Frontend Engineer, Chanakya
Sarvam AI
Bengaluru, IndiaPosted 4 months ago
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Skill Required
EngineeringFrontend DeveloperDesign SystemTypeScriptThree.jsWebSocketTailwindbuildingEmbedded CReduxTestNGdesignReactCSSAIFulltime
Key highlights
- 3–6 years of frontend engineering experience required
- Deep React, TypeScript, and modern CSS proficiency required
- Work on AI-first problems with population-scale impact
- High ownership and high impact from day one
Role overview
Sarvam is building the bedrock of Sovereign AI for India, developing a full-stack AI platform across research, models, infrastructure, and applications to make AI work for India. The company partners with leading enterprises and public institutions and is backed by Lightspeed, Peak XV, and Khosla Ventures. The frontend engineers on this team build interfaces for Sarvam's AI stack in demanding environments, owning the frontend layer of multiple 'atoms' (replicable, deployable product components) and collaborating with backend engineers, PMs, and deployment teams. These interfaces must function in offline-first, low-bandwidth, and hardened client environments.
Responsibilities
- Design and build performant, production-grade frontend interfaces for strategic sector and enterprise AI use cases: geospatial overlays, simulation UIs, natural language access layers, ontology viewers, data ingestion dashboards, and complex enterprise workflows
- Own the frontend layer of atoms end-to-end — from component architecture to deployment in client-embedded environments
- Collaborate with backend engineers and the PM to ship complete, scoped atoms into the hands of real users
- Build for constrained environments: offline-first, low-bandwidth, limited hardware — not the idealised development environment
- Contribute to shared frontend infrastructure: component libraries, design system, and state management patterns
- Participate in field testing and client feedback loops with Strategic Deployment Engineers across strategic sector and complex enterprise accounts
Requirements
- 3–6 years in frontend engineering with shipped, production-grade products
- Deep React proficiency
- TypeScript
- Modern CSS (Tailwind or equivalent)
- Strong component architecture instincts
- State management proficiency: Zustand, Redux Toolkit, or equivalent
- Strong async data patterns
- Data visualisation experience: D3.js, Mapbox/Leaflet, Deck.gl for geospatial, Recharts, or equivalent — at least one in production
- REST and WebSocket API integration
- Sufficient backend awareness to debug across the boundary
- Performance engineering: bundle optimisation, lazy loading, and rendering performance in low-resource environments
Nice to have
- WebGL or Three.js for 3D visualisation
- Electron or desktop app experience
- Offline-first or PWA architecture
- Prior work on dashboards, command-and-control UIs, or complex enterprise tooling
Benefits
- 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
- Work on problems that could change how an entire country learns, works, and communicates
Additional details
- These are not form-and-table frontend roles
- Note: We are looking for people who can own the outcomes described here, not people who match every line of this specification. If this problem excites you and you believe you can do this work, we want to hear from you.