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Biomedical Engineering is a developing field. In India, it is still at a very nacent stage. Biomedical all together is a very vast field with several domains. The jobs for Biomedical Engineer are broadly divided into following:
1. Research and Development: If you want to pursue a Ph.D. and then further enter the research field (academic as well as industry) - This field has enormous potential and lots of money, but currently in India very few companies are doing RnD. Internationally it has a very huge scope.
2. Sales: Dealing with sale of medical equipment - The pay from sales team varies from companies to companies, but in the end the incentives can be quite good if you are good ATIT.
3. Service: Servicing of the sold equipment. The starting pay like sales is very low, which gradually increases with time. But you need to be ready to travel too.
4. Application specialist: You need to be really good at something for applying for this. The role of person with this profile is generally installing devices and providing trainings and demos.
5. Academics: Teaching is always a well-paid and well reputed job.
6. Hospital In house Engineers: Now a days all the hospital have at least one (bigger hospitals have a separate department) in-house biomedical engineer to make sure any machine is not down for a long time
There are various opportunities after doing Biomedical Engineering if you are ready to explore and adapt as per the job profile requirements. The pay might not be great to start with but eventually you can surely make some good money. If you have any further queries or specific questions feel free to message me. Best regards.