Databricks is planning to double its analysis and growth (R&D) employees in India by the tip of this yr in an effort to speed up the event of recent capabilities and huge language fashions (LLMs).
“This yr, we plan to rent an extra 100-plus R&D engineers to strengthen our capabilities,” Vinod Marur, senior vice chairman of Engineering at Databricks, mentioned throughout a media briefing.
The information lakehouse platform supplier opened its R&D hub in Bengaluru in 2023, and since then, it has employed round 100 engineers to assist the division.
The India R&D workforce, in keeping with Marur, contributes to the event of LLMs, new capabilities such because the Lakeflow Join, and aids in infrastructure administration for enterprise clients.
