Senior Performance Engineer, Intel Stack
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
Own sarvam's Intel surface end-to-end: Intel NPU via OpenVINO (Meteor Lake, Lunar Lake, vPro AI PCs), Intel integrated and discrete GPU via OpenVINO and ONNX Runtime, and x86/AMD64 CPU optimization for fallback paths. You're the technical face to Intel's ecosystem and OpenVINO team.
What You’ll Do
Land Sarvam’s edge models on Intel NPU / dGPU / iGPU inside defined SLAs
Own the OpenVINO build/quantization recipe for the team's models, including the driver-version compatibility matrix
Drive x86 CPU optimization for the universal fallback path - AVX-512, AMX, threading strategy.
Own the Intel device-CI pool
