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Pika · Palo Alto, CA · posted today
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| Employer | Pika |
|---|---|
| Location | Palo Alto, California |
| Field | Technology › Data, analytics and AI |
| Level | not stated |
| Source category | Frontier Research, Frontier Research |
| Posted | 2026-11-10 (today) |
| Work arrangement | On-site at the location listed |
| Pay | Not published in the source listing |
At Pika, we're looking for a technically strong, client-facing AI researcher who can turn customer feedback into models and workflows that solve real business needs. You'll work directly with clients to understand what they want to achieve, identify where current model outputs fall short, and fine-tune or post-train models for their use cases. When the solution calls for more than model adaptation, you'll build the supporting workflow.
This is a full-time, hands-on, revenue-driven applied research role. Clear communication, professional client service, reliable delivery, and independent execution matter as much as technical ability. You'll help clients get value quickly, build their confidence in working with Pika, and help turn successful technical work into closed engagements and ongoing business.
Understand the client's needs. Listen carefully, ask focused questions, and translate requests and feedback into a clear problem, practical scope, and agreed success criteria.
Adapt models for real use cases. Fine-tune and post-train models to address client needs. Prepare relevant examples and evaluation criteria, diagnose gaps, and verify that each iteration improves the outcomes the client cares about.
Build the complete solution. Create or adapt workflows around models when needed, connecting APIs, tools, and processing steps into a usable solution that fits the client's deployment needs.
Iterate quickly with clients. Share working results early, gather specific feedback, and make focused improvements in short cycles. Balance quality, complexity, cost, and delivery speed to keep projects moving.
Communicate professionally. Explain technical options and limitations clearly, set realistic expectations, respond thoughtfully to requests, and keep clients informed about progress and next steps. Build a relationship that makes them want to continue working with Pika.
Own execution and coordinate with the team. Drive day-to-day work with independence while keeping teammates aligned on requirements, priorities, progress, and blockers. Ask for input or escalate risks early when needed.
Deliver for deployment. Help move successful experiments into usable deployments, with clear evaluation results, reproducible workflows, and the documentation needed for handoff.
Help close client engagements. Demonstrate the solution's value, address technical concerns, and work with the team to turn successful iterations into client commitments and revenue.
Hands-on experience fine-tuning or post-training generative AI models, with the ability to diagnose model behavior and evaluate whether an adaptation solves the intended problem.
Strong coding and practical ML skills: you can implement experiments, work with data, debug model pipelines, and build supporting workflows.
Excellent listening and communication skills. You can understand an ambiguous request, clarify what matters, and explain technical work to clients with different levels of expertise.
Professional judgment, reliability, and a service mindset. You handle feedback constructively, communicate limitations honestly, take ownership of commitments, and build trust through consistent follow-through.
Independence and ownership, combined with strong communication and collaboration within the team.
The ability to work in fast feedback cycles, prioritize the highest-impact improvements, and connect technical decisions to client value and commercial outcomes.
Prior professional experience in a similar client-facing AI or ML role, with end-to-end delivery from requirements and model adaptation through evaluation, integration, and deployment. This experience is strongly preferred.
Delivering reliable AI solutions for external clients or users and supporting them through feedback and iteration.
LoRA fine-tuning, other parameter-efficient adaptation methods, or feedback-driven post-training.
Building model evaluation pipelines, API integrations, or workflows used in a deployed product.
Participating in customer demos, technical pilots, or the delivery of paid projects.
Success is measured by how well you serve clients, how quickly you turn feedback into useful improvements, and how reliably your work meets their deployment needs. Strong performance builds client trust, helps close engagements, encourages continued collaboration, and contributes to revenue.
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How Palo Alto compares. Among the 145 largest places in California, Palo Alto is #122 by population, #4 for college degrees (#1 = most), #139 for rent (#1 = cheapest), #7 for household income (#1 = highest). Its county, Santa Clara County, is #1 of 58 counties for average pay ($197,043).
Palo Alto has 67,237 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 0.2% of the population of California. It covers 24 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 2,796 people per square mile. The median age is 43.6, 15% older than the state median (43.6 against 37.9).
The median gross rent is $3,484 a month (rent plus utilities), 71% above the state median ($3,484 against $2,036). Over a year that is 18.1% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is above $2 million (the ACS reports $2,000,001 as its highest value, so the true median is higher), which is at least 8.7 times the median household income ($231,101); a ratio above 5 usually means buying is out of reach without savings or a second income. 54.6% of households own their home, about the same as the state average (54.6% against 55.9%).
The San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metropolitan area has 1,134,970 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $84,050 a year, 65% above the national median ($84,050 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are computer and mathematical (149,970 jobs, median $186,320); management (115,110 jobs, median $210,750); business and financial operations (94,210 jobs, median $125,240). The area is most specialised in computer and mathematical (3.9 times) and architecture and engineering (2.5 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($210,750) and legal ($195,190). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Santa Clara County was 4.2%. 62.3% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Santa Clara County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.
Among workers, 44.2% drive alone, 2.0% use public transit, 4.6% walk, 35.4% work from home. 8.2% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 58% below the state average (8.2% against 19.4%). Remote work is more common than in the state as a whole, which widens the set of employers a resident can work for without moving.
82.3% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 122% above the state share (82.3% against 37.1%). 37.0% of residents were born outside the United States, 37% above the state share (37.0% against 27.0%). The poverty rate is 6.0%, 50% below the state rate (6.0% against 12.0%).
The warmest month is Aug, averaging 68°F (19.8°C), and the coolest is Jan at 47°F (8.3°C). About 510 mm (20 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Dec is the wettest month (114 mm) and Jul the driest (0 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.
Closest cities in this guide: Los Altos Hills (2 miles, similar rent); Los Altos (3 miles, similar rent); Mountain View (4 miles, rent 12% lower); East Palo Alto (5 miles, rent 36% lower). Rent differences are against Palo Alto; use the Compare tab to put any two cities side by side.
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Places within 50 miles (straight line) of Palo Alto, CA that have a guide, with what living there costs. No pay estimate is shown because the title did not match one occupation.
| Place ⇅ | Distance from the job city ⇅ | Median rent ⇅ | Median home value ⇅ | Median household income ⇅ | Commute 45+ min ⇅ | Rent as % of occupation pay ⇅ | Open jobs there ⇅ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palo Alto, CA | 0 mi | $3,484 | $2,000,001 | $231,101 | 8.2% | n/a | Jobs |
| Los Altos Hills, CA | 2 mi | $3,501 | $2,000,001 | $250,001 | 18.0% | n/a | — |
| Los Altos, CA | 3 mi | $3,501 | $2,000,001 | $250,001 | 8.3% | n/a | — |
| Mountain View, CA | 4 mi | $3,062 | $1,927,000 | $189,917 | 9.3% | n/a | Jobs |
| East Palo Alto, CA | 5 mi | $2,244 | $1,102,600 | $113,493 | 9.7% | n/a | — |
| Atherton, CA | 5 mi | $3,501 | $2,000,001 | $250,001 | 7.0% | n/a | — |
| Menlo Park, CA | 6 mi | $3,239 | $2,000,001 | $210,025 | 11.5% | n/a | Jobs |
| Sunnyvale, CA | 6 mi | $3,039 | $1,801,800 | $186,170 | 9.0% | n/a | Jobs |
| Cupertino, CA | 8 mi | $3,501 | $2,000,001 | $234,707 | 9.1% | n/a | Jobs |
| Redwood City, CA | 9 mi | $2,968 | $1,801,700 | $157,814 | 10.2% | n/a | Jobs |
| Newark, CA | 10 mi | $2,776 | $1,142,800 | $169,064 | 22.2% | n/a | Jobs |
| San Carlos, CA | 10 mi | $2,854 | $2,000,001 | $237,470 | 14.9% | n/a | Jobs |
| Santa Clara, CA | 10 mi | $3,016 | $1,582,600 | $178,958 | 8.9% | n/a | Jobs |
| Saratoga, CA | 11 mi | $3,501 | $2,000,001 | $250,001 | 8.3% | n/a | — |
| Belmont, CA | 12 mi | $2,875 | $2,000,001 | $205,297 | 18.6% | n/a | Jobs |
| Fremont, CA | 13 mi | $2,933 | $1,403,800 | $181,506 | 23.6% | n/a | Jobs |
| Foster City, CA | 13 mi | $3,501 | $1,838,200 | $199,143 | 20.6% | n/a | Jobs |
| Campbell, CA | 13 mi | $2,737 | $1,617,000 | $145,268 | 10.4% | n/a | Jobs |
| Milpitas, CA | 14 mi | $3,120 | $1,251,700 | $178,798 | 15.2% | n/a | Jobs |
| San Mateo, CA | 15 mi | $3,077 | $1,618,700 | $153,504 | 15.8% | n/a | Jobs |
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How far Palo Alto, CA is from the 20 largest US cities, in straight-line miles (not driving distance). Click a column to sort.
| From ⇅ | Straight-line distance (miles) ⇅ | Population of that city ⇅ |
|---|---|---|
| San Jose, CA | 19 mi | 990,138 |
| San Francisco, CA | 54 mi | 830,235 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 313 mi | 3,857,263 |
| San Diego, CA | 425 mi | 1,389,526 |
| Phoenix, AZ | 624 mi | 1,642,323 |
| Seattle, WA | 706 mi | 754,195 |
| Denver, CO | 945 mi | 718,877 |
| Oklahoma City, OK | 1,372 mi | 697,125 |
| Fort Worth, TX | 1,433 mi | 963,194 |
| San Antonio, TX | 1,463 mi | 1,479,835 |
| Dallas, TX | 1,465 mi | 1,307,930 |
| Austin, TX | 1,478 mi | 979,539 |
| Houston, TX | 1,621 mi | 2,328,253 |
| Chicago, IL | 1,847 mi | 2,711,226 |
| Indianapolis, IN | 1,938 mi | 885,860 |
| Columbus, OH | 2,102 mi | 914,802 |
| Charlotte, NC | 2,287 mi | 903,844 |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2,355 mi | 977,670 |
| Philadelphia, PA | 2,512 mi | 1,579,706 |
| New York, NY | 2,565 mi | 8,483,844 |
| City ⇅ | Straight-line distance ⇅ | Open jobs ⇅ |
|---|---|---|
| Sunnyvale, CA | 6 mi | 185 |
| Redwood City, CA | 9 mi | 47 |
| Belmont, CA | 12 mi | 2 |
| Fremont, CA | 13 mi | 8 |
| Campbell, CA | 13 mi | 7 |
| Milpitas, CA | 14 mi | 15 |
| San Jose, CA | 19 mi | 898 |
| Pleasanton, CA | 24 mi | 7 |
| Alameda, CA | 25 mi | 37 |
| Capitola, CA | 31 mi | 1 |
| San Francisco, CA | 54 mi | 3,425 |
| Sacramento, CA | 89 mi | 56 |
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