Physics careers in India
A physics degree in India goes to work in a fab, a radiotherapy department, an optics bench, or a dilution refrigerator. These are the current openings Jobvetta tracks across those paths, gathered from employer career systems and checked while active.
Physics hiring in India rarely carries the word "physics" in the job title. It shows up as device characterisation at a memory fab, dosimetry in a cancer centre, alignment engineering on a photonics line. Each card below is a live search, so the roles refresh with the index.
Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Sanand
The largest employer of physics graduates in the country. Micron, Applied Materials, GlobalFoundries, SanDisk, and Analog Devices hire for device characterisation, transistor reliability, yield, and process integration.
Hospitals and vendors nationwide
Radiation oncology runs on medical physicists: treatment planning, dosimetry, machine QA, and radiological safety officer duties. Hospital groups and imaging vendors such as Siemens Healthineers and Elekta both hire.
Bengaluru, Chennai, Ranjangaon
Silicon photonics integration, optical alignment, and lens and illumination design. GlobalFoundries, Jabil, Valeo, and HFCL run photonics and optics lines in India.
Bengaluru, Mumbai
Small but real: cryogenics, RF control electronics, and field engineering for superconducting and trapped-ion machines. Rigetti and IonQ both post India-based hardware roles.
Bengaluru, Pune
Electron microscopy, spectroscopy, thin films, and high-temperature materials. GE Aerospace, Philips, Agilent, and Bruker hire for characterisation labs and for the instruments themselves.
Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad
Where the numerical methods go: TCAD device simulation, computational fluid dynamics, cryogenic and thermal modelling, and parallelised physics codes at Intel, Airbus, and Applied Materials.
Jobvetta indexes employer career systems and government recruitment notices. India's national research institutes mostly do not use those systems: TIFR, IISc, IUCAA, BARC, the Institute for Plasma Research, the Raman Research Institute, ARIES, and the IITs advertise faculty, PhD, and postdoctoral positions on their own notice boards and through national tests.
If academic research is the goal, go to those institutes directly. This page is for the industry side of a physics career, which is where most physics graduates in India end up working.
Physics roles by title
Questions
Because industry hires the skill, not the degree. A physics MSc or PhD in India is most often hired as a device characterisation engineer, a process integration engineer, an optical or photonics engineer, or a modelling engineer. The searches on this page are built around those titles rather than the word "physicist", which on its own returns mostly medical physics.
No. Those bodies recruit through their own notice boards, centralised examinations, and centre-specific advertisements rather than through employer career systems. Jobvetta does index ISRO recruitment sources on its space jobs page, but research-institute faculty and postdoctoral positions are outside what this index covers. Check the institutes directly.
For medical physics, a recognised MSc in medical physics plus RSO certification is the standard route and the degree is the requirement. In semiconductors, photonics, and materials, a physics MSc or PhD competes directly with engineering degrees, and lab experience with characterisation tools usually matters more than which department awarded the degree.
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Each listing carries the time it was last seen at the source, and roles leave the active index when the employer stops showing them. The roles on this page refresh with the live index.
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