Software Engineer - Model API Platform
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
Sarvam's model APIs (ASR, TTS, Vision, LLM, Translate) are how developers and enterprises ship products on our foundation models. The platform handles tens of millions of API calls every day, over HTTP and WebSockets, with metering, billing, prepaid wallets and rate-limiting all part of the same stack.
We are hiring a Software Engineer to own major parts of this platform end to end, working closely with the Staff Engineer who leads its architecture. You will take an area such as speech to text pipeline,or text to speech pipeline, and be accountable for its reliability, performance and end-to-end latencies. This role is for someone who is obsessed with latencies, optimizes services and network paths to shave off milliseconds, ships fast, reasons from first principles, and treats AI as the default w
