Meta made headlines last month for saying plans to chop 5% of its staff, controversially deeming them “low performers.” However the job cuts aren’t holding Meta again from increasing in sure geographic areas.

Meta is establishing a brand new website within the nation’s tech hub of Bengaluru (previously often called Bangalore), a number of Meta staff posted on LinkedIn this month. 

Meta is at the moment hiring for 41 positions there, based on its careers webpage, most of which had been posted over the past month. The positions are cut up between software or machine learning engineer jobs, and roles focused on designing chips for Meta’s knowledge facilities.

Meta Bengaluru is searching for an “skilled Engineering Director to construct and lead our engineering crew in India,” one in every of Meta’s job ads, which was posted three weeks in the past on LinkedIn, reads. 

The engineering director in Bengaluru will probably be liable for designing a method to rent and construct founding engineering groups, plus assist create “a imaginative and prescient for engineer groups in India,” the job advert states.

The brand new middle is a part of Meta’s Enterprise Engineering crew, based on a Meta worker’s LinkedIn post. That crew focuses on customized inside Meta instruments, fairly than on Meta’s best-known merchandise like Fb and Instagram. 

Whereas Meta has a number of present workplaces in India, together with Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Gurgaon, New Delhi, and Mumbai, most have fewer job openings and so they’re primarily for non-engineering roles. Only 1 of the 12 obtainable positions on the different areas is engineering-related, Meta’s careers web page exhibits.

A Meta spokesperson in India instructed TechCrunch that it’s recruiting for a “small variety of engineering positions in Bengaluru.”

“We repeatedly replace our location methods to assist our long-term investments,” the spokesperson mentioned.

The 41 positions in Bangalore are a small proportion of Meta’s international job postings, which at the moment complete over 1,700. However it represents a shift for Meta, which has not historically used India as an engineering hub — these positions have traditionally been based mostly in North America and Europe.

In a single instance from 2022, an Indian software program engineer made headlines after he was laid off by Meta simply two days after relocating to Canada for the job.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that Meta intends to backfill the roles it lower throughout its most up-to-date spherical of layoffs.