Forward Deployed Software Engineer | 2-5 years

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

We are looking for high-agency engineers who can architect and build production-grade solutions using generative AI and agentic systems. As an FDSE at Sarvam, you will work directly with customers and product teams, understand their problems deeply, and ship real solutions fast — not prototypes or demos, but things that run in production.

This is not a single opening. We have multiple positions across Samvaad, API Dashboard, Content Studio, and ARYA — and we will match you to the team where your skills and interests fit best.

What You'll Do

The specifics depend on which product team you join. Here is what ownership looks like across each:

Samvaad

• Build, deploy, monitor, and evaluate conversational AI agents across channels — Voice, WhatsApp, website (voice and chat), and in-app — integrating them deeply into client systems and workflows

• Scope and design end-to-end technical solutions for client requirements, translating business needs into clean, production-ready architectures

• Own client engagements from kickoff to go-live: manage technical communication, build strong client relationships, and keep delivery on track

• Instrument and improve deployed agents: debug failure modes, tune prompts, and iterate on agent behaviour based on real usage data

• Work closely with product and research to bring new model capabilities into customer-facing features quickly

API Dashboard

• Build plugins, integrations, and developer-facing tooling that make Sarvam APIs easy to use and powerful to build on

• Contribute to open-source projects — writing plugins and extensions that add native support for Sarvam models across the developer ecosystem

• Own the developer experience end-to-end — from API design to documentation to onboarding flows

• Build and maintain applications that showcase Sarvam's APIs in real-world use cases

Content Studio

• Own end-to-end deployment of Sarvam's dubbing and live translation APIs into client and partner production environments — from scoping and integration to go-live and ongoing support

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact with clients: navigate integration requirements, debug live issues, unblock partners, and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Prototype quickly for ambiguous or novel client requirements; build managed service delivery pipelines where standard integrations don't fit, across dubbing and document translation

• Contribute to platform engineering (f