Careers at Sutra
Build the layer a regulator can replay.
Most AI teams ship answers. We ship answers that survive an audit — grounded in an ontology of India's grid, witnessed row by row, and honest enough to refuse. That is a harder, rarer engineering problem than another chat wrapper. It's why we exist.
The problem, honestly
Why this is some of the hardest applied-AI work going.
the substrate
One semantic model of the grid
Meters, feeders, transformers, tariff orders, ratings — one ontology every capability reads from. You'll shape how a nation's grid is described to machines.
the contract
Every answer carries a witness
Provenance isn't a feature we bolt on — it's the invariant everything is built against. Deterministic, replayable, defensible when a filing is contested.
the discipline
Teaching a system to refuse
The recurring verb here is refuse. Making an AI stay quiet when the evidence isn't there is harder than making it talk — and it's the whole product.
How we work
Forward-deployed, evidence-first, small on purpose.
You'll sit with the desk that signs. Engineers travel to the DISCOM. The vigilance officer's Monday is your spec.
Decisions are written down. Architecture decision records for everything that matters — you inherit the reasoning, not folklore.
Open-source substrate. The deployed stack is permissive open-source. We build in the open idiom, on our own terms.
Honesty over demo-magic. Live, modelled, illustrative — labelled on screen, even when a sale is at stake.
Open roles
Founding engineer — ontology & platform
The semantic substrate, the witness contract, the graph.
Founding engineer — grid ML
Theft signatures, load flow, forecasting — models that must show their work.
Forward-deployed engineer
In the DISCOM, turning a bounded pilot into an undeniable result.
Product designer — decision surfaces
Worklists, witnesses, and briefs for desks that have never had good software.
Don't see your shape? If the witness contract excites you, write to us anyway.
The grid a fifth of humanity runs on deserves software that shows its work.