About Pocket FM

Pocket FM is building AI-native products that operate at massive scale across storytelling, content creation, personalization, and user engagement. Our Applied Research team focuses on turning frontier AI research into production systems that solve real-world problems where success is often determined by human judgment, preferences, creativity, and nuanced user outcomes rather than purely verifiable answers.

We're looking for Research Engineers who enjoy working at the intersection of research and product, and who have experience designing, training, evaluating, and improving autonomous AI systems.

What you'll do
- Design and build agentic AI systems that can reason, plan, use tools, and execute complex multi-step workflows
- Develop domain-specific agent architectures tailored to challenging product problems rather than generic benchmark tasks
- Formulate real-world problems as sequential decision-making problems and identify effective learning signals for improvement.



Agentic systems increasingly benefit from reinforcement learning and workplace-driven optimization approaches that align agent behavior with domain objectives
- Create simulated or real-world environments that allow agents to learn, explore, and improve on metrics that matter to users and the business
- Build evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and measurement systems that capture progress in complex, subjective, and human-centered domains
- Design reward models, preference-learning systems, or other feedback mechanisms where objective ground truth may not exist
- Run rigorous experimentation to understand agent behavior, failure modes, and opportunities for improvement
- Collaborate closely with product, engineering, content, and data teams to translate research into production impact
- Stay current with emerging research in reinforcement learning, agentic systems, reasoning, multimodal AI, and generative models

What we're looking for

Strongly preferred
- Experience building an

📌 Research Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Pocket FM
📍 Bengaluru