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 RoleThe MLOps Engineer owns the model lifecycle across all defence and strategic sector deployments — from serving infrastructure and monitoring to evaluation pipelines and environment management. You ensure the system is always on, always accurate, and always auditable.
You will work across both layers: supporting Strategic Deployment Engineers in the field, and owning the model deployment infrastructure for new products being built by the product engineering team. The standards here are uncompromising — a model failure is not a UX problem, it is an operational risk.
What You'll DoDesign and operate model serving infrastructure across on-prem and cloud deployments
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for model updates, rollbacks, and evaluation-gated deployments
Monitor model performance in production — latency, accuracy drift, throughput, failure modes — and build systems that surface issues before clients do
Build evaluation infrastructure: harnesses, A/B testing, and model comparison tooling for field and lab use
Manage containerised model serving in constrained, air-gapped, and edge environments
Collaborate with Data Scientists on eval pipelines; own the infrastructure layer underneath
Create runbooks and operational playbooks that Strategic Deployment Engineers can use in the field
Own incident response for model-layer failures across all active deployments
3–5 years in ML engineering or MLOps with at least one production LLM or ML system in continuous operation
Deep expertise in model serving: vLLM, TGI, Triton Inference Server, or equivalent; experience with quantised model formats (GGUF, AWQ, GPTQ)
Experience fine-tuning and adapting models in constrained, on-prem, or air-gapped environments, including managing data pipelines and compute limitations specific to the environment
Containerisation experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or lightweight alternatives (K3s, K0s) for constrained and edge environments; familiarity with deploying across heterogeneous hardware and infrastructure configurations
Monitoring and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent; ability to build custom eval dashboards
Python fluency; familiarity with fine-tuning workflows and model evaluation frameworks
Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling for ML pipelines: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, DVC, or similar
You've kept a production ML system running under load — and debugged it when it broke
You don't wait for things to fail; you build systems that tell you when they're about to
You write documentation that actually gets used, by people who aren't you
You treat uptime and correctness as equally non-negotiable
You understand that operational reliability is a form of trust-building
You're as comfortable optimising inference throughput as you are writing a field runbook for a deployment engineer
You take ownership of model and stack health across every active deployment — not just the ones you set up
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
- 3-5 years in ML engineering or MLOps with at least one production LLM or ML system in continuous operation
- Deep expertise in model serving (vLLM, TGI, Triton Inference Server or equivalent)
- Experience with quantised model formats (GGUF, AWQ, GPTQ)
- Experience fine-tuning and adapting models in constrained, on-prem, or air-gapped environments and managing related data pipelines
- Containerisation experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or lightweight alternatives (K3s, K0s) and deploying across heterogeneous hardware
- Monitoring and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent; ability to build custom evaluation dashboards
- Python fluency and familiarity with fine-tuning workflows and model evaluation frameworks
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling for ML pipelines such as GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, DVC or similar
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
