ML Engineer, Inference & Optimization
Pika · Palo Alto HQ
CHECKED 6H AGO
Applied AIonsitesenior/staff$250k–$350k
At a glance
Highlights
- Accelerate inference for Pika's creative AI video products at scale.
- Bring state-of-the-art video generation models into production.
- Power next-generation video and language models for creators.
What they offer
- Equity in a fast-growing startup
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Monthly stipends
- Company retreats
- Collaborative Palo Alto office culture
Ideal candidate
A self-driven senior engineer who thrives in fast-paced startups and loves making creative AI fast and scalable. You enjoy collaborating with researchers and mentoring peers to push real-time deployment forward.
Requirements
- 5+ years engineering experience with inference acceleration and deployment at scale
- Expertise in inference optimization including quantization and attention acceleration
- Deep knowledge of GPU programming with CUDA and NCCL and parallelism (TP, SP, PP)
- Familiarity with video generation models and large language models
- Strong cross-discipline communication across research and engineering
- Self-driven, solutions-oriented owner comfortable with ambiguity in startups
Lab profile
About Pika
Builds next-generation AI creative tools for seamless, intuitive video creation.
What they build
- Generative AI video creation platform
- Videogen video generation models
- Real-time multimodal generation tools
Known for
- Large-scale video generation
- RL post-training and reward modeling
- Inference acceleration and GPU optimization
Key facts
- Based in Palo Alto