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You'll combine models across image, video, audio, and language to build workflows, demos, and features that bring people to Pika and contribute to revenue growth.\nThis is a goal-driven applied research role, open to both full-time hires and interns. You'll take ideas from an initial opportunity through experimentation, implementation, and delivery, then use feedback and results to decide what to improve next. Strong creative judgment, resourcefulness, and fast execution are central to the role.\nWhat you'll do\nFind promising opportunities. Stay close to new models, tools, creative formats, and cultural trends. Identify ideas with a clear audience, use case, and potential to drive interest, website traffic, or revenue.\n\nBuild end to end. Combine existing models, APIs, and tools into working multimodal workflows. Own the path from a rough concept to a usable demo, creative asset, or product experience.\n\nChoose the right amount of research. Test practical approaches quickly. 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Leave working workflows, examples, and concise documentation so the team can reproduce and build on what you deliver.\n\nWhat we're looking for\nHands-on experience building with generative AI models, APIs, or creative workflows, with examples of work you have taken from idea to a working result.\n\nStrong prototyping and coding skills: you can connect tools, debug a pipeline, and make an end-to-end experience work.\n\nA creative, entrepreneurial mindset and good judgment about what makes an output compelling, useful, and worth sharing. 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