India Deep-Tech Hiring Report — September 2026

A point-in-time census of currently-open roles discovered directly from the career pages of indexed Indian deep-tech companies — not job-board aggregates. Numbers are frozen for September 2026 and will not change.

Trend figures compare this month's frozen snapshot to the previous monthly one — like with like, and unaffected by missing posting dates. Changes reflect both real hiring activity and growth in the number of companies we track — newly indexed companies add to a month's count even where the underlying roles predate it.

A role counts towards every skill detected in it, so skill totals overlap and do not sum to the open-role count. Trends compare against the August 2026 top 15 only — a skill marked New was outside that list, so its earlier total isn't recorded and is not treated as zero.

Roles whose posting date falls inside September 2026 — a measure of new hiring activity, not standing headcount. Only roles published with a posting date are considered; a future revision will rank on the date we first saw each role.

Companies with open roles at the snapshot that were not listed as hiring when September 2026 began — newly indexed, or indexed earlier and found hiring during the month. Their roles may predate the month.

Deep-tech Work India — India Deep-Tech Hiring Report, September 2026. https://deeptechwork.in/reports/2026-09/