Pika

We are looking for a staff or lead-level Research Engineer, Data to architect and scale data engineering systems supporting model training for our advanced multimodal foundation models. What You’ll DoTake ownership of large-scale data pipeline architecture and implementation to support model training and research workflows for text, image, audio, and video datasetsPartner with research and engineering teams to curate, clean, and manage diverse, sensory-rich datasets for pre-training and mid-training of multimodal modelsDevelop strategies and tools for scalable data ingestion, labeling, filtering, augmentation, and storageEnsure data quality, reliability, and compliance, including managing privacy and ethical considerations throughout the data lifecycleOptimize data processing, transformation, and delivery for large-scale distributed training pipelinesPrototype and productionize new metho

As a key member of our research team, you will design and implement core technologies, develop new methodologies for large-scale multimodal pre-training/mid-training (text, image, audio, and video), and drive innovative approaches for foundational model architecture. You will collaborate closely with engineering and product teams, shaping the future of real-time creative and agentic platforms at scale. What You’ll Do Lead research and development on pre-training and mid-training of multimodal foundation models at scale. Design and prototype novel algorithms and architectures for high-fidelity, real-time multimodal synthesis and interaction across modalities.