Simplify Alpha has opened an AI Engineering Centre at HITEC City in Hyderabad and plans to expand its headcount to 1,000 professionals over the next two years, adding another healthcare technology operation to Telangana’s growing global innovation ecosystem.
Telangana IT Minister D Sridhar Babu inaugurated the facility on Monday in the presence of Venkatgiri Vandali, co-founder and chief executive officer of Simplify Alpha, and other members of the company’s senior leadership team. Simplify Alpha is part of Simplify Group, a healthcare technology company headquartered in Chicago.
The new centre will combine healthcare domain expertise with artificial intelligence engineering to address operational challenges faced by the US healthcare industry, according to the company’s announcement. Its planned teams will bring together AI specialists and professionals with knowledge of the US health insurance sector.
The expansion places Hyderabad’s technology infrastructure at the intersection of two specialised capabilities: engineering services and healthcare operations. Rather than functioning only as a general technology delivery office, the centre is expected to develop teams with expertise in both AI and the processes that underpin the US health insurance industry.
Speaking at the inauguration, Sridhar Babu said Telangana had brought in more than 160 Global Innovation Centres over the previous two and a half years. He said these investments had strengthened Hyderabad’s position as a hub for global innovation and specialised domain expertise.
“Our government is committed to supporting companies that bring new ideas and create opportunities. We welcome Simplify Alpha to this ecosystem,” the minister said. “Partnerships like this create high-value jobs, build local expertise and help us develop solutions for the world.”
The company’s proposed headcount expansion would make the centre a significant addition to Hyderabad’s specialised technology employment base if implemented as planned. The announcement, however, does not specify the centre’s investment size, the number of professionals initially employed, the precise hiring schedule or whether all 1,000 positions will be based at the HITEC City facility.
The move also reflects the continued importance of global capability and engineering centres to Hyderabad’s urban economy. Such facilities rely on concentrations of skilled workers, commercial office space and specialised institutional knowledge, linking the city’s built environment to service exports and international business operations.
For the company, the immediate focus will be on building engineering teams that can work across artificial intelligence and US healthcare insurance. For Telangana, the stated objective is to use such investments to expand high-value employment and deepen local expertise. The next stated milestone is the planned scaling of Simplify Alpha’s headcount to 1,000 professionals over the next two years.
