General Electric to hire 1,000 pepole for Bengaluru digital hub

US multinational General Electric (GE) on Wednesday said it will hire about 1,000 techies to ramp up technology workforce at its new digital hub here.

“We will add 1,000 information technology and software professionals over the next two years to ramp up the headcount to 2,500 from 1,500 at present and accelerate the digital transformation for industry,” GE’s digital arm said in a statement here.

As the GE Digital’s largest facility worldwide in the Tech Park at Whitefield in the city’s eastern suburb, the 2-lakh square feet hub will deliver solutions on the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platform to GE’s customers to drive their productivity.

“The hub is a centre for co-creating industrial software and analytics solutions with customers and experts, aimed at solving complex business problems,” asserted the statement.

GE’s distributed operating system Predix helps customers harness the power of the IIoT and contribute to its goal of achieving $1 billion in productivity by 2020.

“Our global digital hubs are at the core of transformation into a top digital industrial firm. We will bring the best and brightest into our new facility to help us in our journey, said Jim Fowler, GE’s Chief Information Officer, on the occasion.

For the US-based behemoth, Bengaluru is one of the six key locations the world over, as the tech city is in line with its business strategy.

“As talent is our priority in advancing outcomes, we are keen to harness more of it, specialised in data sciences, analytics product development space,” noted Fowler.

 

SOURCE: PTI