IIST Thiruvananthapuram has good placements with companies like Airbus, Adobe Systems, Quest, Phillips, Math works, Delta Electronics and Viasat visiting the campus. The placement records show that the institute is growing every year. In the year 2019 , the 51 companies visited the campus which recruited 126 students in BTech and 72 students in MTech. The highest salary was recorded to be 8.2 LPA in BTech and 14.54 LPA in MTech