The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), India’s premier R&D organisation under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), has opened approximately 844 contractual positions across 11 of its centres under advertisement CORP/JIT/03/2026, with the application window running from 5 October to 26 October 2026.
The vacancies cover Project Associate, Project Engineer, Senior Project Engineer/Module Lead, Project Manager/Program Manager, Tech Lead and support roles across HR, administration, finance, purchase and technician functions. Freshers are eligible to apply for the Project Associate and Project Engineer posts. The upper age limit is 30 years for freshers and 45 years for experienced candidates in the Project Engineer category, with senior roles capped at 40 years.
Posts are distributed across C-DAC’s 11 centres, including Noida, Pune, Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Delhi, Mohali, Kolkata and Guwahati. The October 2026 cycle is C-DAC’s third and largest contractual recruitment of the calendar year, following earlier JIT drives in February and June 2026. Noida accounts for one of the larger centre-level allocations in the cycle.
The Project Engineer post carries a monthly pay band of ₹39,100 to ₹59,300, translating to approximately ₹4.49 lakh to ₹7.11 lakh per annum as per the Bengaluru centre notification. Senior Project Engineer, Module Lead and Project Lead positions are indicated at ₹8.49 lakh to ₹14 lakh per annum. There is no application fee. Applications must be submitted online through the official C-DAC careers portal at careers.cdac.in, with closing times varying by centre. Contracts are offered for a term of up to three years, or until the end of the respective project.
C-DAC runs research and delivery in high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, language computing, health informatics and e-governance. The October drive adds to the pipeline of public-sector technology hiring in a quarter when private IT services firms, including Oracle and Qualcomm, have announced workforce reductions touching their India operations, and comes as the Zinnov-Nasscom GCC Landscape 2026 pegs India’s global capability centre hiring at about 510,000 roles in 2026, with 64% requiring AI, data science or automation skills.
