Applied AI Engineer, Creative Experiences
Pika is an active AI creative platform for generating and editing video, images, and audio, with a creator-facing app and an API offering.
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About Pika
Pika, operated by Mellis, Inc., provides a generative-AI platform through its websites, mobile apps, APIs, and third-party platforms. Its current product covers video, image, and audio creation/editing and offers access to first-party Pika and third-party models through an aggregated API platform.
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About the Role
You'll turn the latest models, APIs and emerging ideas into compelling experiences people want to try and share. You'll combine image, video, audio and language models into workflows, demos and features, taking ideas from opportunity through experimentation, implementation and delivery. You'll work in short iteration cycles, use lightweight LoRA fine-tuning when it helps, learn from audience and revenue signals, and leave reusable workflows and documentation for the team.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience building with generative AI models, APIs or creative workflows
- Strong prototyping and coding skills
- Creative, entrepreneurial mindset and good judgment about compelling outputs
- Curiosity across modalities and ability to learn new models and tools quickly
- Ownership and comfort with tight timelines
- Clear connection between technical choices and user or business outcomes
Responsibilities
- Find promising opportunities from new models, tools, creative formats and trends
- Build end-to-end multimodal workflows combining models, APIs and tools
- Test practical approaches quickly, using lightweight LoRA fine-tuning or post-training when worthwhile
- Deliver frequently in short iteration cycles
- Create demos and creative outputs ready for social media, launches and growth efforts
- Use audience response, product feedback and traffic or revenue signals to decide what to refine or stop
- Leave reusable workflows, examples and concise documentation
