{"id":1020883,"date":"2026-07-14T11:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020883"},"modified":"2026-07-14T11:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:09:17","slug":"tcs-takes-on-openai-anthropic-amazon-and-microsoft-to-build-a-team-of-forward-deployed-engineers-ceo-k-krithivasan-says-we-would-be-ensuring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/14\/tcs-takes-on-openai-anthropic-amazon-and-microsoft-to-build-a-team-of-forward-deployed-engineers-ceo-k-krithivasan-says-we-would-be-ensuring\/","title":{"rendered":"TCS takes on OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon and Microsoft; to build a team of forward-deployed engineers; CEO K Krithivasan says: We would be ensuring &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is building a team of up to 8,900 forward-deployed engineers as it expands its artificial intelligence (AI) business. The move puts India&#8217;s largest IT services company in direct competition with firms such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Amazon, which are also hiring engineers to help customers adopt AI. As per a Reuters report, the company is also looking at acquisitions in AI, data security and cybersecurity. TCS CEO K Krithivasan said the company wants 1% to 1.5% of its workforce to become forward-deployed engineers (FDEs). &#8220;We would be &#8230; ensuring that we have as many as 1% to 1.5% of our associates who could be what you would call FDEs,&#8221; Krithivasan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is building a team of up to 8,900 forward-deployed engineers as it expands its artificial intelligence (AI) business. The move puts India&#8217;s largest IT services company in direct competition with firms such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Amazon, which are also hiring engineers to help customers adopt AI. As per a Reuters report, the company is also looking at acquisitions in AI, data security and cybersecurity. TCS CEO K Krithivasan said the company wants 1% to 1.5% of its workforce to become forward-deployed engineers (FDEs). &#8220;We would be &#8230; ensuring that we have as many as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020884,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020883\/revisions\/1020884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}