Research Scientist, Data
Pika · US remote
CHECKED 8H AGO
Applied AIremotestaff$185k–$400k
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