Embedded Data Scientist, Chanakya

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About the role

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.

The work

About the Role

Embedded Data Scientists transform complex client data into structures that AI systems can reliably reason over. You are deployed alongside Strategic Deployment Engineers at client sites, working directly with client data environments to understand, structure, and operationalise large-scale datasets.

This means working with heterogeneous, multimodal data — including documents, images, audio, geospatial data, and structured records — and designing the semantic structures that allow AI systems to interpret and reason over that data.

You will define how data is represented inside the AI system: how documents are segmented, how metadata is defined, how entities and relationships are represented, and how different data modalities connect. You will design ontologies, tagging systems, and knowledge graph structures that allow the reasoning engine to operate effectively.

You will often work with classified or operationally sensitive datasets in environments where standard tooling may not exist. You will own the quality of the data layer in your assigned accounts, ensuring the system is built on a foundation that enables reliable reasoning at scale.

The work

What You'll Do

• Understand the client's data landscape across documents, imagery, audio, geospatial data, and structured records — including data sources, formats, workflows, and domain terminology
• Design domain ontologies representing entities, relationships, hierarchies, and operational concepts within the client's data environment
• Define document segmentation and chunking strategies that preserve semantic meaning and support effective retrieval
• Work with heterogeneous datasets and define how different modalities should be indexed, embedded, and linked
• Collaborate with Strategic Deployment Engineers to translate semantic structures into operational data ingestion pipelines
• Evaluate how well the AI system retrieves and reasons over client data, and refine structures to improve performance
• Collaborate with the models and other teams to define benchmarks and evaluation criteria that reflect real-world deployment conditions
• Translate insights from client data environments into structured signals for product and engineering teams

Who they want

What We're Looking For

• 2–5 years in data science, applied machine learning, or large-scale data analysis roles
• Strong Python skills including pandas, NumPy, and modern NLP or LLM tooling
• Solid grounding in ML fundamentals — enough to understand model behaviour, contribute to evaluation design, and collaborate with a models team on training and benchmarking
• Experience working with large unstructured datasets including documents, transcripts, reports, or operational records
• Familiarity with LLM-based systems, retrieval pipelines, or vector search systems
• Experience designing or working with data schemas, metadata frameworks, entity models, or semantic data structures

Also

Signals We Look For

• You've worked with real-world, messy, unstructured data and built something rigorous from it
• You are comfortable designing structure where none exists — defining schemas, ontologies, and metadata frameworks from scratch
• You can translate complex data insights into explanations that engineers and client stakeholders can act on

Who they want

Who You Are

• You are comfortable operating with autonomy in client environments; you don't need a data team around you to do rigorous work
• You move fluently between domain understanding, data modelling, and AI