Principal Security 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

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.