Pika

Product Designer

• Own and lead design projects from concept to polished execution across mobile and web for a key area of Pika’s creative platform
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and researchers to turn ideas and AI advancements into accessible user experiences
• Develop product strategies and refine interaction patterns
• Push ideas from prototypes to shipped features
• Define and uphold visual language, design systems, and user flows
• Connect directly with creators and the Pika community to understand and improve creative expression tools
• Communicate design intent through storytelling, prototypes, and clear rationale
• Balance systems thinking with detailed attention to typography, palettes, spacing, and animation
• Advocate for user-centric, empathetic design

Product Manager

• Own the roadmap and lead projects from initial idea to launch for a key area of Pika’s generative AI creative platform
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and researchers to turn AI advancements into intuitive user experiences
• Define and track success metrics using data, feedback, and creative insights
• Connect with creators and the Pika community to understand their needs
• Write clear specifications and rally the team
• Coordinate across teams to align stakeholders and deliver results

Full-stack Engineer

• Develop, launch, and scale product features for AI-powered creative tools
• Design and launch intuitive features for AI-powered video and multimedia tools
• Collaborate with engineering, design, ML, product, and UX teams
• Translate creative possibilities into user-facing features
• Architect and implement end-to-end product solutions across backend infrastructure and frontend experiences
• Ensure product quality, performance, and reliability across platforms
• Conduct code reviews and promote engineering best practices
• Mentor team members
• Iterate rapidly on features, prototypes, and experiments
• Shape the evolution of Pika’s core product

Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Product

Data Scientist

• Architect and implement large-scale data pipelines supporting model training and research workflows for text, image, audio, and video datasets
• Partner with research and engineering teams to curate, clean, and manage diverse sensory-rich datasets for pre-training and mid-training of multimodal models
• Develop strategies and tools for scalable data ingestion, labeling, filtering, augmentation, and storage
• Ensure data quality, reliability, and compliance, including privacy and ethical considerations throughout the data lifecycle
• Optimize data processing, transformation, and delivery for large-scale distributed training pipelines
• Prototype and productionize methods for dataset creation, management, and continuous improvement
• Integrate research-driven data advancements into production-ready systems
• Stay informed about emerging data engineering and ML data management developments and apply best practices

Research Scientist, Data

• Own and define the architecture and technical strategy for Pika’s web and multi-platform products
• Spearhead real-time collaboration capabilities, messaging, and live multi-user interactions
• Drive product features from ideation through scoping, development, launch, and continuous improvement
• Integrate complex generative AI workflows, including LLMs, models, and agentic tools, into creative tooling
• Partner with product and design leaders to deliver accessible creative workflows
• Champion technical excellence through high standards, architecture reviews, mentorship, and proposals
• Oversee and improve cross-service metrics, tracing, and observability for critical product features
• Guide engineering direction for user-facing systems serving millions of creative users

Principal Software Engineer, Product

Engineering Manager

• Set and communicate the technical vision and strategy for product engineering across all Pika platforms and user-facing features
• Lead, mentor, and scale multiple engineering teams
• Architect and oversee scalable, high-performing systems
• Ensure best practices in system reliability, security, and efficiency
• Partner with product, design, and ML teams to define technical solutions aligned with business and user needs
• Guide strategic and architectural technical decision-making, including technology selection and process improvement
• Champion software quality, rapid iteration, and best-in-class product experience
• Own the technical roadmap, resource planning, and milestone delivery for major product launches and iterations
• Represent engineering in executive discussions and drive cross-functional alignment

Head of Engineering, Product

Data Engineer

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL workflows
• Build, automate, and optimize data infrastructure for analytics, reporting, and machine learning applications
• Ensure data quality, consistency, and security across all sources and sinks
• Collaborate with engineering, analytics, and product teams to define data requirements and deliver reliable datasets
• Implement monitoring solutions and proactively resolve data pipeline issues
• Optimize storage and data processing performance for growth and efficiency
• Contribute to data modeling efforts and schema design for analytics and product needs
• Help establish best practices and empower a data-driven culture across the organization

• Design, develop, and launch growth features and experiments across the Pika platform
• Implement scalable A/B tests and personalization strategies to optimize user acquisition and retention
• Analyze data to discover new growth levers and track the effectiveness of growth strategies
• Collaborate with product, marketing, and data teams to prioritize and execute high-impact growth initiatives
• Rapidly prototype and ship new product surfaces, onboarding flows, and engagement loops
• Optimize performance, reliability, and user experience for features targeting key growth metrics
• Contribute to product virality, referral, and sharing capabilities to expand reach
• Advocate for a data-driven, experimentation-focused engineering culture
• Build tools that empower human creativity through Pika's AI-powered video creation platform

Growth Engineer

Research Scientist

• Own RL-based post-training for video diffusion/flow-matching models
• Run RL post-training, including preference optimization and online RL against learned rewards, at multi-node scale
• Build video reward models by defining evaluation dimensions, configuring preference data collection workflows, training and validating learned judges, and safeguarding against reward hacking
• Own post-training evaluation using human preference studies and correlation with automated metrics
• Distill RL-tuned models to efficient few-step samplers while preserving alignment gains
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams
• Shape real-time creative and agentic video platforms

Research Scientist – Video Generation

Backend Engineer

• Architect and develop scalable, high-performing backend systems and APIs powering Pika products and services
• Build, maintain, and enhance distributed systems and cloud infrastructure on AWS/GCP
• Ensure high availability and reliability of backend infrastructure
• Own backend features and platforms from ideation through launch and ongoing iteration
• Develop systems supporting low-latency, real-time collaboration and messaging at scale
• Design and optimize backend features powering creative, AI-driven product capabilities
• Lead technical discussions and review code
• Drive backend architecture proposals
• Mentor engineers and elevate backend engineering standards
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and design teams to deliver reliable, performant, and secure features