We are looking for one smart, driven, curious person who speaks Tamil and English, is excited about AI, and wants to put it to work inside government.

We care more about how you think than how long your CV is.

WHY THIS ROLE EXISTS

Tamil Nadu created India's first dedicated state AI ministry in May 2026. It is funded at ₹398 crore for 2026–27, it reaches across 54 departments, and most of what it has announced does not yet have anyone building it.

Roughly 80 million people speak Tamil. Almost none of them can use a government service by speaking their own language to a machine, because nobody has built it yet. That is the gap.

Every technology shift so far reached business first and government years later. This one does not have to. Tamil Nadu has the budget, the mandate and the political will right now. Someone is going to be in the room when those decisions get made. We want that person to be you.

WHAT YOU WILL ACTUALLY DO

Get into rooms. Build relationships across the AI, IT and Digital Services Department, TNeGA, ELCOT,



iTNT Hub and the line departments that own the real problems.

Listen properly. Sit with officials, understand what actually breaks in their day, and bring back problems worth solving rather than requirements documents.

Tell the story. Explain in Tamil, to people who are not engineers, why an AI agent that answers a citizen in their own language and then closes the ticket is different from a chatbot. You will be doing this in front of ministers, secretaries and district officers.

Learn the machinery. Tenders, empanelment, DPRs, EMDs, the Deep Tech Startup Policy route that lets the state buy pilots without an open tender. You do not need to know this on day one. You do need to be the sort of person who has it figured out by month three.

Get the first pilot signed. One department, one pilot, ninety days. That first reference is what every deal after it is built on.

Come back with a point of view. What we should build next, where we are l

📌 Sales Lead, Business to Government (Chennai)
🏢 Cognire
📍 Chennai