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 Team
Sarvam's research teams build our own vision-language models for OCR and structured extraction. This team builds everything around them — the serving harness that turns a 3B or 30B in-house model into a production document intelligence platform.
The bet is specific: with the right harness — routing, decomposition, retries, verification, ensembling, layout awareness, confidence calibration — a small sovereign model should match or beat what teams today get from frontier hosted models like Gemini Flash, at a fraction of the cost and fully within India.



Closing that gap is an engineering problem, and it is this team's problem.
We run against the full messiness of Indian documents at population scale: PAN and Aadhaar, bank statements, GST filings, insurance and medical reports, 60-page
contracts, legal filings and RFPs — across languages, scan quality, and layouts that were never designed to be machine-read.
Stack: Go, Python, Temporal, REST, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, object storage, OpenTelemetry-based observability.
About the Role
You will build and own services inside the document intelligence harness — the layer that sits between our vision models and the enterprises consuming them. A single 100- page document turning into clean structured JSON involves ingestion, page-level fan out, model inference, post-processing, validation, and assembly, all of which has to be durable, observable, and quick. You will own pieces of that path end to end.
This is a build role early in

📌 Backend Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 SARVAM
📍 Bengaluru