Software Engineer - Model API Platform

Sarvam AI is developing India's sovereign AI platform, focusing on research, models, infrastructure, and applications. The engineering team is responsible for building and maintaining a high-performance API platform that handles millions of requests daily, including speech and vision APIs. The role involves working on core services, optimizing latency, and ensuring reliability in a fast-paced environment, with a focus on real-time audio and model-serving pipelines.

The Software Engineer will own specific platform components, such as streaming layers or speech pipelines, from design to operation. Responsibilities include improving performance, managing incident response, and making system-level decisions based on first principles. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, low-latency services, and experience with containerized deployment and observability tools.

This position is based on-site in Bengaluru, full-time, and involves close collaboration with senior engineers and teams working on AI infrastructure. Candidates should have 4-6 years of experience in backend systems, strong knowledge of networking, concurrency, and databases, and proficiency in Python and Golang. The role offers an opportunity to work on impactful AI solutions for India, with high ownership and technical challenge.