Sarvam is building the bedrock of Sovereign AI for India. The company is developing India's full-stack sovereign AI platform, building across research, models, infrastructure and applications with a singular focus on making AI genuinely work for India. Sarvam works with leading enterprises and public institutions and is backed by Lightspeed, Peak XV, and Khosla Ventures. Sarvam partners with India's leading brands, including Tata Capital, SBI Life, CRED, IDFC, and LIC.
About the RoleYou will work across the full lifecycle of vision-language model (VLM) development — data, training, evaluation, and production. The team's scope will evolve as the field does; we want engineers who are comfortable with that.
What You'll DoDesign and run training and fine-tuning pipelines for large vision-language models on GPU clusters
Build multimodal data pipelines — ingestion, filtering, deduplication, synthetic generation, and quality assurance
Implement and experiment with new architectures and training techniques from research
Build evaluation harnesses, benchmarks, and automated regression tracking
Optimise models for inference — quantisation, batching, and serving infrastructure
Build robust pipelines and integrations that put vision model capabilities in the hands of end users
Translate real-world problems into well-scoped ML tasks with the right data and evaluation strategy
Work directly with clients to understand their use cases — document processing, visual search, form extraction — and own the solution end to end
Build production-grade systems on top of Sarvam Vision and open-source models: multimodal pipelines, retrieval-augmented workflows, and structured output extraction
Debug and improve deployed solutions — latency, accuracy, edge cases, and integration with client infrastructure
Strong Python and PyTorch — comfortable reading and modifying model internals
Hands-on experience training or fine-tuning large models, including debugging broken runs
Experience building data pipelines at scale
Solid grounding in transformer architectures and modern training techniques
Comfort with ambiguity — the roadmap is not fully pre-specified
Strong focus on secure coding practices, code quality, and system reliability
Undergraduate degree in a technical discipline (CS, statistics, physics, or equivalent)
Experience with vision-language models or multimodal systems
Distributed training (FSDP, DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM)
Post-training methods — RLHF, DPO, or alignment techniques
Inference optimisation — quantisation, distillation, serving
Prior exposure to vision-based AI systems or document processing pipelines
Contributions to open-source projects or a solid GitHub portfolio
Sarvam is a fast-moving, high talent-density team building full-stack AI for India, working on problems that push the frontiers of AI with real population-scale impact.
Work alongside researchers, engineers, builders, and business leaders who move fast and hold each other to a very high bar
High ownership and high impact, from day one
Everything we do is AI-first, from the way we build and ship to the way we think about problems
You can work on problems that could change how an entire country learns, works, and communicates
If you want to work on problems at the frontier of AI in India, Sarvam is the place to be.
Skills Required
- Strong Python and PyTorch experience, comfortable reading and modifying model internals
- Hands-on experience training or fine-tuning large models, including debugging failed runs
- Experience building data pipelines at scale (ingestion, filtering, deduplication, QA)
- Solid grounding in transformer architectures and modern training techniques
- Strong focus on secure coding practices, code quality, and system reliability
- Undergraduate degree in a technical discipline (CS, statistics, physics, or equivalent)
- Experience with vision-language models or multimodal systems
- Distributed training experience (FSDP, DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM)
- Post-training methods or alignment techniques (RLHF, DPO)
- Inference optimisation experience (quantisation, distillation, serving)
- Prior exposure to vision-based AI systems or document processing pipelines
- Contributions to open-source projects or a solid GitHub portfolio
What We Do
We are an AI/ML research and development company on a mission to build reliable, performant, enterprise-grade AI systems at scale for India. We are committed to build the full-stack for generative AI for the rich & diverse landscape of India, mainly investing in: 1) Models: developing both efficient large scale Indic language models as well as bespoke enterprise models 2) Platform: building an enterprise-grade platform that empowers organisations to develop and ship creative and performant genAI applications at scale 3) Ecosystem: contributing to open-source models and datasets, as well as leading efforts for large scale data curation in public-good space
