--- title: 'Principal Security Engineer at Sarvam' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/principal-security-engineer-sarvam-bengaluru-mhy6zm4gj5g7' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Principal Security Engineer at Sarvam - **Company:** [Sarvam](https://feeny.ai/companies/sarvam) - **Location:** Bengaluru, India - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-04-17 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sarvam/2cb7b4f9-4b09-450d-945a-78a9d597c734/application **Skills:** Threat Modeling, Security Architecture, BFSI Security, Fintech Security, Cloud Security, DevSecOps, CI/CD, Vulnerability Management, Red Teaming, Application Security, API Security, Authentication and Access Control, Secrets Management, CTF Participation, Bug Bounty Participation > Sarvam is seeking a Principal Security Engineer to own security strategy, product security, and research for its sovereign AI platform. The role involves designing secure architectures, applying BFSI-grade threat modeling, and integrating security into CI/CD pipelines to protect AI infrastructure and products. ## Job description ## 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 Sarvam AI is building foundational AI infrastructure. We're looking for a hands-on security leader who brings the rigor, threat modeling discipline, and depth of BFSI/Fintech security — and applies it to AI infrastructure, platforms, and products. You will own security strategy, product security, and security research while staying deeply technical and close to the systems you're securing. This is not an audit management role — you'll be designing architectures, finding vulnerabilities, and shipping fixes. ## What You'll Do Security Strategy & Architecture - Define and evolve Sarvam AI's end-to-end security strategy - Design secure architectures for Sarvam's products and API platform - Apply BFSI-grade threat modeling and controls to AI infrastructure - Make pragmatic risk decisions that balance research velocity with security Product & Application Security - Lead threat modeling for AI products, APIs, and data systems - Own application and API security, including auth, access control, and data isolation - Drive vulnerability discovery, remediation, and verification Systems & Processes - Set up systems and processes to proactively find and validate vulnerabilities across products and infrastructure - Perform targeted adversarial testing and red-teaming - Research emerging threats relevant to AI systems and enterprise use cases Cloud & DevSecOps - Secure cloud infrastructure, IAM, and secrets management - Integrate security checks into CI/CD pipelines without slowing teams down - Improve detection and response readiness ## What We're Looking For - Hands-on experience securing enterprise and BFSI/Fintech infrastructure - Participated in CTFs across web, crypto, pwn, or mixed categories - Participated in bug bounty programs, especially private programs for fintech, cloud, or infrastructure companies Why Sarvam? Sarvam is a fast-moving, high talent-density team building full-stack AI for India, working on problems that push the frontiers of AI with real population-scale impact. - Work alongside researchers, engineers, builders, and business leaders who move fast and hold each other to a very high bar - High ownership and high impact, from day one - Everything we do is AI-first, from the way we build and ship to the way we think about problems - You can work on problems that could change how an entire country learns, works, and communicates If you want to work on problems at the frontier of AI in India, Sarvam is the place to be. ## About Sarvam ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Sarvam is building India's full-stack sovereign AI platform, delivering state-of-the-art models and enterprise-grade applications for Indic languages. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A – $41M raised) - **Headquarters**: Bengaluru, India - **Founded**: August 2023 - **Founders**: Dr. Vivek Raghavan, Dr. Pratyush Kumar ## Core Business - Primary industry: Artificial Intelligence / Generative AI - Target customers: Enterprises, Government, Developers (B2B, B2G) - Mission: Make AI widely accessible to everyone in India by building foundational components that reflect how the country thinks, speaks, reasons, and solves problems. ## Products & Services - **Sarvam Cloud**: Fully managed, automatically scaling API platform for Indic AI capabilities. - **Speech to Text (Saaras)**: High‑accuracy ASR across 12 Indic languages. - **Text to Speech (Bulbul)**: Natural voices across 11 Indic languages. - **Translation**: State‑of‑the‑art translation across 23 languages. - **Document Digitisation (Akshar)**: Convert PDFs and images into structured data. - **Vision Models**: Image understanding and processing. - **Samvaad**: Conversational AI studio for building voice agents. - **Arya**: AI‑for‑work platform with forward‑deployed engineers for custom agent design and integration. - **Deployment Options**: Private cloud, on‑premise, hybrid, or air‑gapped environments. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private) - **Key Metric**: Total funding $41M (from Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed, Peak XV Partners) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed, Peak XV Partners - **Growth Signals**: 62 open positions across engineering, models, product, sales, and more; case studies with large‑scale deployments (50,000+ farmer feedback calls, millions of policy calls); SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, DPDP compliant. ## Competitive Advantages - **Sovereign AI**: All technology developed and operated entirely in India, with full data control and compliance with Indian data protection laws. - **Full‑stack platform**: From foundational models to enterprise agents, everything built in‑house. - **Forward‑deployed engineering**: Dedicated engineers embedded with customer teams to ensure successful delivery. - **Population‑scale impact**: Proven ability to serve millions of users in Indic languages across government and BFSI. - **Deployment flexibility**: Can run on any infrastructure, including air‑gapped for regulated industries. ## Strategic Focus - Continue building state‑of‑the‑art models and tools for Indic languages. - Expand enterprise and government adoption of conversational AI agents. - Nurture the Indian AI ecosystem by open‑sourcing models and tools. - Scale team rapidly (62 open roles) to support growing customer demand. ## Why Work Here - **Mission‑driven opportunity**: Shape AI that serves India’s linguistic and cultural diversity. - **On‑site first**: All roles are based in Bengaluru (Delhi also available), fostering deep collaboration. - **Cutting‑edge work**: Foundational model research, ML infrastructure, full‑stack product engineering. - **High‑impact culture**: Teams work directly with customers via forward‑deployed engineers, seeing immediate real‑world use. - **Backed by top investors**: Financial stability and growth runway from Lightspeed, Peak XV, and Khosla Ventures. ## Sources 1. [sarvam.ai](https://www.sarvam.ai/) 2. [sarvam.ai/about-us](https://www.sarvam.ai/about-us) 3. [sarvam.ai/careers](https://www.sarvam.ai/careers) 4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/sarvam](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sarvam) 5. 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