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Software Engineer - AI Agents

Luma AI
Palo Alto, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 8/24/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/4/2025
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

Salary : $200,000 - $300,000

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