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Cohort 01 · Jul 2026 · Kochi
Cohort 01 / Jul 2026 / Kochi · In-person / Applications open
Design, build & deploy agentic AI systems at scale.
A 24-week applied research programme.
NorLabs AI · Kochi · 2026
/ Thesis
From prompt to production.
§ Market citation
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Agentic AI specialists India needs by 2027
Nasscom · Workforce 2026
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§ Faculty
“India needs 50,000 agentic AI specialists by 2027. We're building them.”
Aswin Lal
CTO, SoftServedWeb · Faculty, Cohort 01
20 seats · ₹8–80+ LPA roles
Applications open · Closes Jun 30
§ Applications
Open · Closes Jun 30
20 seats · 24-week live cohort · ₹8–80+ LPA target roles.
Live cohort · Kochi · in-person studios
- 163% growth in AI job postings YoY
- 56% wage premium for AI skills
- India needs 1M AI professionals by 2026
- Agentic AI market — $200B by 2034
- 920% surge in agentic framework adoption
- 73% of enterprises piloting AI agents
- ₹8–80 LPA roles for agentic engineers
- Cohort 01 closes Jun 30 · 20 seats
- 163% growth in AI job postings YoY
- 56% wage premium for AI skills
- India needs 1M AI professionals by 2026
- Agentic AI market — $200B by 2034
- 920% surge in agentic framework adoption
- 73% of enterprises piloting AI agents
- ₹8–80 LPA roles for agentic engineers
- Cohort 01 closes Jun 30 · 20 seats
The problem
/why agentic AI?
Build the agents. Don't get replaced by them.
The skill shift
/36 months that broke the rules
We compared 2023 and 2026 job specs for the same roles. A third of the skill list flipped.
Below: what stopped paying, and what started — the exact split the curriculum is built around.
Skills retired since 2023
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of skills listed in 2023 senior-engineer specs no longer appear in 2026 listings for the same titles.
New skills introduced
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of 2026 specs require at least one skill that did not exist as a category in 2023.
§ The skill split
What started paying.
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Skills tracked
Window
36mo
2023 → 2026
01
Agent orchestration
Planner/worker/critic patterns ship to production.
+920%
02
RAG + retrieval evals
Recall@k & grounding score now in every job spec.
+240%
03
Vector databases
Default infra in any LLM-touching team.
+180%
04
MCP servers + tool design
The interface between agents and the world.
+165%
05
Eval & observability for LLMs
Replacing 'test in production' with real rigor.
+130%
06
Prompt injection defence
From research curiosity to security review item.
+110%
Source
n = 1,840 job specs across ML Engineer, AI Engineer and AI-adjacent backend roles · India & US-remote · 2023 vs 2026. Naukri, LinkedIn Jobs, Lever · NorLabs analysis.
A degree in the 2023 stack is already half a degree. We teach the 2026 one — and the habits to keep up after.
Why now
/the launches that shifted the ground
Eight launches. Three years.
One job description rewritten.
Each marker below is a vendor announcement that changed what engineers had to know the next morning — the shape of a curriculum that has to keep moving.
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GPT-4 Turbo + enterprise pricing
Companies stop debating AI and start budgeting it. Every roadmap suddenly has an 'AI line item' the engineering team is on the hook for.
01/08
Field report · India · Q2 2026
/the role atlas
Six roles that didn't exist when most engineers graduated. We mapped the salary, the day-to-day reality, and the specific companies hiring — so you know exactly what you're training for.
Methodology
Eight-week survey across the Indian and US-remote AI job markets. Salary verified against offer letters where shared. Hiring-manager conversations under Chatham House rules.
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Naukri · LinkedIn · Lever
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Hiring managers interviewed
GCCs · Startups · US-Remote
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Role archetypes mapped
From 19 initial titles
Index01/06
Now readingAgentic AI Developer
Source
Demand index: weighted by job-post volume, salary growth and company breadth · Naukri + LinkedIn · Apr 2026
Profile
Agentic AI Developer
Builds multi-agent systems that plan, delegate and self-correct in production.
Entry · 0–2 yrs
₹12–18L
Mid · 3–6 yrs
₹22–35L
Senior · 7+ yrs
₹40–60L
A typical week
- Design agent topologies (planner / worker / critic) for a real product loop.
- Write tools, memory stores and guardrails — not prompts.
- Run weekly evals: tool-use accuracy, hallucination rate, cost per task.
Skills you ship with
LangGraphMCPCrewAIReActAgentOpsPineconeFastAPI
Where the jobs sit
- →Razorpay
- →CRED
- →Postman
- →GCC: JP Morgan
- →GCC: Walmart
- →Remote: Anthropic
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NorLabs prepares you here
Wk 09–18 · Agent orchestration & tool-use track
The programme
/what is NorLabs AI
NorLabs AI is a 24-week, in-person agentic-AI programme in Kochi. We take graduates and working developers from generative-AI foundations to shipping production multi-agent systems — and into the roles hiring for them.
The market sections above are the problem. This is the answer: a small, intensive cohort built around the 2026 stack, the way real teams build agents, and the interviews that get you the offer. One intake. Twenty seats. No filler.
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Live & in-person
Four days a week, five hours a day, on campus in Kochi. No recorded lectures — you build alongside mentors in the room.
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Faculty who ship
Taught by practitioners deploying agentic systems in production — not career lecturers reading slides from last year.
03
Proof, not paper
You graduate with six production-grade capstones on GitHub — evidence recruiters actually open, not just a certificate.
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Built to be hired
Friday interview prep, 1:1 mocks and 100+ recruiter introductions across product companies, GCCs and remote US teams.
Not sure yet? Sit in on a free webinar first.
See the curriculum, meet the faculty, then decide. Cohort 01 is capped at 20 seats.
Who we are
/about Norlabs
We're a small team of practitioners in Kochi who deploy agentic systems for a living. Norlabs exists to turn graduates and working developers into the engineers companies are actually hiring for in 2026 — through one intensive, in-person cohort at a time.
No recorded lectures, no filler. You build alongside mentors four days a week, ship six production-grade capstones, and walk into interviews with proof of work — not just a certificate.
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Seats per cohort
24
Weeks, live in Kochi
100+
Recruiter intros
The curriculum
/what to expect
Five blocks across 24 weeks — live in Kochi, four days a week. The modules below cycle through what a working day actually looks like.
Agent Architecture & RAG
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Input
Agent
Output
Memory
Tools
LLM
Agent loop
Wk 01 → Wk 05 · Foundations
Your stack
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Got questions?
Everything you need to know before joining the program.
Yes — it's built for exactly that moment. You don't need a PhD or prior AI experience: we start from generative-AI foundations and take you all the way to production-grade multi-agent systems. If you can code at a basic level and can commit to a live, intensive cohort, you're a fit.
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