Forward Deployed Engineer

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’re looking for an FDE to work directly with enterprise clients integrating our platform into their business workflows. You will be embedded with clients - understanding their operational processes, configuring the platform for their needs, debugging issues end-to-end, and ensuring they achieve high-quality outcomes across their use cases.

This is a hands-on, client-facing engineering role. You’ll split time between writing code (integration scripts, platform configuration, bug fixes) and working directly with client engineering and business teams. You’ll develop deep expertise in the platform and become the trusted technical point of contact for your accounts.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own the technical arc of customer engagements, from scoping the solution through to the system running in production.

• Design end-to-end AI systems that meet real reliability, latency, accuracy, and cost constraints. Make the architectural decisions that hold up at production scale.

• Build the system yourself, across whatever the stack and product call for. Engagements range from voice and conversational systems at enterprise customers, to developer tooling around Sarvam's APIs, to translation and dubbing pipelines for media customers, to agentic workflows and the MCP servers and infrastructure that underpin them. FDSEs are hands-on engineers, not technical project managers.

• Deploy into the customer's environment, working closely with their engineering team on data, infrastructure, and integration constraints.