About Pika
Pika is an AI video generation platform that enables anyone to create and edit high-quality videos from text prompts, images, audio, and existing footage. Its platform — available via web, iPhone app, and API — serves creators, marketers, and filmmakers by making professional-grade video production fast, accessible, and require no prior editing experience. Key products include Pikaformance (audio-driven video), Pikascenes (multi-image scene generation), and Pikaframes (keyframe-based interpolation).
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$135M
Last stage
Series B
Investors
Founders
Demi Guo
Dropped out of Stanford AI PhD program; Harvard Mathematics graduate; previously at Facebook AI Research, Google Brain, Microsoft Bing; won silver medal at International Olympiad in Informatics (2015).
Chenlin Meng
Dropped out of Stanford CS PhD program; co-authored DDIM (Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models); previously at Google Brain and Stability AI; published 30+ AI papers.
Karli Chen
MA in Machine Learning and Computer Vision from Carnegie Mellon University; former ML Engineer at SenseTime for 3 years.
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.