Join Sarvam AI as a Principal Security Engineer to lead security strategy and architecture for foundational AI infrastructure in India.
Posted by employer 4 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 week ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
AI in the day-to-day
Sarvam is building foundational AI infrastructure focused on making AI genuinely work for India.
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Principal Security Engineer at Sarvam AI is responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive security strategy tailored to the company's AI infrastructure and products. This role requires expertise in securing BFSI and Fintech environments, with a focus on threat modeling, vulnerability management, and secure architecture design. Ideal candidates will have hands-on experience in enterprise security and a background in competitive security challenges or bug bounty programs. Sarvam AI offers a dynamic environment where high ownership and impactful work are emphasized.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 9 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Sarvam AI's career page.
- Sarvam AI has 62 other open roles including Performance Engineer, Inference, Platform Engineer - AI Infrastructure, ML Ops Engineer, Chanakya.
- 5148 active AI/ML roles on Joblaze right now.
- 526 active Cloud roles on Joblaze right now.
- 400 active API roles on Joblaze right now.
- Typical AI/ML salary we track runs $140,000–$231,000 (median $180,000, across 2237 roles). See AI/ML salary trends
Quick facts
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, API, BFSI, Cloud, Fintech, security.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Sarvam AI targets principal-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Principal Security Engineer role at Sarvam AI.
From the original posting
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.