Pika

2 months ago

Research Scientist, Foundation Model

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Job Summary

Join Pika as a Multimodal LLM Researcher to design and build real-time, multimodal generation and agentic platforms. Lead research on LLMs/VLMs/Audio LMs, develop diffusion-based architectures, curate datasets, and collaborate with engineering to deploy production-ready, real-time systems. On-site at the Palo Alto HQ to empower millions of creators with next-gen creative tech.

Location: Palo Alto

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)

Key Responsibilities

•Lead and contribute to research focused on real-time, multimodal generation (text, image, video, audio) and orchestration of agentic platform infrastructure
•Design and prototype novel algorithms and architectures for high-fidelity, real-time multimodal synthesis and interactive experiences
•Focus on real-time model inference and synthesis across modalities
•Work on diffusion model distillation or diffusion-based world models for multimodal applications
•Train and finetune autoregressive and diffusion models in LLM/VLM/Audio LM contexts with a focus on real-time performance

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 185,000 - 400,000 annually

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

•5+ years of relevant experience in large language models, vision-language models, or audio language models, including research during graduate studies
•First-author publications in top conferences/journals (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, Interspeech)
•Deep expertise in language modeling (LLM), vision-language modeling (VLM), or audio language modeling (Audio LM)
•Strong experience with generative models (autoregressive and diffusion) and their real-time deployment
•Hands-on experience curating or augmenting large multimodal datasets

Experience:5+ yearsMultimodal AIResearchAcademic publications

Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solving

Tech Stack:PythonPyTorchTensorFlowDiffusion modelsLLMVLMAudio LM

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

Website LinkedIn

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Pika

2 months ago

Research Scientist, Foundation Model

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Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 2 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: Palo Alto

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)

Key Responsibilities

•Lead and contribute to research focused on real-time, multimodal generation (text, image, video, audio) and orchestration of agentic platform infrastructure
•Design and prototype novel algorithms and architectures for high-fidelity, real-time multimodal synthesis and interactive experiences
•Focus on real-time model inference and synthesis across modalities
•Work on diffusion model distillation or diffusion-based world models for multimodal applications
•Train and finetune autoregressive and diffusion models in LLM/VLM/Audio LM contexts with a focus on real-time performance

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 185,000 - 400,000 annually

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

•5+ years of relevant experience in large language models, vision-language models, or audio language models, including research during graduate studies
•First-author publications in top conferences/journals (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, Interspeech)
•Deep expertise in language modeling (LLM), vision-language modeling (VLM), or audio language modeling (Audio LM)
•Strong experience with generative models (autoregressive and diffusion) and their real-time deployment
•Hands-on experience curating or augmenting large multimodal datasets

Experience:5+ yearsMultimodal AIResearchAcademic publications

Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solving

Tech Stack:PythonPyTorchTensorFlowDiffusion modelsLLMVLMAudio LM

Company Brief

Pika

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

Website LinkedIn