Visteon opens fourth India tech centre in Goa

Visteon inaugurated its fourth India technical centre in Goa on November 1. The facility in Goa, will collaborate closely with Visteon’s technical centres in India and will support the company’s development of artificial intelligence software, advanced driver awareness systems and deep learning for autonomous vehicles.

“The Goa operations will support new technology development which has the potential to extend across a wide range of products” said Matt Cole, Senior VicePresident Product Development. “We have a market leading cockpit electronics portfolio – including clusters, telematics, displays and infotainment – and a lot of these products will be supported by Goa in the coming years,” Matt Cole said.

The new technology center in Panjim has a seating capacity of 50 with the potential for expansion. Visteon plans to fill majority of its open positions with graduates from local universities. Visteon, which recently premiered its SmartCore cockpit domain controller on the new Mercedes-Benz A-Class, is a global technology company that designs, engineers and manufactures innovative cockpit electronics products and connected car solutions for most of the world’s major vehicle manufacturers.

It is a leading provider of instrument clusters, head-up displays, information displays, infotainment, audio systems, telematics, SmartCore cockpit domain controllers, and the DriveCore autonomous driving platform. Visteon also supplies embedded multimedia and smartphone connectivity software solutions to the global automotive industry. Headquartered in Van Buren Township, Michigan, Visteon has approximately 10,000 employees at more than 40 facilities in 18 countries. Visteon had sales of $3.15 billion in 2017.