Sarvam
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SeniorPerformanceEngineer,IntelStack
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“Senior Performance Engineer, Intel Stack at Sarvam. Skills: Performance Engineering, ML Deployment, Intel Stack Optimization. Land Sarvam’s edge models on Intel NPU. Land models on Intel dGPU”
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What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years on ML deployment, 2+ years on Intel inference stacks, Production OpenVINO experience, Model conversion, Accuracy validation post-quantization, Driver-version pinning, ONNX Runtime EP knowledge, X86 CPU profiling, X86 CPU optimization
Nice to Have
AVX-512 intrinsics, AMX intrinsics, Direct prior interaction with OpenVINO team, Direct prior interaction with Intel ecosystem partners, Custom OpenVINO operator authoring
What You'll Do.
Land Sarvam’s edge models on Intel NPU
Land models on Intel dGPU
Land models on Intel iGPU
Own OpenVINO build recipe
Own OpenVINO quantization recipe
Manage driver-version compatibility matrix
Drive x86 CPU optimization
Optimize universal fallback path
Optimize threading strategy
Own Intel device-CI pool
Detect regression across OpenVINO upgrades
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Intel ecosystem; OpenVINO team
Full 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 Own sarvam's Intel surface end-to-end: Intel NPU via OpenVINO (Meteor Lake, Lunar Lake, vPro AI PCs), Intel integrated and discrete GPU via OpenVINO and ONNX Runtime, and x86/AMD64 CPU optimization for fallback paths. You're the technical face to Intel's ecosystem and OpenVINO team. What You’ll Do - Land Sarvam’s edge models on Intel NPU / dGPU / iGPU inside defined SLAs - Own the OpenVINO build/quantization recipe for the team's models, including the driver-version compatibility matrix - Drive x86 CPU optimization for the universal fallback path - AVX-512, AMX, threading strategy. - Own the Intel device-CI pool and regression detection across OpenVINO upgrades. What We're Looking For - 5+ years on ML deployment with 2+ years on Intel inference stacks. - Production OpenVINO experience including model conversion, accuracy validation post-quantization, and driver-version pinning. - ONNX Runtime EP knowledge - when OpenVINO EP vs. native OpenVINO, when to fall back to CPU EP. - x86 CPU profiling and optimization - VTune, perf, comfort reading hot loops at the assembly level when needed. - AVX-512 or AMX intrinsics is a strong plus, not a must-have. Bonus Points - Direct prior interaction with the OpenVINO team or Intel ecosystem partners. - Custom OpenVINO operator authoring. 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 resear
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