Principal Security Engineer
Sarvam AI
Bengaluru, IndiaPosted 4 months ago
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Skill Required
EngineeringSecurity EngineersecurityCD pipelinesdesigningbuildingfintechTestNGdesignCI/CDCloudAPIsIAMCICDAIFulltime
Key highlights
- High ownership and high impact role
- AI-first approach in all aspects of work
- Work with leading enterprises and public institutions
- Backed by Lightspeed, Peak XV, and Khosla Ventures
Role overview
Sarvam is building the bedrock of Sovereign AI for India, developing a full-stack sovereign AI platform across research, models, infrastructure, and applications. The company partners with leading enterprises and public institutions and is backed by Lightspeed, Peak XV, and Khosla Ventures. Sarvam AI is seeking a hands-on security leader to own security strategy, product security, and security research, applying BFSI/Fintech-grade threat modeling to AI infrastructure, platforms, and products. This role involves designing architectures, finding vulnerabilities, and shipping fixes, rather than audit management.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Secure cloud infrastructure, IAM, and secrets management
- Integrate security checks into CI/CD pipelines without slowing teams down
- Improve detection and response readiness
Requirements
- Hands-on experience securing enterprise and BFSI/Fintech infrastructure
Nice to have
- Participated in CTFs across web, crypto, pwn, or mixed categories
- Participated in bug bounty programs, especially private programs for fintech, cloud, or infrastructure companies
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
- 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
- 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
- If you want to work on problems at the frontier of AI in India, Sarvam is the place to be