About Luma
Luma’s mission is to build multimodal AI that expands human imagination. We’re creating the Creative Partner, an AI agent designed to amplify, not replace, human creativity.This is a rare opportunity to define and build a novel agentic system from the ground up. You’ll be working at the frontier, creating new interaction paradigms for a product that will reach millions, and turning ambitious research into something magical, reliable, and scalable.
What You’ll Do
This is not a role for maintaining legacy systems or making incremental tweaks. This is a zero-to-one opportunity to build the future of creative interaction. You will:
- Invent from First Principles: Architect the core of our agentic stack, moving beyond standard patterns to create a truly novel visual reasoning system.
- Ship Frontier Prototypes: Rapidly prototype and ship breakthrough agentic workflows that explore the absolute edge of creative AI, pushing past the limitations of today's VLMs and RAG systems.
- Build for Scale & Magic: Own the systems that make these experiences possible, ensuring they are low-latency, high-fidelity, and reliable for millions of creators.
- Bridge Research to Product: Partner directly with our world-class research and design teams to transform bleeding-edge models into magical, intuitive product experiences.
What We’re Looking For
We’re seeking a proven builder with deep technical skills, product intuition, and a passion for how AI can augment creativity.You might lean toward:
- Creative prototyping: building imaginative agent experiences from first principles.
- Systems scaling: architecting low-latency agentic platforms for millions of users.
Either way, you’ve shipped ambitious projects, think from the user’s perspective, and thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments. Above all, you are driven by a genuine curiosity to discover what's possible at the intersection of AI and human creativity.
Required Experience:
- 5+ years of professional engineering experience OR an equivalent portfolio of advanced, relevant projects.
- Demonstrated ability to build experiences that cross modalities, with VLMs, diffusion models, or other multimodal systems (speech, video, etc.)
- Strong proficiency in Python and a solid understanding of backend systems and databases.
- Deep experience with AI/LLM frameworks with a track record of pushing beyond their standard functionality.
Bonus Points:
- Experience in Rust or Go.
- Experience with fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, etc.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, or modern cloud infrastructure.
- Background in multimodal systems, especially creative tools involving video or images.
- Highly Encouraged: Portfolio links, open-source contributions, or notable hackathon projects.
Compensation Range: $200K - $300K
