ML Engineer
Job type: Full Time · Department: Engineering · Work type: On-Site
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with 3–5 years of experience to join our team building an enterprise-grade AI orchestration platform. You will work on our agentic execution layer that integrates large language models (LLMs), third-party tools, and task graph execution to enable complex AI-driven workflows.
Design and implement distributed microservices for AI agent orchestration
Build and optimise task graph execution engines for LLM-powered workflows
Develop integrations with multiple LLM providers and tool ecosystems
Create and maintain gRPC/REST APIs for real-time AI interactions
Implement document processing pipelines — ingestion, chunking, and vector embeddings
Build and maintain knowledge base systems with vector search capabilities
Build code interpreter sandboxes for safe AI code execution
Contribute to MCP (Model Context Protocol) server implementations
3+ years of production Python experience — async programming (asyncio), type hints, Pydantic
Backend proficiency: FastAPI or similar frameworks, gRPC & Protobuf, microservices patterns
Database experience: PostgreSQL (SQLAlchemy, migrations), Redis (caching, pub/sub, distributed locks)
Hands-on LLM API integration (OpenAI, Google AI, Anthropic) and working knowledge of embeddings and RAG
Infrastructure experience: Docker, Kubernetes basics, observability (logging, tracing)
Cloud experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure
Experience with vector databases such as Milvus or Pinecone
Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools like Temporal or Celery
Document processing experience — PDF parsing, OCR
Experience with the Bazel build system
Knowledge of MCP (Model Context Protocol)
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.
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