US-based Castlight Health has announced its plans to expand its Research & Development (R&D) operations in India through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Castlight India, located in Hyderabad.

The new Castlight R&D centre is expected to play a key role in helping the company stay on the cutting-edge of new technologies that will propel its leading healthcare navigation offering in the US, in addition to supporting some of the company's largest global customers.

Castlight intends to continue tapping into Hyderabad's top engineering talent pool to grow the R&D centre by 30-50 per cent before the end of 2021. 

Castlight India is currently aggressively hiring for open positions in data engineering, application development, product management and more.

Castlight Senior Director of Engineering and India Head, Vijay Simha says that the entity will focus on developing leading-edge technology in the areas of cloud, machine learning, and AI to help accelerate Castlight's product innovation in digital plus high-touch healthcare navigation.