Pocket FM · 18 hours ago
Research Engineer – Applied Generative AI (LLMs & Multimodal Systems)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$200K/yr - $230K/yr
4+ years expPocket FM is where audio storytelling comes to life, powered by cutting-edge AI. The company is seeking a Research Engineer to architect and optimize AI systems that enhance storytelling through generative AI models and workflows.
AppsAudioDigital EntertainmentInformation TechnologyMedia and EntertainmentSoftware
Hiring Manager
Shashwat Shukla
Responsibilities
Design, build, and optimize robust pipelines for fine-tuning foundation models (e.g., LLaMA, Mistral, Qwen) on custom datasets
Engineer and productionize models that seamlessly blend modalities
Design and implement a scalable orchestration system (e.g., using LangGraph, Ray, or custom frameworks) to manage complex, multi-agent AI workflows
Bridge the gap between models and our production environment
Be the critical link between theoretical research and tangible product features
Qualification
Required
4+ years of building and shipping machine learning models into production environments
Deep, hands-on experience fine-tuning large language models using techniques like LoRA, QLoRA, DPO, or RLHF
Practical experience building models that integrate multiple modalities (e.g., text-to-speech, audio understanding, vision-language)
Experience building or maintaining the full AI pipeline, from data ingestion to model serving and monitoring
Proficiency in Python, PyTorch, and the Hugging Face ecosystem (Transformers, Accelerate, PEFT)
Demonstrable experience with frameworks like FSDP, DeepSpeed, or Megatron-LM
Familiarity with AI workflow orchestrators (e.g., LangGraph, Prefect, Ray) and experience connecting models to cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, building AI agents, and designing novel evaluation frameworks for generative models
Benefits
Meaningful employee stock options (ESOPs)
Company
Pocket FM
Pocket FM creates audio series platforms for long-form audio entertainment.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$212.52MKey Investors
Lightspeed Venture Partners,StepStone GroupSilicon Valley BankGoodwater Capital,Naver,Tanglin Venture Partners
2024-03-15Series D· $103M
2023-05-02Debt Financing· $16M
2022-03-03Series C· $64.83M
Leadership Team
Nishanth S.
Co-Founder
Prateek Dixit
Co-Founder
Recent News
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