Pika
Research Scientist, Data
$185K–$400K
US remote · Remote · Full-time · Posted Jul 1, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years; staff or lead engineer level.
About the job
Architects and scales data infrastructure and curation systems that support training and research for multimodal foundation models.
What you'll do
- Build and optimize large-scale data pipelines for text, image, audio, and video datasets.
- Develop tools and strategies for dataset ingestion, labeling, filtering, augmentation, storage, and quality management.
- Partner with research and engineering teams to deliver reliable, compliant data for distributed model training.
What they ask for
- 5+ years building and scaling data pipelines for machine learning applications at staff or lead engineer level.
- Strong background in data engineering and ML data curation for LLMs, VLMs, or other large-scale multimodal models.
- Expertise in distributed data systems and large-dataset processing or ETL workflows.
- Strong programming skills in Python, SQL, PySpark, or similar; familiarity with cloud data platforms.
Pay
$185K – $400K USD base salary
Tools
Spark, Hadoop, Ray, Python, SQL, PySpark, AWS, GCP
AI focus
Supports pre-training and mid-training of multimodal foundation models through data pipeline engineering, curation, and dataset-management methods.
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