engineers in India for research and development

According to a report from PulseNews, Samsung Semiconductor Research India (SSIR) is hiring several research and development engineers for Samsung Foundry, Samsung Memory, and System LSI, which are the company's major semiconductor chip divisions.

Based on open job position listings, Samsung is hiring for more than a dozen positions, including memory chip design engineers, graphics driver engineers, SSD firmware engineers, and system-on-chip (SoC) design engineers. Most of these positions are related to core semiconductor chip technologies.

This move is being seen as Samsung's strategy to strengthen its semiconductor chip design capabilities to better prepare for the artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) era. It wants to convert SSIR from a simple research support centre to one of its best AI chip design centres globally.

The South Korean firm has hired Rajesh Krishnan to drive SSIR. Krishnan is a veteran in the memory chip sector. The company plans to expand local talent for chip design research, which also aligns with the Indian government's Semicon India initiative that aims to establish India as chip hub.

Asif Iqbal Shaik - Senior Editor

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Asif is a computer engineer turned technology journalist. He has been using Samsung phones since 2004, and his current smartphone is the Galaxy S23 Ultra. He loves headphones, mechanical keyboards, and PC hardware. When not writing about technology, he likes watching crime and science fiction movies and TV shows.

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