Luma AI
Software Engineer, Inference
Redwood City, CA
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About the role
- This is large-scale inference systems work: scheduling, fleet management, deployment pipelines, and reliability across clusters and hardware providers.
- It fits a strong systems engineer comfortable with model serving and Kubernetes at scale.
- If you want pure modeling rather than the systems that run models, this is firmly the systems side.
Requirements
- Experience deploying models with PyTorch, Hugging Face, vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, or similar.
- Experience with queues, scheduling, traffic control, and fleet management at scale.
- Experience with Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes, and with orchestration, deployment, and scheduling.
- Familiarity with Redis and S3-compatible storage.
- Strong Python and system-architecture skills.
Nice to have
- Modern networking stacks including RDMA (RoCE, InfiniBand, NVLink).
- High-performance large-scale ML systems (100+ GPUs).
- CUDA, and FFmpeg or multimedia processing.
- 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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