Applied AI Engineer, Creative Experiences

The role

You will combine models across image, video, audio, and language to build workflows, demos, and features. You will take ideas from initial opportunity through experimentation, implementation, and delivery to drive interest and revenue.

What you will do

• Find promising opportunities by staying close to new models, tools, and cultural trends.
• Build end to end by combining existing models, APIs, and tools into multimodal workflows.
• Test practical approaches quickly using lightweight LoRA fine-tuning or targeted post-training.
• Deliver frequently in short iteration cycles.
• Create work ready to share, such as compelling demos and creative outputs.
• Learn from results using audience response, product feedback, and revenue signals.
• Make successful work reusable through working workflows and concise documentation.

Required qualifications

• Hands-on experience building with generative AI models, APIs, or creative workflows.
• Strong prototyping and coding skills.
• A creative, entrepreneurial mindset and good judgment.
• Curiosity across modalities and the ability to learn unfamiliar models and tools quickly.
• Ownership and comfort with tight timelines.
• A clear connection between technical choices and the intended user or business outcome.

Nice to have

• Experience as a startup founder or early-stage startup team member, or actively building and testing startup ideas.
• Hackathon wins or standout hackathon projects.
• LoRA fine-tuning, lightweight model adaptation, or other targeted post-training.
• Combining image, video, audio, or language models in a single workflow.
• Building creative demos, interactive prototypes, or AI experiences that reached real users.

About the company

Pika is looking for a creative, hands-on AI researcher to build compelling experiences.