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🤖 AI & Machine Learning✦ nasscom IT-ITeS SSCNSQF L 7🏛️ GoI ₹12K Eligible📚 NAAC Evidence
NLP Engineer
NSQF Level 7
Design and deploy natural language processing systems — tokenisation, transformers, BERT, LLMs and conversational AI — aligned to nasscom NSQF Level 7 (SSC/Q8116). NLP Engineers are in high demand at AI product companies, BFSI organisations and multilingual enterprise platforms across India.
₹5–12L
Avg Salary
L 7
NSQF Level
33 cr.
ABC Credits
₹12K
GoI Incentive
Program Overview Video
1,500+ enrolled₹28L top package150+ hirers
NSQF LevelLevel 7
ABC Credits33 credits
GoI Incentive₹12,000
Salary Range₹5–12 LPA
Official Partners
MeitY · FutureSkills Prime
Ministry of Electronics & IT, Govt. of India
NSDC · Skill India
National Skill Development Corporation
Qualification Pack Specification
SSC/Q8116| QP Code | SSC/Q8116 |
| QP Version | v2.0 |
| NSQF Level | Level 7 |
| ABC Credits | 33 credits (NEP 2020 / NCrF compliant) |
| Certification Body | nasscom IT-ITeS Sector Skills Council |
| Assessment Body | NSDC Authorized Assessment Partner |
| Alignment | FutureSkills Prime · Skill India · NSQF 2022 |
| NAAC Criteria | 1.3.3 · 3.3.1 · ABC Integration Eligible |
| GoI Incentive | ₹12,000 per eligible candidate (via PFMS) |
| Industry Sectors | IT · ITeS · Telecom · BFSI |
Who is this program for?
Colleges, HoDs & Principals
Use nasscom CAC certificate as NAAC evidence under Criterion 1.3.3 & 3.3.1. Map syllabi to NOS standards. Fulfil ABC credit obligations for NEP 2020 compliance.
🎓 NAAC Evidence Provided
Placement Officers (TPOs)
nasscom-certified students are recognised by 300+ nasscom member companies. Higher offer-to-joining conversion from NSQF-aligned candidate profiles.
✅ 300+ nasscom Companies
Final Year Students & Freshers
Earn NSQF certification, ABC credits, and government incentive via PFMS direct bank transfer on placement.
💰 ₹12K GoI Incentive
Working Professionals
Upskill with industry-recognised NSQF certification. nasscom member companies fast-track QP-certified profiles in hiring pipelines.
Corporates & HR Teams
Pre-screen candidates using nasscom QP credentials. Qualify for GoI incentives when upskilling existing workforce via NSDC-approved schemes.
Official NAAC Evidence Support for Higher Education Institutions
Earn a nasscom Curriculum Alignment Certificate (CAC) — accepted as NAAC audit evidence. Institutions gain credible documentation for accreditation and NEP 2020 compliance.
National Occupational Standards (NOS)
SSC/Q8116MandatorySSC/N8161
Build text processing and representation pipelines
45 hrs
MandatorySSC/N8162
Develop and fine-tune transformer-based NLP models
55 hrs
MandatorySSC/N8163
Build retrieval-augmented and applied NLP systems
50 hrs
MandatorySSC/N8164
Evaluate, deploy and safeguard NLP applications
40 hrs
MandatoryDGT/VSQ/N0102
Employability Skills
60 hrs
What You'll Be Able To Do
8 outcomes01
Build robust text preprocessing and tokenization pipelines for multiple languages including Indic scripts
02
Design and train sequence models and transformer architectures for NLP tasks
03
Fine-tune pretrained language models for classification, NER, QA and summarization
04
Build and optimize retrieval-augmented generation systems over enterprise document corpora
05
Engineer effective prompts and evaluation harnesses for large language models
06
Deploy and serve NLP models with low latency and monitor for drift and hallucination
07
Evaluate NLP systems with task-appropriate metrics and human-in-the-loop validation
08
Apply safety, bias mitigation and privacy controls to language applications
Government of India Incentive — ₹12,000 per Eligible Candidate
Via FutureSkills Prime · MeitY + nasscom · Disbursed through PFMS directly to learner's bank account
₹4,500
Training Fee Support
₹7,500
Post-Placement Incentive
PFMS
Direct Bank Transfer
Eligibility: Indian citizen, age 15–45. First-time skill certification only. Valid Aadhaar + active bank account required.
Curriculum & Syllabus
11 modulesSSC/Q8116
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11
Modules
🎯
8
Outcomes
📋
5
NOS Units
🏆
L7
NSQF
01
Text Processing and Linguistic Foundations
7 topics
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02
Text Representation and Embeddings
7 topics
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03
Classical NLP and Sequence Models
6 topics
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04
Transformer Architectures
7 topics
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05
Fine-tuning and Transfer Learning
6 topics
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06
Large Language Models and Prompting
7 topics
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07
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 topics
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08
Core NLP Applications
6 topics
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09
Evaluation, Deployment and Monitoring
6 topics
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10
Responsible and Safe NLP
5 topics
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11
Capstone NLP Project
6 topics
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Want the full syllabus with NOS breakdowns & assessment pattern?
Constituent Workshops
1 workshopsComplete these nasscom-certified workshops to build the foundation for NLP Engineer. Each awards NSQF credits and ABC credits independently.
NLP & Text AI Workshop
Skills & Tech Stack
Tools & Technologies
PythonPyTorchTensorFlowHugging Face TransformersspaCyNLTKGensimLangChainLlamaIndexFAISSPineconeWeaviatevLLMsentence-transformersDatasetsOpenAI APIWeights & BiasesDocker
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nasscom Member Companies — Active Hirers
16 companiesTCSInfosysWiproHCL TechnologiesCognizantTech MahindraAccentureIBMCapgeminiLTIMindtreeHexawareMphasisAmazon Web ServicesMicrosoftGoogleOpenAI