Mid-tier IT services company Tech Mahindra said it has hired more than 100 local employees at its Alpharetta office in suburban Atlanta to staff a project from a US-based company.
Tech Mahindra joins larger peers such as Infosys, Wipro in ramping up local hiring in the largest software export market in the US.
The company said it is one of the attempts to make Atlanta one of the largest offices in North America.
Tech Mahindra is also engaging with startups in Atlanta and focusing on co-innovation or development of joint go-to-market products with the local startups especially in next-generation technologies, solutions and platforms.
With these 100 Americans joining the company, the company's total headcount at Alpharetta's office will become 600.
The company said in a statement that it employs more than 2,000 US citizens across 19 states different locations and "actively recruiting from leading universities across North America".
"We are proud of Tech Mahindra and its success here in Alpharetta. Tech Mahindra is part of the reason Alpharetta has become known as the Technology City of The South," said David Belle-Isle, the Mayor of Alpharetta.
Arvind Malhotra, Global Head, Strategic Accounts at Tech Mahindra, said the company was "thrilled that it could source so much qualified local talent from the Atlanta area and expects to grow further in sync with the expansion of operations in the region.