Principal Security Engineer

Sarvam; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Sarvam in Bengaluru is looking for a hands-on security leader to advance AI infrastructure security. You’ll define security strategy and design architectures, ensuring robust product security and vulnerability management.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience in BFSI/Fintech security, is skilled in threat modeling, and has participated in bug bounty programs. This role offers high ownership and significant impact, working in a fast-paced, AI-first environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience securing enterprise and BFSI/Fintech infrastructure.
• Experience with bug bounty programs, especially for fintech or cloud.
• Participation in CTFs across web, crypto, pwn, or mixed categories.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve end‑to‑end security strategy.
• Design secure architectures for AI products and API platform.
• Lead threat modeling for AI products and data systems.
• Set up systems to find and validate vulnerabilities.
• Secure cloud infrastructure and integrate security checks.

Skills

Enterprise security

BFSI/Fintech security

Threat modeling

Vulnerability remediation

Job description

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.