Bengaluru, Karnataka, India On-site Employment

Sarvam AI is hiring a Backend Engineer, Chanakya

Responsibilities

  • Architect and develop backend infrastructure for AI components such as action servers, document processing workflows, agent-based systems, natural language to command interfaces, and on-premise deployment tooling
  • Create reliable and scalable API layers that integrate AI models with client applications and internal operational platforms
  • Develop systems to ingest and process unstructured data including PDFs, audio transcripts, image metadata, and geospatial data streams
  • Engineer solutions optimized for restricted environments—lightweight, containerized, low-dependency, and auditable systems operable without direct developer involvement
  • Produce readable, tested, and documented code to ensure maintainability by other engineers and operational teams
  • Work closely with frontend developers, data scientists, and machine learning operations to deliver fully functional AI components from concept to deployment
  • Assist deployment engineers with debugging, operational tool development, and real-world issue resolution

Other

We seek candidates who can drive the outcomes outlined in this role, not just those who meet every listed requirement. If you're motivated by this challenge and believe you can deliver, we encourage you to apply.

About company
Sarvam AI

We're building toward a future where AI is widely accessible to everyone in India. With a world-class team of researchers and experts, we're dedicated to developing AI that gets India. What excites us is the chance to build and shape this technology to reflect how the country thinks, speaks, reasons, and solves problems.

We want India to embrace the most important technological shift of our time with confidence and control. Our ambition is to build foundational components and apply them to the country's unique needs. To this end, we've built a full-stack AI platform, with everything developed, deployed, and governed entirely in India.

We believe the real value of our research work will come from everyday use. That means translating our research into compelling products and applications that can be put to work by enterprises, governments and developers.

Sovereign AI is a nationwide, collective effort. With AI opening the door to a new builder era, we want to help catalyze momentum in India. It starts by powering the ecosystem with cost-efficient, high-quality models and tools, so developers, researchers, builders, and startups can create with full agency. The goal is to enable creation at scale by putting state-of-the-art AI in the hands of the community.

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Job Details
Department Engineering
Category backend
Posted 4 months ago