Transform your potential into an elite career with the GenAI Nexus Fellowship.
Become a research-validated Agentic AI engineer through India's first GCC-led, IIIT-Hyderabad–anchored fellowship — and step into the roles the world's top hubs are hiring for.
Selection runs through NexusTiQ 24 — a free, 24-hour solo GenAI hackathon. Your score decides your seat and your scholarship, up to 100% of the programme fee.
The year of autonomous agents has a talent problem.
As 1,800+ Global Capability Centers move GenAI from experimentation to mission-critical core operations, the demand for research-grade agentic engineers far outstrips supply.
Shortfall of qualified AI professionals in India by 2026.
Of GCCs now mandate GenAI integration into core operations.
Lost per fresher to a six-month onboarding lag for unspecialized graduates.
Salary premium commanded by Agentic AI & LLMOps roles.
One fellowship. Four ways to build the future.
Computing-background students breaking into elite ₹10L–₹20L+ Agentic AI roles previously reserved for Tier-1 institutes.
Apply now →Upskill or reskill into research-validated GenAI engineering and leap into an elite, future-proof career track.
Apply now →Recruit pre-vetted, research-hardened, sandbox-ready engineers — eliminating the six-month onboarding lag.
Partner with us →Nominate your top students and propel them into Tier-1 GCC roles — with CXO stage visibility for your brand.
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Master AI from AI masters.
Get mentored by the industry leaders who build the tech and transform businesses.
Twenty-one founding advisory leaders — CXOs and senior technologists drawn from the world's most influential GCCs and global technology giants — mentor this cohort directly.
The launch, on the record.
Twenty-one GCC leaders, IIIT-Hyderabad and CareerTiQ opened the inaugural cohort in Hyderabad. Watch the full session, or see the room that started it.
A 240-hour roadmap from skill to corporate validation.
Three continuous phases — Skills, Research, and Corporate integration — for comprehensive, job-ready development.
Agentic frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI), vector operations, and production-grade MVP prototyping with CareerTiQ SMEs.
Model science, QLoRA fine-tuning, hallucination evaluation, and architectural defense — with a full research audit.
Sandbox integration, zero-trust security, and a V-Day demo to leadership — mentored by our board of global CXOs.
The modules & tools elite GCC roles demand.
A curriculum mapped to what hiring managers actually screen for in 2026 — high-level capabilities built on the industry's current, production-grade tool stack.
Design multi-agent systems, planning loops, and autonomous tool-using workflows.
Build retrieval pipelines, embeddings, and knowledge-grounded enterprise assistants.
Adapt and specialize foundation models with parameter-efficient techniques.
Ship, scale, and monitor models in production with modern serving infrastructure.
Hallucination control, red-teaming, and responsible-AI evaluation at scale.
Tool-use, function calling, and cross-system interoperability for enterprise agents.
Future-proof compensation.
Fellows step into elite agentic R&D roles that typically require three to five years of experience.
Where our fellows deploy agentic AI in 2026.
Autonomous risk-modeling and agentic fraud detection for investment-banking hubs.
Agentic supply-chain forecasting and hyper-personalized retail agents.
AI-led drug-discovery analytics and clinical data synthesis for pharma corridors.
Self-healing code and platform-reliability agents for enterprise solutions.
GCCs & global tech giants hiring for these roles.
Representative Global Capability Centers and technology leaders building agentic-AI teams across the verticals our fellows train for.
Indicative employers actively building agentic-AI capability in India — not an exhaustive list.
Program fee
One fee covers all three phases — live SME sessions, the IIIT-Hyderabad immersion and the GCC-mentored Corporate Forge.
Payable only after selection. Includes mentor hours, sandbox access, capstone review and certification — no separate module charges.
Food and accommodation in Hyderabad for the one-week on-campus immersion — arranged end-to-end by the program.
Admission runs through the NexusTiQ 24 hackathon. Your score sets your scholarship tier — up to a fully funded seat.
EARN YOUR SCHOLARSHIPFellowship registration for the 2026 inaugural cohort closes 9 September 2026. Fee is payable after selection. NexusTiQ 24 scholarships of up to 100% are applied against the ₹1,10,000 programme fee.
Are you ready for an elite career?
The fellowship is open to ambitious talent from a computing background who want to build a research-validated, future-proof career in Agentic AI. Final selection follows a merit-based AI-readiness check.
Any graduate or postgraduate in their pre-final or final year with a computing background.
Professionals with less than 3 years of experience who wish to upskill or reskill into an elite GenAI career.
One weekend, built alone, can pay for the entire fellowship.
Build alone, get scored automatically, earn a fellowship scholarship.
scholarship on the ₹1,10,000 programme fee — a fully funded fellowship seat.
Build window
GCC industry problems
Fellowship seats
Scholarship tiers
NexusTiQ 24 is the admission gate for the GenAI Nexus Fellowship. Over one weekend you pick an industry track, build a working GenAI project on your own, and push it to GitHub. Submissions are assessed on applied reasoning — your prompts, your problem framing, your commit history — not on credentials.
A solo format means your score reflects what you built.
Weights are published before you start, and applied to every entry.
Top performers get scholarships and fast-tracked interviews.
One GitHub account per participant, linked at registration.
Push 3–5 progressive commits; deadline bulk uploads are flagged.
Entries without it in the README are filtered out.
All entries are cross-checked for code similarity.
Students and early-career developers who can ship a small working project in a weekend.
A verified GitHub profile and an approved LLM API key.
Nominate a campus cohort. Participation is free, fully online, and returns an objective ranking.
NexusTiQ 24 registration closes 4 September, 5:00 PM. Registration closes 4 September, 5:00 PM.
Reserve your place in the 2026 cohort.
Only 100 fellowship seats. Classes begin 12 September 2026. Tell us about yourself and our team will be in touch.
By submitting, you agree to be contacted by the CareerTiQ team.