🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll lead research on real-time video generation and agentic platform infrastructure at Pika. Your work will power scalable interactive experiences for millions of creators. We offer high-growth startup equity and flexible hybrid work.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Lead research on real-time video generation and agentic orchestration
• Design and prototype novel algorithms for real-time video synthesis
• Train and finetune autoregressive and diffusion models
• Curate datasets for camera motion and human motion

📋 Requirements

• 5+ years experience in real-time video generation or deep learning
• First-author publications in top conferences (CVPR, NeurIPS, SIGGRAPH)
• Hands-on experience with diffusion model distillation
• Experience training autoregressive models for real-time applications

✨ Nice to Have

• Experience developing real-time video systems or agentic infrastructure
• Expertise in computer vision and generative models
• Strong data curation skills for motion datasets

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 💰 Competitive salary and substantial equity
• 🏥 Full health benefits + 401k matching
• 🕒 Flexible on-site/remote hybrid work
• 🚀 High-growth startup environment