# Applied AI Engineer, Creative Experiences

Open to full-time hires and interns. About the role At Pika, we're looking for a creative, hands-on AI researcher who can turn the latest models, APIs, and emerging ideas into compelling experiences people want to try and share. 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. This 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. What you'll do Find 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. Build 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. Choose the right amount of research. Test practical appro

- **Id**: 4002949
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/pika-applied-ai-engineer-creative-experiences>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Palo Alto, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T02:23:15Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T04:42:07Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3804
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, LLM & Generative AI, AI Agents, Generative Video

## Company

- **Id**: 48170
- **Name**: Pika
- **Domain**: pika.art
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/pika>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **LoRA** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Pika** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **PEFT** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T04:42:07Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:31:01Z

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