• Tesla is hiring for roles based in Mumbai, India.
• The recruitment efforts come just days after Elon Musk met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
• Tesla has long sought to break into India, the world's third-largest auto market.

Tesla is amping up its recruitment efforts in India just days after the country's prime minister, Narendra Modi, met with Elon Musk.

Tesla listed 13 roles based in Mumbai on its careers page. The positions were also advertised on the company's LinkedIn page on Monday.

The roles range across three categories — vehicle service, sales and customer support, and operations and business support.

All the listings show that the jobs, which are a mix of full time and part time roles, are based out of suburban Mumbai.

The listings also hinted at the opening of a Tesla store and a delivery center in India. For instance, the "Store Manager" listing says the new hire will be "responsible for overseeing and driving sales and sales operations."

Tesla is also hiring people for delivery operations work. Staff under this designation are expected to "oversee and coordinate administrative responsibilities at the delivery center."

Musk met with Modi in Washington on Thursday. The Indian premier also met with President Donald Trump during his two-day visit to the US.

It is unclear if Modi and Musk discussed Tesla's entry into the Indian market during their meeting. Modi wrote in an X post on Thursday that he had a "very good meeting" with the Tesla CEO.

"We discussed various issues, including those he is passionate about such as space, mobility, technology and innovation," Modi added.

Trump told reporters on Thursday that while he wasn't sure why Musk had met Modi, he assumed it was because Musk "wants to do business in India."

Representatives for Tesla did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

Tesla has been planning to enter the Indian market for close to a decade. In April 2016, the company started accepting pre-orders for its vehicles.

Then, in January 2021, Tesla registered a company in India, just weeks after the country's transport minister, Nitin Gadkari, said Tesla would launch its operations there in early 2021. India is the world's third-largest auto market.

But those plans were put on hold. Musk said in July 2021 it was difficult for Tesla to break into the Indian market because the country's "import duties are the highest in the world by far of any large country."

"Still working through a lot of challenges with the government," Musk wrote in an X post in January 2022 when asked if Tesla was still planning to launch in India.

In March, India lowered its import taxes on EVs made by companies that commit to invest at least $500 million and start making cars in the country within three years.

Musk was scheduled to visit India in April and announce Tesla's entry into the country. However, the trip was postponed at the last minute.

"Unfortunately, very heavy Tesla obligations require that the visit to India be delayed, but I do very much look forward to visiting later this year," Musk wrote in an X post in April.

• India's prime minister met with President Donald Trump this week.
• Narendra Modi said India and the US had agreed to aim to double bilateral trade to $500 billion by 2030.
• It comes amid Trump's threat of "reciprocal" tariffs on US trading partners.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a new and rather familiar name for his vision for the country: "MIGA."

In a press briefing with President Donald Trump on Thursday, Modi tweaked his US counterpart's famed slogan, saying he wanted to "Make India Great Again."

"When America and India work together, that is, when it's MAGA plus MIGA, it becomes MEGA. A MEGA partnership for prosperity," he said, adding that India and the US had agreed to work toward doubling bilateral trade to $500 billion by 2030.

Modi's visit came as Trump outlined his plans to impose "reciprocal" tariffs on trading partners, including India.

As of 2024, the US is one of India's largest trade partners. US goods trade with India stood at an estimated $129.2 billion in 2024, per the Office of the United States Trade Representative.

But Trump took aim at what he called India's "very strong" tariffs that "limit US access" to the local market.

"We are, right now, a reciprocal nation," Trump said. "Whatever India charges, we're charging them."

He said that going forward he and Modi wanted a "level playing field" regarding tariffs and that they had agreed to a deal for India to import more American oil and gas.

Trump added that the US would also be increasing military sales to India and was "paving the way" to provide the country with F-35 fighter jets.

India's benchmark indices dropped on Friday as investors' concerns over tariffs mounted.

Under Modi's leadership, India has emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic as one of the world's fastest-growing economies, spurred partly by a large, youthful workforce, significant public infrastructure investment, and a growing IT and services sector.

The Indian economy grew at a rapid rate of 8.2% in the financial year 2023 to 2024, boosted by investment in infrastructure and a rise in household investments in real estate, per the World Bank.

The World Bank projects India will remain among the world's fastest-growing major economies for the next two financial years, with a predicted growth rate of 6.7%.

Modi's government aims to make India a developed nation by 2047, but it faces a number of significant challenges, including high youth unemployment rates, widening economic inequality, regional disparities, a stagnant manufacturing sector, a large informal economy, and challenges in the agriculture sector.