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
This is the most senior individual contributor role in Sarvam’s field engineering function. The Principal FDSE owns the technical relationship with our most strategic enterprise accounts, from architecture and deployment to escalation resolution and long-term platform adoption.
You will work at the intersection of AI-PC hardware (NPU, SLM), enterprise fleet automation, and solution architecture, navigating cross-OEM interoperability challenges and setting the technical direction for how Sarvam’s on-device AI platform deploys and runs at scale in enterprise environments.



You will operate with full autonomy on complex engagements and serve as the highest technical escalation point in the field, feeding hard-won platform intelligence directly back to product and engineering.
You will co-own the most ambitious on-device AI problem in India: building sovereign models that run at the silicon level across devices. You will be embedded with silicon partners like Qualcomm, Intel, HP, Apple, and NVIDIA, turning research breakthroughs into production-grade optimisations that serve 1.5 billion Indians at minimum latency. You will architect the GTM, Product, and Forward Deployment Engineering motion from tuning to agentic orchestration and client deployment. This is not a feature team; it is a platform-defining role. If you want to build the infrastructure layer that makes AI truly accessible across every laptop, phone, glasses, and car in India, this role is for you.

What You’ll Do
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📌 Principal Forward Deployed Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 SARVAM
📍 Bengaluru