Researcher, Vision-Language Models at Sarvam AI (Bengaluru)

Job Description

Sarvam is hiring a Researcher in vision-language models (VLMs) in Bengaluru, to work across the whole model lifecycle, from data and training to evaluation and production, with a particular focus on multilingual models and Indic multimodal tasks.

At a glance

• Role: Researcher, Vision
• Where: Bengaluru, India
• Focus: multilingual vision-language models and Indic multimodal benchmarks
• Background: track record of good research through publications, technical reports or shipped work
• Apply: open until filled (re-checked 12 October 2026)

About the vision research role

• Research vision-language architectures: encoders, fusion mechanisms, pretraining objectives and scaling
• Design training methods (pretraining, SFT, RLHF, DPO) adapted for multilingual VLMs
• Investigate data mixtures, quality signals and synthetic data approaches that improve models
• Build evaluation frameworks and benchmarks, especially for Indic multimodal tasks, and study failure modes, robustness and interpretability
• Prototype with engineers so ideas can be tested at scale, and contribute to open source and research collaborations

Indian-language AI is a distinct research problem: many languages have little training data, scripts vary widely, and users mix languages in a single sentence. Building models, evaluations and serving systems that work well for these users is what makes roles at an Indian foundation-model company different from similar roles elsewhere.

What Sarvam is looking for

• Deep understanding of vision-language models: training dynamics, architecture trade-offs and failure modes
• A track record of good research through publications, technical reports or impactful shipped work
• Rigorous experimental design and strong PyTorch skills, running experiments end to end
• Willingness to work across data, training and evaluation problems

Nice to have

• A PhD or Master’s with relevant research in ML, computer vision, NLP or a related field
• Papers at A/A* venues
• Multilingual or low-resource language modelling
• Document understanding, OCR or structured visual prediction, and large-scale data curation

Pay and location

Sarvam’s posting does not state a salary. The role is based in Bengaluru.

How to apply

Apply through the official Sarvam job posting. Sarvam’s posting does not give a closing date, so the role is open until filled; ResearchJobs.in will re-check this listing on 12 October 2026. Check the posting for location and work-authorisation details before you apply.

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