Applied AI Engineer, Creative Experiences

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Pika
Full time
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USA
11/11/2026
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Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities

Identify AI opportunities with clear audiences, use cases, and potential to drive interest, traffic, or revenue.
Build end-to-end multimodal workflows, demos, creative assets, and product experiences using models, APIs, and tools.
Experiment with practical approaches, including lightweight LoRA fine-tuning or targeted post-training when appropriate.
Deliver frequent iterations while balancing research depth, quality, cost, and time to delivery.
Create compelling work for social media, launches, and growth efforts without requiring personal social-channel management.
Use audience response, product feedback, traffic, and revenue signals to decide what to refine, expand, or stop.
Document successful workflows and examples so the team can reproduce and extend them.

Requirements

Hands-on experience building with generative AI models, APIs, or creative workflows, with examples taken from idea to working result.
Strong prototyping and coding skills, including connecting tools, debugging pipelines, and making end-to-end experiences work.
Creative and entrepreneurial judgment about compelling, useful, and shareable outputs.
Curiosity across modalities and ability to learn unfamiliar models and tools quickly.
Ownership, prioritization, and comfort working under tight timelines.
Ability to connect technical decisions to intended user or business outcomes.
Helpful experience includes startup founding or early-stage startup work, successful hackathon projects, LoRA fine-tuning or targeted post-training, multimodal model workflows, and creative AI experiences reaching real users.

Benefits

Open to full-time hires and interns.

Pika

Pika builds an AI-powered idea-to-video platform that generates and edits short videos from text, images, or rough clips for creators and teams. The company develops its own generative video models and offers a web app used for storytelling, social content, and design workflows. Founded in 2023 a...

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