Client-Facing Applied AI Engineer - Deploy & Deliver

Pika; Iowa; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Pika is seeking a technically strong, client-facing AI researcher to turn customer feedback into models and workflows that solve real business needs.

You will work directly with clients to understand goals, tailor model outputs, and build the supporting workflows for deployment. This role emphasizes delivery, professional communication, and turning technical work into revenue opportunities for the company.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience fine-tuning or post-training generative AI models.
• Strong coding and practical ML skills: experiments, data handling, pipelines.
• Excellent listening and communication skills, able to explain technical work to clients.

Responsibilities

• Understand client needs, translate requests into a clear problem and success criteria.
• Fine-tune/post-train models to address client needs and evaluate outcomes.
• Build workflows around models, integrating APIs and processing steps for deployment.

Skills

Model fine-tuning

ML engineering

Client-facing

Communication

Independent work

Tools

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

APIs

Job description

Pika is seeking a technically strong, client-facing AI researcher to turn customer feedback into models and workflows that solve real business needs.

You will work directly with clients to understand goals, tailor model outputs, and build the supporting workflows for deployment. This role emphasizes delivery, professional communication, and turning technical work into revenue opportunities for the company.