Pika

Pika

Research Intern (BS/MS/PhD)

Palo Alto HQ · Intern · Internship

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 12 days ago
PythonAlgorithmsMachine LearningTensorFlowPyTorchLLMsResearchCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • At Pika, we are shaping the future of creative infrastructure with real-time, multimodal generation and intelligent agentic platforms.
  • We are looking for passionate Research Interns at the BS, MS, or PhD level with significant experience working on Videogen to join our team and make an immediate impact.
  • This internship is ideal for students and researchers who have hands-on Videogen experience, are excited to work at the intersection of generative AI and multimedia, and are eager to make meaningful contributions alongside top AI talent.

Responsibilities

  • Design, prototype, and refine algorithms for high-throughput video and multimedia data pipelines.
  • Collaborate with experienced researchers and engineers on advanced AI and video generation technology.
  • In this role, you will directly contribute to mid-training and post-training efforts for Videogen models and support advanced generative systems.
  • Pika empowers creators by building cutting-edge agentic and multimedia platforms.

Requirements

  • Expertise in video generation models or frameworks.
  • Proficiency in Python and ML toolkits (such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.).

Nice to have

  • BS, MS, or PhD-level backgrounds, with demonstrated Videogen experience strongly preferred.

Compensation

  • Competitive compensation and a dynamic, mission-driven environment

Benefits

  • Flexible internship: part-time or full-time roles available
  • Familiarity with multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is valued as a bonus.
  • Prior exposure to multimodal LLM inference, generative models, or related areas is a bonus.

Company info

  • Unique opportunity to make an immediate impact with Videogen and generative AI research
  • Mentorship and collaboration with innovative researchers and engineers
  • Competitive compensation and a dynamic, mission-driven environment
  • Onsite work setup, with headquarters in Palo Alto, CA
  • What We're Looking For
  • Our mission is to remove technical barriers and make real-time generative and intelligent orchestration accessible to everyone.

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