LeEco has announced its plan to hire more than 1,100 engineers for its India Research and Development (R&D) center by 2017.

The company plans to hire from tier-1 engineering colleges like the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) across the country. Last week, LeEco already began the freshers' campus drive in Bengaluru and garnered more than 2,000 registrations from students from top engineering colleges, according to Times of India.

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“We are humbled and excited to see the interest amongst students’ community to work with us. Many of them came to attend our test braving heavy downpour and flood like situation that Bangalore witnessed last week,” said Shrinivas Bairi, Head of LeEco India R&D.

Bairi added that the skills they are looking for among the student applicants include modem technologies, BSP, multimedia, TV Broadcast, and Internet technologies, India Today reported.

Indian R&D team will be charged with both commercialization and localization support for all the devices launched in India. The center will combine innovations and work with China and US R&D center. The company has said that it would soon also start a camera-image engineering lab for image quality, RF/antenna design and tuning lab for smart devices like smartphones.

In addition, the R&D department will help the company to meet all the local requirements, support Indian languages, follow government regulations like Panic button and GPS requirements, and comply with different carrier requirements.

Aside from developing cutting-edge technology for its smart devices, the India R&D center will also help LeEco’s e-commerce marketplace, LeMall.com, to develop data analytics and machine learning tools to improve customer experience and sales.

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