ML Ops Engineer, Chanakya

About the Role

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 The MLOps Engineer owns the model lifecycle across all defence and strategic sector deployments — from serving infrastructure and monitoring to evaluation pipelines and environment management. You ensure the system is always on, always accurate, and always auditable. You will work across both layers: supporting Strategic Deployment Engineers in the field, and owning the model deployment infrastructure for new products being built by the product engineering team. The standards here are uncompromising — a model failure is not a UX problem, it is an operational risk.   What You'll Do • Design and operate model serving infrastructure across on-prem and cloud deployments • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for model updates, rollbacks, and evaluation-gated deployments • Monitor model performance in production — latency, accuracy drift, throughput, failure modes — and build systems that surface issues before clients do • Build evaluation infrastructure: harnesses, A/B testing, and model comparison tooling for field and lab use • Manage containerised model serving in constrained, air-gapped, and edge environments • Collaborate with Data Scientists on eval pipelines; own the infrastructure layer underneath • Create runbooks and operational playbooks that Strategic Deployment Engineers can use in the field • Own incident response for model-layer failures across all active deployments   What We're Looking For • 3–5 years in ML engineering or MLOps with at least o

Key Responsibilities

• Design and operate model serving infrastructure across on-prem and cloud deployments
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for model updates, rollbacks, and evaluation-gated deployments
• Monitor model performance in production — latency, accuracy drift, throughput, failure modes — and build systems that surface issues before clients do
• Build evaluation infrastructure: harnesses, A/B testing, and model comparison tooling for field and lab use
• Manage containerised model serving in constrained, air-gapped, and edge environments
• Collaborate with Data Scientists on eval pipelines; own the infrastructure layer underneath

Requirements & Qualifications

• Strong problem solving foundations, knowledge of modern software engineering practices, and interest in working with Sarvam AI's engineering team.

Perks & Benefits

• Official mentor support
• direct career feedback
• verified hiring progression timeline.