Pika

About Pika

Empowering creativity through seamless video creation

🏢 Tech👥 11-50

Key Highlights

  • Headquartered in San Francisco, CA
  • Growing team of 11-50 employees
  • Focus on user-friendly video creation tools
  • Supports diverse customers including marketers and creators

Pika is an idea-to-video platform that empowers users to create engaging video content effortlessly. With a focus on user-friendly tools, Pika serves a diverse range of customers, from content creators to marketing teams. Headquartered in San Francisco, Pika is rapidly growing and has attracted sign...

🎁 Benefits

Pika offers competitive salaries, equity options, flexible remote work policies, and generous PTO to support work-life balance....

🌟 Culture

Pika fosters a creative and collaborative culture, encouraging employees to experiment and innovate in video content creation. The company values user...

Overview

Pika is hiring a Research Engineer to focus on fine-tuning video generation and editing models. You'll work with techniques like LoRA and DreamBooth to enhance AI capabilities in creative applications. This role requires experience in model optimization and data pipeline design.

Job Description

Who you are

You have a strong background in AI and machine learning, particularly in video generation and editing models. Your experience includes fine-tuning models using advanced techniques such as LoRA and DreamBooth, and you are passionate about pushing the boundaries of AI in creative scenarios. You thrive in collaborative environments, working closely with researchers, product designers, and engineers to create high-quality effects and transformations. Your technical skills are complemented by a creative mindset, allowing you to experiment with various post-training techniques to deliver user-friendly features.

You are familiar with designing and building large-scale data pipelines and automated workflows that support continuous model improvement. Your understanding of model performance optimization in special effects applications is robust, and you are eager to explore best practices for model compression and real-time processing. You are committed to efficiency and creativity, and you bring a strong work ethic to your team.

What you'll do

In this role, you will be responsible for fine-tuning video generation and editing models, leveraging methods such as LoRA and DreamBooth to enhance their performance in special effects scenarios. You will optimize model performance for applications like effects compositing, character replacement, and style transfer, ensuring they work seamlessly in production environments. You will also research and develop fine-tuning strategies and deployment solutions for video generation models, including Stable Video Diffusion and AnimateDiff, across diverse application scenarios.

You will explore and implement best practices for model compression, acceleration, and deployment to enhance real-time video processing capabilities. Collaborating with a talented team, you will contribute to the development of innovative features that delight creators and push the limits of what AI can achieve in real-world applications. Your role will involve continuous learning and experimentation, as you seek to improve model performance and user experience.

What we offer

At Pika, you will find a culture that values collaboration, creativity, and efficiency. We offer significant room for career advancement and support both individual and collective development. Our headquarters is located in Palo Alto, CA, where you will work from the office five days a week. Join us in making an impact in the field of AI and video generation, and be part of a team that is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of technology.

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