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Research Scientist / Engineer – Pre-training / Scaling

Luma AI
Palo Alto, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/6/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/15/2026
About The Role

At Luma, the Pre-Training / Scaling team is responsible for building the core multimodal AI systems that power our entire platform. Working at the forefront of generative AI research, this team develops the fundamental architectures and training methodologies that enable our models to see, hear, understand, and interact with the world across video, image, text, and audio modalities.

Responsibilities

  • Lead cutting-edge research in multimodal foundation models spanning video, image, text, and audio
  • Design and implement novel algorithms, architectures, and techniques for large-scale generative AI models
  • Develop training methodologies for foundation models across thousands of GPUs
  • Research and implement state-of-the-art techniques in Autoregressive LLMs, Vision Language Models, and / or Diffusion Models.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to transition research into production systems

Experience

  • Expertise in Python and PyTorch with experience building ML models from scratch
  • Deep understanding of multimodal generative models and deep learning architectures
  • (Preferred) Strong research track record in generative AI with published work in top-tier venues preferred
  • (Preferred) Experience with large-scale distributed training systems

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Salary : $180,000 - $250,000

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