Staff Engineer - Mobile, Desktop & KMP

Overview

Staff Engineer (IC) to own the client application layer for Sarvam’s native mobile and desktop apps using Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) across five platforms.

What you'll do

• Own end-to-end architecture for mobile and desktop apps with a shared KMP core.
• Ship and evolve Indus and Kivi native apps across Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, and macOS.
• Lead the KMP adoption strategy, including common-code vs native boundaries and shared module design.
• Integrate model APIs (ASR, TTS, translation, LLM, vision) with streaming responses and graceful failure handling.
• Drive performance and reliability across platforms (cold-start, memory, audio latency, crash-free rate).
• Set client engineering standards for CI/CD, testing on real devices, code review, and documentation-first architecture.
• Mentor engineers on platform-native depth and KMP discipline.

What you'll need

• 9+ years building production mobile and/or desktop applications with strong ownership.
• Deep Kotlin expertise including coroutines and flows and modern Android architecture.
• Comfort with Swift on iOS and at least one desktop platform (Windows, Linux, or macOS).
• Hands-on KMP experience with shipped/in-production shared modules and expect/actual boundaries.
• Strong native audio and streaming pipeline experience (capture, playback, buffering, VAD, codec handling).
• Experience shipping offline-first or constrained-environment apps (low bandwidth/low RAM).

Nice to have

• Experience with on-device model inference or on-device ML (TensorFlow Lite, Core ML, GGML, or equivalent).
• Background in speech or audio processing (e.g., codec work, sample-rate handling, echo cancellation, VAD).
• Experience building voice-first or dictation products, especially multi-language/Indic language voice experiences.
• Desktop app shipping experience via Kotlin/Native or JVM-based desktop targets, or app distribution experience (Mac App Store, Microsoft Store, or Linux package managers).
• Experience with Compose Multiplatform shipping to both mobile and desktop from a shared codebase.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru.