About the Role

Pika is looking for a sharp and systematic Prompt Engineer to join our team. This is a hands-on role focused on crafting, optimizing, and documenting high-performing prompts across generative video, image, and text workflows. You’ll blend your technical understanding of AI tools with creative experimentation, helping to scale our content engine while pushing the boundaries of what's possible with GenAI. You’ll follow our content strategy, but also bring your own creative instincts into the mix.

This is not an arts-focused role — we’re looking for people who really know how to prompt.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize prompts for text-to-video and image models based on content goals

• Train LoRAs based on evolving aesthetic micro-genres

• Conduct structured prompt experimentation and fine-tuning

• Track, label, and document performance and edge cases across generations

• Work closely with creative leads to prototype and iterate at speed

• Translate subjective creative goals into reproducible prompt logic

• Identify opportunities to improve output quality, efficiency, and scalability

• Collaborate with engineering on feedback loops and tagging systems

Required Skills & Experience

• 1+ years of experience working with GenAI tools (e.g., GPT-4, Claude, Midjourney, Runway, Pika, Luma, ComfyUI, etc.)

• Deep familiarity with prompt structures, failure modes, and quirks across modalities

• Comfortable writing and modifying scripts to automate or batch test prompts

• Obsessed over prompt optimization, detail, and craft

• Highly organized — able to track iterations, log changes, and debug outputs

• Curious about both model behavior and language nuance

• Prior experience with prompt engineering in a production, research, or agency setting is a strong plus

• No formal arts background required (though a good eye and taste are very welcome)

About Pika

At Pika, we’re crafting a future where video creation is seamless, intuitive, and universally accessible. Our vision is set on a world where videos transcend entertainment, serving as a canvas for everyone's unique expression. Harnessing AI's transformative power, we aim to dismantle the technical barriers that have traditionally made video production an exclusive field. It’s about building the best technology that upholds the power of creativity—not just within our products but as an integral part of our culture.

We’re a small team of energetic, smart and curious individuals. We value efficiency, collaboration, and creativity. We seek new team members who bring sharp intellect, a strong work ethic, and the ambition to make an impact. Here, you'll find significant room for career advancement, supported by a culture that nurtures both individual and collective development.

Our headquarters is based in Palo Alto, CA, and we work from the office 5 days a week.