Principal Engineer, Product

Pika
Palo Alto
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Communications, PR & CommunityExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Ownership","Strategic thinking","Mentorship"]

Lead the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for user-facing web and multi-platform systems. Build real-time collaboration and live multi-user experiences, drive features end-to-end from ideation to launch, and integrate generative AI workflows into creative tooling. Partner with product and design leaders to deliver scalable, robust, and delightful experiences, while improving cross-service metrics, tracing, and observability.

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Pika
Pika
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Principal Engineer, Product

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Job Summary

Lead the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for user-facing web and multi-platform systems. Build real-time collaboration and live multi-user experiences, drive features end-to-end from ideation to launch, and integrate generative AI workflows into creative tooling. Partner with product and design leaders to deliver scalable, robust, and delightful experiences, while improving cross-service metrics, tracing, and observability.
Location: Palo Alto
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Communications, PR & Community
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own and define architecture and technical strategy for user-facing web and multi-platform products.
  • •Develop real-time collaboration capabilities, messaging, and live multi-user interactions.
  • •Drive features from ideation and scoping through development, launch, and continuous improvement.
  • •Integrate complex generative AI workflows (LLMs, models, agentic tools) into creative tooling.
  • •Improve cross-service metrics, tracing, and observability for critical product features.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceEquityMonthly StipendsCompany Retreats

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of professional software engineering experience with substantial time in senior/principal and product-focused roles.
  • •Proven experience leading the design, execution, and scaling of high-impact web or mobile products using React, TypeScript, Node.js, Go, or similar.
  • •Strong systems design expertise, including distributed systems, scalable APIs, and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP).
  • •Experience across the stack, including ML/AI infrastructure (Python, GPU-backed workflows) as required.
  • •Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence across disciplines and build consensus.
Experience:8+ yearsAIGenerative AIDistributed systemsWeb productsMobile products
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipOwnershipStrategic thinkingMentorship
Tech Stack:ReactTypeScriptPythonGoPostgresRedisDockerKubernetesAWSGCPLLMsGPUPyTorch

Company Brief

Pika
Pika (Pika Labs) builds AI-driven tools to generate and edit videos from text prompts and images, enabling creators to produce cinematic, 3D, anime and stylized videos with a web-based platform and APIs.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Valuation: USD 250M to 500M
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: Palo Alto, United States
Founded: 2023
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