Jio is looking for engineers, chief AI scientists, offers fast track access to jobs at India AI Summit
If you are an AI engineer and looking for a job opportunity, Jio’s Chief AI Scientist wants to meet you. Reliance is using the Jio India AI Summit 2026 not only to showcase its AI plans but also to scout for top engineering talent, with chief AI scientist Gaurav Aggarwal offering fast-track access to the company’s recruitment team.
Reliance Industries has some big plans regarding Artificial Intelligence. As part of this effort, the company has set up a booth at the ongoing India AI Impact Summit 2026 in the Bharat Mandapam to showcase what it is building and how it plans to scale its AI ambitions. Along with this, Reliance Jio is also using the summit as a recruiting ground, with its chief AI scientist publicly inviting engineers to join him directly for roles within the company’s AI teams.
India is hosting the AI Summit at the Bharat Mandapam from 16 to 20 February. During the event, dozens of companies, including government bodies, global technology giants, start-ups and research institutes, have set up booths, offering a glimpse at their ongoing AI developments. Reliance Jio is also present at the summit, where the company is showcasing its comprehensive AI roadmap. But apart from showcasing its AI roadmap, Jio is also using the summit to connect with talented engineers and pitch them offers and potentially hire them.
In a recent post on Aggarwal wrote. He wrote, “To the talented engineers rising to the top: If you’re building in the space of AI models, optimization or platforms, we need you. Reach out and I’ll quickly introduce our recruitment team. Let’s build for India, at a scale only we know.”
Interestingly, Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries has in recent years outlined plans to build AI infrastructure and services tailored to India’s scale and language diversity. The company plans to invest around $12-15 billion in AI infrastructure, aiming for 1 gigawatt (GW) of capacity by 2027. It is also building out its India-focused AI infrastructure, including a 1GW+ green-energy-powered data center in Jamnagar, Gujarat, aimed at offering more affordable AI tools.
The company has also announced “Reliance Intelligence” in August 2025, a platform focused on developing AI services in local languages for consumers and enterprises in partnership with companies like NVIDIA, Google Cloud, and Meta.
The company has announced a partnership with NVIDIA that includes the creation of an AI supercomputer powered by Blackwell AI processors and GH200 Grace Hopper superchips. Reliance is also collaborating with Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure to optimize AI workloads and launch AI-centric cloud regions in India.