Uber will open two new technology centres in Bengaluru and Hyderabad by the end of 2027, with combined capacity for around 9,600 employees and a clear tilt toward AI, machine learning and platform engineering roles. The announcement was made by CEO Dara Khosrowshahi during a town hall at the company’s Bengaluru office on May 14, 2026, as part of his ongoing visit to India.
The Bengaluru centre will come up in Bellandur on the Outer Ring Road corridor, covering around 1.1 million square feet and accommodating about 5,000 employees. The Hyderabad campus will be located in Nanakramguda and will span over 900,000 square feet, accommodating around 4,600 employees. Together, the two centres will add nearly two million square feet of engineering infrastructure, placing the expansion among Uber’s most significant long-term engineering investments outside the United States.
Uber currently employs around 3,500 people in India. The new campuses will nearly triple that figure over the next few years.
“This expansion reflects our long-term commitment to India,” an Uber spokesperson said, adding that India is “one of its most important global markets” and that the new teams are tasked with “solving mobility challenges at a global scale,” building products “from India, for the world.”
Hiring will span generative AI, applied machine learning, autonomous vehicle operations, back-end infrastructure and platform engineering. A significant share of the new roles will focus on AI and applied machine learning, in line with Uber’s broader bet on AI-led product development and autonomous mobility.
The announcement comes just a day after Uber revealed plans for its first sovereign data centre in India, in partnership with the Adani Group. The facility is expected to go live in the fourth quarter of 2026 and will support data-heavy operations, including AI workloads, real-time analytics and localised data processing. Together, the campuses and the data centre signal a coordinated India strategy, building both compute infrastructure and engineering talent density in the country.
The expansion places Uber alongside a growing list of global tech companies, including Microsoft, Google, Wells Fargo, Walmart and Goldman Sachs, that have been scaling India GCCs significantly over the past 18 months. Bengaluru and Hyderabad continue to dominate this wave, hosting more than 60% of India’s GCC headcount according to industry estimates.
