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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 Own sarvam's Intel surface end-to-end: Intel NPU via OpenVINO (Meteor Lake, Lunar Lake, vPro AI PCs), Intel integrated and discrete GPU via OpenVINO and ONNX Runtime, and x86/AMD64 CPU optimization for fallback paths. You're the technical face to Intel's ecosystem and OpenVINO team. What You’ll Do
- Land Sarvam’s edge models on Intel NPU / dGPU / iGPU inside defined SLAs
- Own the OpenVINO build/quantization recipe for the team's models, including the driver-version compatibility matrix
- Drive x86 CPU optimization for the universal fallback path - AVX-512, AMX, threading strategy.
- Own the Intel device-CI pool and regression detection across OpenVINO upgrades. What We're Looking For
- 5+ years on ML deployment with 2+ years on Intel inference stacks.
- Production OpenVINO experience including model conversion, accuracy validation post-quantization, and driver-version pinning.
- ONNX Runtime EP knowledge - when OpenVINO EP vs. native OpenVINO, when to fall back to CPU EP.
- x86 CPU profiling and optimization - VTune, perf, comfort reading hot loops at the assembly level when needed.
- AVX-512 or AMX intrinsics is a strong plus, not a must-have. Bonus Points
- Direct prior interaction with the OpenVINO team or Intel ecosystem partners.
- Custom OpenVINO operator authoring. 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.
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