Forward Deployed Engineer

About Luma

• A leading multimodal AI research lab, having built one of the world’s strongest video generation models (Ray-3.14).
• Pushing beyond video toward the next generation of multimodal general intelligence models.
• Operating at a scale few companies can match, with the compute and resources to support frontier research ($900M Series C).
• Focused on the creative domain, where multimodal systems can have immediate real-world impact.
• Shipping tightly integrated products that turn research breakthroughs into tools creators actually use.

• A technical founder — you built the product, talked to the first customers, made the calls, and shipped. You miss the pace and the autonomy more than you miss running a company.
• An engineer who became the customer's engineer — the one who flew out, sat in their office, and rebuilt their workflow because the standard product didn't fit.
• A consultant or architect who codes for real — you didn't just diagram the system, you wrote it.
• A builder with a customer instinct — strong technical foundation, a track record of personal projects with real users, and a pattern of identifying problems and moving on them without waiting.

What You’ll Do

• Work directly with customers to understand their workflows, constraints, and goals.
• Define the problem — there is no PRD waiting for you.
• Build production systems on Luma's APIs, models, and internal tools.
• Prototype, ship, iterate, and maintain systems that customers depend on inside of real environments with real data.
• Own projects end-to-end, from first conversation to deployed system.
• Identify the patterns worth productizing and feed them back to platform and R&D.

Raise the Bar

Who You Are:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong proficiency in at least one general-purpose language (Python, TypeScript, Go, or similar)
• Experience building and shipping software end-to-end
• Ability to work across the stack and learn unfamiliar systems quickly
• Ability and interest to travel as needed to client sites

What Sets You Apart

• A track record of shipping real systems with real users, not just completing assigned tasks.
• High agency and strong prioritization skills — you can figure out the core problem and move.
• Comfort defining your own path when there isn't one.
• Evidence of working directly with customers or users, and translating what you heard into what you built.
• Clear communication, including explaining a technical decision to a non-technical stakeholder.

Compensation

About Luma