Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI
Pika is an active AI creative platform for generating and editing video, images, and audio, with a creator-facing app and an API offering.
Funding history
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You'll work directly with clients to understand their goals, identify where model outputs fall short, and fine-tune or post-train models for their use cases. You'll build supporting workflows, iterate quickly with feedback, communicate clearly and professionally, and help move successful work into deployment and closed engagements.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience fine-tuning or post-training generative AI models
- Strong coding and practical ML skills
- Excellent listening and communication skills
- Professional judgment, reliability and service mindset
- Independence and ownership with team collaboration
- Ability to work in fast feedback cycles and connect technical decisions to client value
Responsibilities
- Understand client needs and translate them into clear scope and success criteria
- Fine-tune and post-train models for client use cases
- Prepare examples and evaluation criteria and verify each iteration improves outcomes
- Build workflows connecting APIs, tools and processing steps into complete solutions
- Iterate quickly with clients on feedback
- Communicate technical options and limitations professionally
- Own execution and coordinate with the team
- Deliver successful experiments for deployment with documentation
- Help close client engagements