Castlight Health Sets up new R&D Operations Centre in Hyderabad to Expand its Presence in India

Castlight Health, Inc. a leader in healthcare navigation has announced its plans to spread out its Research & Development (R&D) operations in India through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Castlight India, situated in Hyderabad.

The new Castlight R&D center is likely to play a vital role in aiding the company stay on the cutting-edge of new technologies that would propel its leading healthcare navigation offering in the U.S., in addition to supporting some of the company's largest global customers. Castlight plans to continue tapping into Hyderabad's top engineering talent pool to develop the R&D center by 30-50 percent before the end of 2021. Castlight India is presently aggressively hiring for open positions in data engineering, application development, product management and more.

Vijay Anand, Executive Vice President of Engineering, Castlight Health says, "Castlight is driving some of the most exciting innovations in next-generation healthcare navigation, and we're excited to be able to double-down on our technical engineering talent in India. Expanding our presence in one of the largest and fastest-growing tech cities in the world gives us the ability to scale and meet the growing demand for Castlight's health navigation platform."

Vijay Simha, Senior Director of Engineering and India Head, Castlight Health states that the entity would focus on developing leading-edge technology in the areas of cloud, machine learning, and AI to aid in driving Castlight's product innovation in digital plus high-touch healthcare navigation. Castlight is a strong, mission-based company with employees who are passionate about helping people live healthier, happier lives.

Vijay adds, "We believe our people are the key to our success. We have ambitious growth plans and we know that these cannot be achieved without the right talent. We want Castlight to be the preferred destination for technical talent who will join us in our quest to help people better navigate healthcare.”

Castlight has actively maintained a strong R&D development team of more than 100 engineers in India through a previous third-party relationship established in 2014. Due to the strong integration with the Castlight engineering team in the U.S., Castlight India was able to successfully recruit nearly the entire local team, with more than 96 percent of job offers accepted.

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