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title: 'Staff Engineer - Telephony at Sarvam'
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# Staff Engineer - Telephony at Sarvam

- **Company:** [Sarvam](https://feeny.ai/companies/sarvam)
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sarvam/ae7aa8a8-1f60-45f2-ac9d-09b48d4adbef

## 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.

## The Role

Samvaad is a conversational AI platform for enterprises, startups, digital natives, and governments. We are hiring hands-on technical owners who can take ambiguous problems through to reliable production systems.

At the heart of Sarvam’s conversational AI platform sits the system that lets our customers build, configure, deploy, and operate voice agents and campaigns - at scale. The platform currently powers millions of voice calls a day that are deeply personalised and understands the users. We’re looking for a Staff Engineer to own this system end-to-end. The data model. The APIs. The orchestration. The reliability. The performance. The standards we hold ourselves to. This is an IC role with the scope and authority of one - no people management, just the systems and the bar.

## What You’ll Own

- The end-to-end backend for agent, campaign, and user management - from data modeling through API design to deployment, in Python and FastAPI
- Workflow orchestration with Temporal for complex, long-running, stateful operations
- Performance and reliability for a multi-tenant SaaS platform operating at sub-second latency SLOs
- Observability - logging, metrics, tracing - so the team can debug production confidently and quickly
- Integration testing - the test infrastructure that lets us ship fast without breaking customer-facing systems
- Close collaboration with the frontend team (Next.js) to deliver an experience worthy of the underlying platform
- Setting the design-first and documentation-first engineering culture within your team - RFCs before code, decisions written down, no tribal knowledge

## What We’re Looking For

- 8-12 years building production backend systems, with deep expertise in Python and FastAPI (or Golang)
- Must-have experience in building telephony infrastructure, primarily SIP / VoIP
- A track record of full-stack ownership - you’ve designed systems end-to-end, made the trade-offs, and operated them in production
- Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration at scale, ideally Temporal
- Built and operated high-scale distributed systems - multi-tenant, low-latency, resilient under real load
- Strong PostgreSQL and Redis fundamentals - schema design, query performance, caching strategy
- The judgment to know when to build vs. buy, when to optimize vs. ship, when to abstract vs. inline

## Nice to Have

- Experience building products on top of LLMs or AI/ML systems
- Time at an early- or growth-stage startup - comfort with ambiguity, speed, and ownership

## 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. [linkedin.com/company/sarvam-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sarvam-ai)

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