Meta to expand India operations, hire more for engineering a
Meta to expand India operations, hire more for engineering and AI roles
Global technology giant Meta is expanding its presence in India and would hire engineers and product specialists for artificial intelligence (AI) roles
NEW DELHI — Global technology giant Meta is expanding its presence in India
and would hire engineers and product specialists for artificial intelligence
(AI) roles.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has announced a new
office in Bengaluru.
With this move, Meta is following the path of other major
tech giants like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, which have already established
strong engineering and product teams in Bengaluru and across India.
According to a job listing on Meta’s website, the company is
hiring an engineering director who will be responsible for building a strong
technical team in Bengaluru.
This role will play a key part in shaping Meta’s long-term engineering
presence in India.
Several Meta employees on LinkedIn shared that the Bengaluru
centre is being set up by the company’s enterprise engineering team.
This team focuses on creating internal tools to enhance
productivity within Meta.
The company is also recruiting hardware engineers to support
its growing AI infrastructure, including data centre operations and custom chip
development.
Meta, which entered the Indian market in 2010, already has
offices in cities like Gurugram, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, and Bengaluru.
However, most of its workforce in the country has been
engaged in functions like sales, marketing, business development, operations,
policy, legal, and finance.
The new Bengaluru office marks a shift, as the company looks
to expand its engineering capabilities in India.
According to the Meta spokesperson, the company is looking
to hire a “small number of engineering professionals in Bengaluru.
India is Meta’s largest user market, with over a billion
people using its products, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The country has often been a testing ground for Meta’s new
features and tools. In 2020, Instagram Reels was first widely launched in India
after TikTok was banned.
Earlier this week, Google inaugurated a large campus in
Bengaluru named "Ananta," which houses teams from various divisions,
including Google DeepMind, Android, Search, Pay, Cloud, Maps, and Play.
