Thyssenkrupp Automotive Technology inaugurated a new engineering centre in Pune on 8 October 2026. The site, at Solitaire Business Hub 2 in the Baner Balewadi business district, already houses more than 120 engineers. The German supplier plans to take the team past 300 people over the next few years.
The company is the automotive arm of the Thyssenkrupp group and works as a system partner to carmakers around the world. It runs four business units covering chassis, components, aftermarket and forging. In the 2024/2025 financial year it had about 28,900 employees and sales of roughly €7 billion.
What the centre will do
Engineers in Pune work across software, hardware, systems and mechanical development for the company’s international customer programmes. Their brief includes embedded systems, functional safety, cybersecurity and advanced chassis technology, with a strong focus on the next generation of steering and chassis systems. The teams sit inside the global development process rather than alongside it, working with colleagues abroad from early design through to delivery.
Viktor Molnar, chief operating officer of Thyssenkrupp Automotive Technology, has pointed to India’s deep pool of engineering and software talent as the reason for the investment. Björn Erbe, who leads research and development for the chassis business, has said Pune will operate as a fully integrated part of the company’s worldwide research and development network.
Why Pune
Few Indian cities offer an automotive supplier as much as Pune does. The city has a long established vehicle and components industry, a mature engineering and software services base, well regarded universities and a steady supply of qualified engineers. For a company whose products increasingly depend on software and electronics, that mix of mechanical heritage and coding talent is hard to find elsewhere.
Thyssenkrupp Automotive Technology’s India footprint
The Pune plans were first announced in 2025 and have been built out in stages. In the same year, Thyssenkrupp Steering signed an agreement with L&T Technology Services for a partner run software centre in Pune focused on steering technology. The new engineering centre is part of a wider India push. The company is setting up a sales team in Pune to win business with Indian vehicle makers, is using the country more heavily as a sourcing base, and has said local production could follow if it secures matching customer projects.
What it signals
Steering and chassis systems are turning into software heavy products, and suppliers are racing to secure the engineers to build them. Thyssenkrupp’s move fits a clear pattern of European auto suppliers anchoring core development work in Pune rather than treating India only as a cost centre. The link to future sales and possible manufacturing also suggests the company sees India as a market as well as a talent base.
At a glance
- Home country: Germany
- Sector: Industrial and Engineering
- City: Pune
- Date: October 2026
- Status: Operational
- Scale: More than 120 engineers, growing to over 300
Follow every new global capability centre in India on our India GCC Tracker.
