Luma AI
Research Scientist / Engineer – Foundation Model: Core Research
Redwood City, CA
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About the role
- You'll architect the reasoning core at the heart of Luma's world-modeling — the intelligence governing the world-simulations behind products like Dream Machine and Ray3. This is core research that powers everything Luma ships.
- The role treats science and engineering as one discipline: you'll work across modeling, data, systems, and evaluation on problems where no playbook exists. It fits someone with first-principles intuition for scaling who understands why architectures succeed or fail, not just what the literature says. If you want to specialize narrowly in only the science or
Responsibilities
- Drive the core research powering all of Luma's products - co-design multimodal representations, advance long-context training, and establish rigorous scaling laws.
Requirements
- Practical experience with distributed or high-performance computing and optimizing training runs on large GPU clusters.
- Close the gap between training loss and user experience with proxy tasks and automated metrics that guide research decisions.
- A Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Physics, or Mathematics.
- First-principles intuition for scaling: you understand why architectures succeed or fail at scale.
- Fluency across frontier AI research and engineering as a single discipline.
- Proven ability to design and rigorously analyze experiments and articulate complex concepts.
Nice to have
- A track record of publishing at top-tier venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR).
- Strong software-engineering practices: readable, reusable code, tests, and documentation.
- Experience with low-precision training and hardware-aware optimization for next-gen clusters.
- Luma is an equal opportunity employer.
Compensation
- $30k-$60k
Benefits
- We believe multimodality is critical for intelligence - the next step beyond language models comes from vision.
Company info
- Luma's mission is to build unified general intelligence that can generate, understand, and operate in the physical world.
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