Live tracker · Last updated 9 August 2026 · Every currently-open vacancy across the 23 IITs — faculty, non-teaching and project staff. We refresh this page weekly rather than publishing a new post each time, so bookmark it. Deadlines already past are removed at each refresh.
Start here: the number that explains IIT hiring
Two roles advertised in the same week, by the same institute system.
IIT Delhi is paying up to ₹2.5 lakh a month for a contract Head of Design and Manufacturing. IIT Hyderabad is paying ₹18,000 a month for a Project Assistant who needs a first-class B.Tech in mechanical, aerospace or automotive engineering. IIT Palakkad is paying ₹17,500 a month for a part-time sports coach.
That is roughly a 14× spread, and it is the single most useful thing to understand before you apply anywhere on this page. The IITs run two parallel labour markets: a small number of senior contract and consultant roles paid at something close to industry rates, and a very large number of project and research posts paid at government stipend scales that have barely moved in years. A first-class B.Tech graduate can earn more than ₹18,000 a month almost anywhere. That is why research-group staffing is a permanent problem, and it is why so many of the listings below are re-advertisements.
None of which means don't apply. A JRF position is a route into a PhD, a lab and a supervisor — and for many people that is the actual product, not the stipend. Just go in knowing which market you are entering.
Closing in the next seven days
If you only read one section, read this one. All deadlines are 2026 unless stated.
| Deadline | IIT | Role | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Aug | BHU Varanasi | 28 Group A posts — Assistant Registrar, Sr Technical Officer, Librarians, Systems Analysts, Engineers, Hindi Officer, Sports Officers (Advt 02/2026-27) | Non-teaching |
| 10 Aug | Goa | JRF — 2D material deformation modelling (ANRF), ₹37,000 + HRA | Project |
| 10 Aug | Ropar | JRF, Mathematics — Hawkes processes, ₹37,000 + HRA | Project |
| 10 Aug | Gandhinagar | Part-Time Consultant Psychiatrist; Library Professional Trainee | Non-teaching |
| 10 Aug | Hyderabad | JRF — integrated converter design | Project |
| 10 Aug | Kharagpur | Technical Assistant, ₹25,000 consolidated | Project |
| 11 Aug | Gandhinagar | JRF, Electrical Engineering | Project |
| 11 Aug | Bhilai | Senior Research Fellow — droplet impact dynamics, ₹42,000 | Project |
| 12 Aug | Bhilai | Project Associate-I — DST National Quantum Mission, ₹30,000 + 18% HRA | Project |
| 12 Aug | Delhi | Consultant Type I/II, Establishment-II — ₹35,000–50,000/mo | Non-teaching |
| 12 Aug | Palakkad | Sports coaches (multi-sport), PTI, Gym Instructor — ₹17,500–40,000/mo | Non-teaching |
| 12 Aug | Jammu | JRF / Project Assistant — medical vision-language models (ANRF) | Project |
| 12 Aug | Gandhinagar | Program Associate-I, Student Affairs (contract) | Non-teaching |
| 13 Aug | Indore | Laboratory Engineer, 2 posts (outsourced) | Non-teaching |
| 13 Aug | Jammu | English Instructor (contract) | Non-teaching |
| 14 Aug | Delhi | Consultant, Chemistry Department (lab support) | Non-teaching |
| 14 Aug | Jammu | Various direct-recruitment / deputation posts (already extended once) | Non-teaching |
| 14 Aug | Indore | JRF — high-entropy solder alloys | Project |
| 14 Aug | Roorkee | JRF, Electronics & Communication (walk-in) | Project |
| 15 Aug | Patna | Research Associate I/II/III — quantum communications, ₹58,000–67,000 + HRA | Project |
| 15 Aug | ISM Dhanbad | Assistant Registrar, 3 posts — Level 10 (₹56,100–1,77,500) | Non-teaching |
| 15 Aug | Bhilai | Project Engineer ×2 — ambulance software; IoT protocol verification, ₹40,000–75,000 | Project |
| 15 Aug | Jammu | Engineer, TPQA consultancy — 30 posts; plus JRF (microfluidic ML) and Research Associate | Project |
| 15 Aug | Indore | JRF — duplex stainless steel, ₹37,000 + HRA | Project |
| 15 Aug | Hyderabad | JRF — liver-on-chip, Biomedical Engineering | Project |
| 15 Aug | Gandhinagar | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Materials Engineering | Project |
| 16 Aug | Indore | JRF/SRF — wireless communications | Project |
| 16 Aug | Gandhinagar | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Electrical Engineering | Project |
Faculty positions
Most IIT faculty recruitment is rolling — applications are accepted continuously and screened in batches, so there is no deadline to miss. The exception this month is IIT Guwahati, which is running a dated drive.
| IIT | Position | Deadline | Advt / notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guwahati | Assistant Professor Grade I/II, ~15 departments | 31 Aug 2026 | IITG/2026/FA-ADVT/01 · Grade II Level 10/11, Grade I Level 12 |
| Madras | Assistant Professor, ~40 posts across 18 departments | 15 Oct 2026 | IITM/R/1/2026 · Grade II min basic ₹70,900; Grade I ₹1,01,500 |
| Bombay | Rolling faculty recruitment, all departments | Rolling | Advt L-10/25-26. IEOR runs a separate batch to 31 Dec 2026 |
| Delhi | Assistant Professor Gr I/II; Associate & Full Professor; special drive for SC/ST/OBC-NCL/PwBD/EWS; half-time foreign faculty | Rolling | Four separate open advertisements |
| Kanpur | Rolling faculty recruitment, 20+ departments | Rolling | — |
| BHU Varanasi | Assistant Professor, rolling | Rolling | IIT(BHU)/FA/Rolling Advt/1/2026 |
| Gandhinagar | Assistant / Associate / Full Professor; Professor of Practice | Rolling | Professor of Practice applications by email |
| Jammu | Professor / Associate / Assistant Professor, all departments | Rolling | IITJMU/Faculty/01/2026 · includes Ramanujan and DST-INSPIRE tracks |
| Palakkad | Assistant Professor Gr I/II, Data Science | Rolling to 31 Dec 2026 | IITPKD/R/F/03/2026 · Level 10–12 |
Not currently open: IIT Indore's faculty drives closed on 3 August. IIT Bhubaneswar's rolling advertisement has not been refreshed since July 2025. IIT Hyderabad has no open faculty call. IIT Roorkee's faculty page returned a 404 when we checked.
Non-teaching and administrative
This is the category most people miss, and it is where the permanent government pay scales live. A Level 10 post starts at ₹56,100 and runs to ₹1,77,500.
| IIT | Role | Posts | Deadline | Pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BHU Varanasi | Group A cadre — Assistant Registrar, Sr Technical Officer, Librarians, Systems Analysts, Engineers, Hindi Officer, Sports Officers | 28 | 10 Aug 2026 | Group A scales |
| Bombay | Technical Officer (Scale I), multiple departments | 4–6 | 4 Sep 2026 | Level 10, ₹56,100–1,77,500 |
| ISM Dhanbad | Assistant Registrar | 3 | 15 Aug 2026 | Level 10 |
| ISM Dhanbad | Junior Coaching Assistant — table tennis, cricket, basketball | 3 | 3 Sep 2026 | Level 3 |
| Delhi | Consultant, Establishment-II | — | 20 Aug 2026 | ₹50,000–1,00,000/mo |
| Bhubaneswar | ERP Implementation Architect (contract) | — | 23 Aug 2026 | — |
| Bhubaneswar | Assistant Executive Engineer (contract) | — | 17 Aug 2026 | — |
| Indore | Yoga Instructor (part-time, walk-in) | — | 17 Aug 2026 | — |
| Palakkad | Apprentice Trainees (NATS) | Multiple | 21 Aug 2026 | — |
| Goa | Sports coaches, Gymkhana (walk-in 17 Aug) | 5 | Rolling | ₹300/hour |
Project and research staff
Over forty posts are open across the system. Rather than list every one, here is where the volume is — full listings are on each institute's own page.
| IIT | What is open | Deadlines |
|---|---|---|
| Roorkee | Twelve posts — SRF, Research Associate, JRF, Research Assistant, Scientist, Lab Assistant, IPR Chair, and a Postdoctoral Fellow on an HPV project at ₹80,000/month. Several are walk-ins. | 12–31 Aug |
| Gandhinagar | Ten-plus — JRF, Project Associate II, and five Post-Doctoral Fellow posts across EE, Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Materials and Physics | 10–30 Aug |
| Jammu | Six, including 30 Engineer posts on a TPQA consultancy project — the largest single headcount on this page | 12–30 Aug |
| Hyderabad | Eight — Research Associate-I (₹58,000 + 30% HRA), four JRFs, a postdoc, a Project Manager at ₹60,000–80,000/mo, and a CFD Project Assistant | 10–25 Aug |
| Bhilai | Four — Quantum Mission Project Associate, two Project Engineers at ₹40,000–75,000, and an SRF | 11–15 Aug |
| Indore | Four JRF/SRF posts — astrophysics ("AGNI"), wireless comms, duplex stainless steel, high-entropy solder alloys | 14–31 Aug |
| Kharagpur | JRF (ECE/EE/CS) and a Technical Assistant at ₹25,000 consolidated | 10, 24 Aug |
| Patna | Research Associate I/II/III, quantum communications — PhD required | 15 Aug |
| Ropar | JRF, Mathematics — Hawkes processes | 10 Aug |
| Goa | JRF — 2D material deformation modelling | 10 Aug |
| Bombay · Delhi · Bhubaneswar | Institute Post-Doctoral Fellowships, open year-round. Bombay and Delhi both pay ₹80,000/month plus HRA and a ₹1 lakh annual contingency grant | Rolling |
Why this matters. Look at the postdoc numbers next to the JRF numbers. A postdoctoral fellow at IIT Bombay or Delhi earns ₹80,000 a month; a JRF on a funded project earns ₹37,000. The gap between those two rungs is larger than the gap between a JRF and no job at all — which is a reasonable argument for treating the JRF years as a route to the PhD rather than as employment in itself.
What we could not check this week
We would rather name the gaps than quietly present a partial list as complete. Four institutes could not be verified properly:
- IIT Dharwad — the site refused every connection attempt across paths and protocols. This looks like firewall blocking rather than an outage. No vacancies reportable.
- IIT Mandi — the recruitment page returns HTTP 403. An eleven-post batch was advertised earlier in 2026 and we could not confirm whether it is still open.
- IIT Tirupati — the careers page is an empty client-rendered shell. Individual advertisements found elsewhere had all expired.
- IIT Jodhpur — the ERP subdomain holding the listings failed TLS verification on every attempt. Six posts (2 JRF, Junior Counselor, Project Assistant, Postdoc, Project Associate-I) with a 13 August deadline were reported elsewhere, but we could not confirm them at source and are not listing them as verified.
Two further caveats. IIT Bombay's non-teaching portal sits behind an SAP login, so more posts likely exist there than we can see. IIT Madras' project-staff portal was in scheduled maintenance during our check, and roughly ten listings were excluded because their deadlines could not be read. The IIT Jammu and IIT Bhilai entries above were read through a rendering proxy because both sites defeat direct fetching — one step removed from a direct check, and flagged accordingly.
How to read these categories
- Faculty — permanent academic posts. Rolling recruitment means no deadline pressure, but also that screening happens in batches, so applying just after a batch closes can mean a long wait. A PhD plus postdoctoral experience is effectively the floor at most IITs.
- Non-teaching — permanent government posts on Central pay levels, with pension and job security. Far more competitive per seat than the stipend-scale research roles, and advertised far less often.
- Project staff (JRF, SRF, Project Associate) — fixed-term, funded by a specific research grant, and tied to one principal investigator. Pay follows DST/ANRF norms: roughly ₹37,000 for a JRF, ₹42,000 for an SRF, ₹58,000+ for a Research Associate, ₹80,000 for an institute postdoc.
- Walk-in interviews — no application needed in advance; turn up with documents on the stated date. Common for project posts that need filling quickly.
Always apply through the institute's own portal, not through an aggregator. Every entry above was traced back to an institute advertisement wherever the site allowed it.
Apply directly — official recruitment pages
Every link below was checked on 9 August 2026. Where an institute has no stable recruitment URL, we link the homepage rather than a path that may break.
| IIT | Official page | What is listed there |
|---|---|---|
| Bombay | iitb.ac.in/career/apply | Rolling faculty, IPDF postdoc |
| Delhi | home.iitd.ac.in → Jobs @ IITD | All four faculty ads, consultant posts, IPDF |
| Madras | iitm.ac.in/careers | Rolling faculty (~40 posts, 15 Oct) |
| Kanpur | iitk.ac.in/dofa/faculty-recruitment | Rolling faculty, 20+ departments |
| Roorkee | iitr.ac.in — Project Jobs | All twelve project posts, per-post PDFs |
| Guwahati | iitg.ac.in — faculty recruitment | Assistant Professor drive, closes 31 Aug |
| Hyderabad | iith.ac.in/careers | All eight project and research posts |
| Indore | iiti.ac.in/page/recruitments | Non-teaching and four JRF/SRF posts |
| Gandhinagar | iitgn.ac.in/careers | Rolling faculty plus ten-plus project posts |
| BHU Varanasi | iitbhu.ac.in | 28 Group A posts (closes 10 Aug), rolling faculty |
| ISM Dhanbad | iitism.ac.in | Assistant Registrar ×3, Junior Coaching Assistant ×3 |
| Palakkad | iitpkd.ac.in | Data Science faculty, sports coaches, NATS apprentices |
| Patna | iitp.ac.in | Research Associate, quantum communications |
| Goa | iitgoa.ac.in | JRF, Gymkhana sports coaches |
IIT Jammu and IIT Bhilai both publish through portals that are difficult to reach from outside a browser — apply.iitjammu.ac.in and iitbhilai.ac.in respectively. Their listings are real; you may simply need a normal browser session to load them.
FAQ
How often is this tracker updated?
Weekly, on the same URL. We remove expired deadlines and add new advertisements at each refresh rather than publishing a fresh post, so the page accumulates history instead of fragmenting it. Bookmarking this page is more useful than searching each week.
What is the minimum qualification for an IIT JRF?
Typically a first-class M.Tech, M.Sc or equivalent in a relevant discipline, and for most funded posts a valid GATE, NET or equivalent national-level score. Individual advertisements vary and some relax the national-test requirement for project-specific skills, so read the advertisement rather than assuming.
Do IITs recruit non-teaching staff regularly?
Irregularly, in batches, and with little notice. IIT (BHU) advertised 28 Group A posts in one go with a short window. If you are targeting a permanent administrative post at an IIT, checking weekly is genuinely the only reliable method — which is the reason this page exists.
Which IIT pays project staff the most?
For postdoctoral positions, IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi both pay ₹80,000 a month plus HRA and a ₹1 lakh annual contingency grant through their Institute Post-Doctoral Fellowship schemes. Among current project posts, IIT Bhilai's Project Engineer roles at ₹40,000–75,000 and IIT Hyderabad's Project Manager role at ₹60,000–80,000 are the highest non-postdoc listings open right now.
Does the advertisement date matter, or only the deadline?
Only the deadline. An advertisement published in April 2026 with a 31 August deadline is still open and worth applying to; one published last week that closed on Friday is not. This tracker filters purely on deadline, which is why it includes older advertisements that other listings drop.
Method note: Every deadline on this page is on or after 9 August 2026. Entries were traced to the institute's own advertisement wherever the site was reachable; aggregator-only and proxy-read entries are flagged in the text above. Advertisement publication dates are deliberately ignored — an April advertisement with an August deadline is still open, and a July advertisement that closed last week is not. Corrections to hello@iitianvibes.com.