NPCI looks to onboard over 250 engineering graduates under hiring drive

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has announced to hire over 250 graduate engineering trainees (GETs) under its hiring campaign across India, saying that the initiative will also impart ‘deep tech’ training to these graduates.

The NPCI will be offering the ‘Learn DeepTech while you Earn’ programme for the GETs to pursue Post Graduate(PG) Certification in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) or Blockchain from a reputed institution. GETs will get the opportunity to pursue one year PG programmes in addition to the salary package being offered to them, the NPCI said in a statement. 

Further, the GETs will be placed at NPCI’s facilities in key metro cities across India. Fresh graduates will also get to work on live projects where they get to work on top-notch products like UPI, RuPay, and FASTag, as maintained by NPCI. 

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Nishith Chaturvedi, Chief HR at NPCI said, “Through this initiative, we wish to create high impact career opportunities for young innovators to contribute towards developing breakthrough technology in the payments space. We will continue to work with India’s tech-savvy brains and develop revolutionary offerings to create a delightful and seamless payment experience for millions of Indians.” 

The initiative aims to leverage the combination of education and technology to upgrade retail payments, widen the audience reach, and build greater efficiency for a financially independent India, it claimed. GETs will be the key drivers of innovation, to ensure finance and digital payment systems reach everyone through the click of a button, as per NPCI’s assertions. 

Vishal Anand Kanvaty, Chief Market Innovation, NPCI said, “We believe that fostering and upskilling young talent is a stepping stone towards creating a ‘truly digital’ payments ecosystem in India.” 

NPCI has revealed that the GETs will become part of a peer group consisting of India’s best tech minds and will get to work with a strong technology team of over 550 domain specialists. They will be the key drivers of innovation who can help the NPCI realise the vision of ‘digital payments for all’.