The extant literature has been elaborate on multiple conceptualizations of employee engagement. However, there is dearth of literature which addresses employee engagement in varied organizational contexts, one such being the context of global virtual teams (GVTs). The practitioner literature reports reduced levels of employee engagement in members of GVTs. Furthermore, it has been proposed in scholarly literature that the drivers of employee engagement might change in the context of GVTs. One such significant driver influencing employee engagement in GVTs was found to be ‘cultural intelligence’ of the GVT members. In this study, we intend to study the influence of cultural intelligence on employee engagement by testing the relationship at GVT member level and team level. The research site for this study was a global engineering, and digital technology solutions company, Cyient Ltd., headquartered in Hyderabad, India. Cyient uses GVTs to organize its work and at the time of study it had around 1500 GVTs functioning in diverse geographic locations. Data for this study was collected through a survey across Communications Business Unit of Cyient. The survey was administered to 3500 employees across several locations of which we received 827 valid responses from across 102 teams. In this study, it was found that the levels of trust in a team (both at individual and team level) partially mediated the relationship between cultural intelligence and employee engagement. It meant that apart from cultural intelligence other factors might also be effecting employee engagement in GVTs both at individual and team levels. This study empirically evaluates the relationship between cultural intelligence and employee engagement both at GVT member and GVT levels using a multilevel modeling technique.