Google’s parent company Alphabet plans to hire top talent from life sciences and health care companies, with tech subsidiary Sidewalk Labs posting job listings for health care positions. Calico, Alphabet’s drug development subsidiary, and Verily, its life sciences arm, are also hiring in the sector. The move is part of a broader effort by Google to expand into areas like artificial intelligence that could help it compete against Facebook Inc. and Amazon Inc., which have been aggressively expanding their own AI efforts.
Google’s parent company Alphabet plans to hire top talent from life sciences and health care companies, with tech subsidiary Sidewalk Labs posting job listings for health care positions. Calico, Alphabet’s drug development subsidiary, and Verily, its life sciences arm, are also hiring in the sector. Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have maintained that Google will not become a health care company.