About Chariot
Chariot is a frontier AI research lab based in Delhi, building foundational AI models. We're one of the original four teams selected under the IndiaAI Mission to build models from India. We want our models to work as well in Indian languages as the best AI systems work in English.

The Role
You'll own products and systems across Chariot, from deciding what to build for users to shipping it, measuring how it performs, and improving it. That includes full-stack product development, data and evaluation pipelines, and the backend infrastructure that serves our models at scale.
You'll work directly with users and researchers to understand problems, make product and engineering decisions, and take responsibility for the result.

What you'll work on
• Products, end to end. Understand user needs, decide which problems to solve, and build across the frontend and backend. Scope work into helpful increments, launch, and improve based on what you learn.
• Measurement. Decide what success looks like and instrument products to understand whether users are getting value.



Use usage data, feedback, and failure patterns to guide what you build next.
• Backend and inference systems. Design and operate services that serve our models reliably at scale. Own APIs, queues, storage, and GPU-backed inference workloads, with close attention to latency, throughput, cost, and reliability.
• Data pipelines. Build and own systems that collect, clean, filter, deduplicate, and prepare large volumes of text and audio for training and evaluation.
• Evaluation. Work with researchers to turn test sets and error patterns into automated, repeatable evaluations that measure model quality and catch regressions.

What we look for
• Extensive experience building and operating backend systems at scale. You've owned production services under real load, handled failures, and made informed tradeoffs around architecture, performance, reliability, and cost.
• Strong product sense. You can work through

📌 Software Engineer (New Delhi)
🏢 Chariot
📍 New Delhi