ML Researcher, Foundational Models
About Sarvam
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 Role
You'll work on the open-ended questions that decide what our next models look like. This is not a fine-tuning role. It's not an "apply known recipes" role. We're looking for a researcher who can take a vague hunch about architecture, optimization, data composition, or training dynamics, design the right ablations, run them at meaningful scale, and turn the result into a decision that ships in a production training run.
You will have direct access to large compute and a tight feedback loop with the engineers building our training stack and data pipelines. You will be expected to disagree with the team and defend your reasoning with evidence.
What You’ll Do
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