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Cohort 01 · Aug 2026 · Kochi
Cohort 01 / Aug 2026 / Kochi · In-person / Applications open
Learn to design, build & launch real AI agents.
A 6-month, in-person career programme in Kochi.
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.”
Fahad P N
Co-founder & CFO, SoftServedWeb · Faculty, Cohort 01
20 seats · ₹8–80+ LPA roles
Applications open · Class starts Aug 10
§ Applications
Open · Class starts Aug 10
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
- AI agent market — $200B by 2034
- 920% surge in demand for agent-building skills
- 73% of large companies piloting AI agents
- ₹8–80 LPA roles for AI engineers
- Cohort 01 starts Aug 10 · 20 seats
- 163% growth in AI job postings YoY
- 56% wage premium for AI skills
- India needs 1M AI professionals by 2026
- AI agent market — $200B by 2034
- 920% surge in demand for agent-building skills
- 73% of large companies piloting AI agents
- ₹8–80 LPA roles for AI engineers
- Cohort 01 starts Aug 10 · 20 seats
The problem
/why agentic AI?
Build the agents. Don't get replaced by them.
Why now
/what AI has done to jobs
Three years. Thousands of jobs gone.
And better-paid ones created.
Forget model names and release dates. This is what each wave of AI meant for working people — who lost work, who got hired, and where the new jobs are.
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IBM
May 2023
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IBM pauses hiring for 7,800 roles
The first big company to say it out loud: back-office jobs that AI can do won't be refilled by people. HR, finance and admin roles go first — and every CEO watching takes notes.
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The programme
/what is NorLabs AI
NorLabs AI is a 6-month, in-person AI programme in Kochi. We take students and working professionals from the basics of AI to confidently building the AI agents companies now run on — and into the jobs hiring for them.
The story above is the problem. This is the answer: a small, intensive class built around the tools companies actually use in 2026, the way real teams work — and the interview practice that gets 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 engineers who build AI systems for real companies — not career lecturers reading slides from last year.
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Proof, not paper
You graduate with six finished, working projects 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 in Kochi who build AI systems for companies for a living. Norlabs exists to turn students and working professionals into the engineers companies are actually hiring for in 2026 — one intensive, in-person class at a time.
No recorded lectures, no filler. You build alongside mentors four days a week, finish six real projects, and walk into interviews with proof of work — not just a certificate.
20
Seats per cohort
24
Weeks, live in Kochi
100+
Recruiter intros
Meet the faculty
/learn from people who ship
No career lecturers, no last year's slides. Every mentor builds or deploys agentic systems for a living — and teaches you the way their own teams work.
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Aniz B N
CTO, Dialgen.AI · Faculty, Cohort 01
Builds and deploys multi-agent systems in production. Leads the agent orchestration track.
Multi-agentOrchestration
FP02
Fahad P N
Co-founder & CFO, SoftServedWeb
Brings the build-and-business lens — how agentic products actually ship and pay off. Mentors students on turning projects into real outcomes.
ProductOutcomes
NF03
Norlabs Faculty
Practitioners · Kochi
A rotating bench of engineers shipping RAG, automation, and fine-tuning work for real teams.
RAGAutomation
CP04
Career & Placement
Interview prep · Recruiter network
Runs Friday mocks, resume teardowns, and 100+ recruiter introductions across the industry.
InterviewsPlacements
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
Student life
/life at the lab
Twenty-four weeks on campus is more than lectures. Here's what a week at Norlabs actually feels like.
Campus at MG Road, Kochi
A dedicated build space in the middle of the city — desks, whiteboards, fast Wi-Fi and mentors in the same room, four days a week.
Demo Fridays
Every week ends with demos. You present what you shipped, defend your decisions and watch nineteen other builds evolve alongside yours.
Hackathons & build nights
Internal sprints and public hackathons through the cohort — the same events on our socials. Ship fast, break things, present anyway.
1:1 mentor hours
Weekly one-on-ones to unblock your project, review your code and keep your career plan honest.
A cohort, not a classroom
Twenty people making the same pivot at the same time. Study groups, chai breaks, late debugging sessions — the network you keep after graduation.
Career Fridays
Coding drills (DSA), mock interviews and resume reviews — one full day every week until you're offer-ready.
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- 24
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- 6
- capstones shipped
Student testimonials
/what our students say
I came in as a laid-off support engineer who had never touched an LLM API. Six months later I demoed a multi-agent research system in my final interview — the panel spent more time on my GitHub than my resume.
Anagha S.
IT support engineer, 3 yrs
→ AI Engineer at a Bengaluru product company
The Friday interview drills were brutal and exactly what I needed. Mock after mock until answering system-design questions felt like muscle memory.
Mohammed F.
2024 B.Tech graduate → GenAI Developer, GCC in Kochi
Being in the room matters. When my agent pipeline broke at 7pm, a mentor sat with me until we found the bug. You don't get that from recorded videos.
Keerthana R.
Frontend developer, 2 yrs → Agentic-AI Engineer, remote US team
Six real capstones on GitHub did more for me than any certificate. Recruiters replied because they could see working systems, not claims.
Vishnu P.
Career break, 18 months → ML Engineer at a healthcare startup
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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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 AI agents that can plan a task, carry it out and check their own work — inside real products.
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 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
0%
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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Showing
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Skills tracked
Window
36mo
2023 → 2026
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Agent orchestration
Coordinating teams of AI agents that work together on one task.
+920%
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RAG — AI that knows your data
Connecting AI to company documents — now in every job listing.
+240%
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Vector databases
The “search by meaning” storage every AI team runs on.
+180%
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MCP + tool design
The plumbing that lets AI agents use apps and services.
+165%
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Testing & monitoring AI
Proving an AI system works properly before users meet it.
+130%
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AI security
Protecting AI systems from being tricked — now a must-have.
+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 2023's skills is already half a degree. We teach 2026's — and the habits to keep up after.
Your toolkit
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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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