# Research Scientist, Foundation Model (Video Generation)

Hiring organization: [Pika Labs](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/pika-labs)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/aed06dad-bc4c-4c2b-a578-2ae44d3a5c82

Listed on Pika Labs's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Staff
- Location: Palo Alto, CA
- Salary: 185000 – 400000 USD per year

## Summary

Pika is seeking a senior research scientist to lead the development of large-scale multimodal foundation models for real-time video generation and creative applications. This role combines cutting-edge AI research with the opportunity to bring foundational model innovations directly into production systems serving millions of creators.

_Our summary, not Pika Labs's wording._

## Skills named

Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow

## Required

- 5+ years of research experience in large-scale pre-training or mid-training of multimodal foundation models
- First-author publications in top-tier conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc.)
- Hands-on experience designing, training, and deploying large-scale multimodal models
- Deep expertise in generative model architectures (diffusion, autoregressive, cross-modal)
- Experience with scalable dataset curation and model pipeline optimization
- Strong programming skills and experience deploying research to production

## Nice to have

- Experience at staff or lead scientist level in industry or academia

Apply on Pika Labs's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pika/d3993c91-4dd5-4868-8108-4e9b78133e7b/application