# Research Scientist, Data at Pika

- Company: Pika
- What the company does: AI creative tools. Built for Creatives. Backed by Lightspeed and AI Grant.
- Company website: https://pika.art/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: US remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $185K to $400K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-01
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pika/82835e51-284c-47af-b254-088fff23acd5
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/pika-research-scientist-data/

## About the role

At Pika, we are pioneering the next generation of creative infrastructure built around real-time, multimodal generation and intelligent agentic platforms. 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 they're looking for

- 5+ years of experience building and scaling data pipelines for machine learning applications at staff or lead engineer level, ideally in research or model training environments
- Strong background in data engineering and ML data curation for LLMs, VLMs, or other large-scale multimodal models
- Expertise in distributed data systems (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Ray, or similar) and efficient large dataset processing/ETL workflows
- Proven ability to build robust, scalable, and production-grade data infrastructure for ML pipelines
- Experience developing tools for data labeling, filtering, deduplication, quality assurance, and dataset management
- Strong programming skills (Python, SQL, PySpark, or similar) and familiarity with cloud data platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Tags: Research