Enterprise AI company Findability Sciences , which helps drive digital transformation for legacy companies, is looking to double its current India headcount of 130-odd employees by the end of this year. The Boston-headquartered company has an AI development centre in Aurangabad, as well as a centre in Mumbai.
"Our hiring is driven by the uptick in AI services and solutions that we're seeing an explosion of. Practically every organisation is looking for AI-led digital transformation, and we see India continuing to be the hub," Anand Mahurkar, founder and CEO, Findability Sciences, told ET.
India offers robust skill sets in the statistics and computer programming domain, a focus point for the company's hiring, Mahurkar said during a recent visit to India.
"We will also be hiring domain experts so that we can deploy AI in retail or AI in manufacturing or AI in insurance," he said.
The company, which saw 85% revenue growth in 2021, is looking at 100% growth by the end of this year. It is also looking to increase its customer base in India.
The firm is looking to smaller cities for potential talent, seeing them as hubs to develop data science and machine learning skills, and is also looking to hire more women in data science.
"We have developed a programme called Findability Certified Professionals (FCP), which we've tested for two years on all our incoming staff; we are now using it on our customers because AI awareness and fluency are very important. We are looking to scale up this programme to create more data scientists in the market," Mahurkar said.The India operations currently contribute about 30% to the company's revenue. Its joint venture with Soft Bank offers a software product developed by Findability Sciences for the Japanese market along with investments in India for the innovation centre in Aurangabad.
"Our hiring is driven by the uptick in AI services and solutions that we're seeing an explosion of. Practically every organisation is looking for AI-led digital transformation, and we see India continuing to be the hub," Anand Mahurkar, founder and CEO, Findability Sciences, told ET.
India offers robust skill sets in the statistics and computer programming domain, a focus point for the company's hiring, Mahurkar said during a recent visit to India.
"We will also be hiring domain experts so that we can deploy AI in retail or AI in manufacturing or AI in insurance," he said.
The company, which saw 85% revenue growth in 2021, is looking at 100% growth by the end of this year. It is also looking to increase its customer base in India.
The firm is looking to smaller cities for potential talent, seeing them as hubs to develop data science and machine learning skills, and is also looking to hire more women in data science.
"We have developed a programme called Findability Certified Professionals (FCP), which we've tested for two years on all our incoming staff; we are now using it on our customers because AI awareness and fluency are very important. We are looking to scale up this programme to create more data scientists in the market," Mahurkar said.The India operations currently contribute about 30% to the company's revenue. Its joint venture with Soft Bank offers a software product developed by Findability Sciences for the Japanese market along with investments in India for the innovation centre in Aurangabad.
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