Skip to content
← Pika

Research Scientist, Data

Pika · US remote

CHECKED 8H AGO

Applied AIremotestaff$185k–$400k
Apply on the lab’s site ↗

At a glance

Highlights

  • Architect large-scale pipelines powering multimodal foundation model training.
  • Curate diverse text, image, audio and video datasets for pre-training.
  • Build real-time creative infrastructure used by millions of creators.

What they offer

  • Substantial equity in high-growth startup
  • Full health benefits
  • 401k matching

Ideal candidate

Data-driven research engineer who thrives owning large-scale systems and enabling frontier research. Passionate about data excellence, collaboration, and powering generative creativity for millions.

Requirements

  • 5+ years building and scaling data pipelines for ML at staff or lead level
  • Background in data engineering and ML curation for LLMs, VLMs or multimodal models
  • Expertise in distributed data systems and large-scale ETL workflows
  • Proven ability to build production-grade data infrastructure for ML pipelines
  • Experience with data labeling, filtering, deduplication and quality assurance tools
  • Strong programming skills in Python, SQL, PySpark or similar and cloud platforms
  • Knowledge of privacy, compliance, ethics and best practices in data management
  • Excellent cross-functional collaboration, problem-solving and communication skills
remote policy
Flexible on-site/remote hybrid

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
More about Pika →
Apply on the lab’s site ↗