Researcher, Vision
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 will work across the full lifecycle of vision-language model (VLM) development — data, training, evaluation, and production. The team's scope will evolve as the field does; we want researchers who are comfortable with that and can lead.
What You'll Do
• Research vision-language architectures — encoders, fusion mechanisms, pretraining objectives, and scaling behaviour
• Design training methods (pretraining, SFT, RLHF, DPO) adapted for multilingual VLMs
• Investigate data strategies — what mixtures, quality signals, and synthetic data approaches actually move the needle
• Build evaluation framewo
