Luma AI
Product Manager, Applied Research
Redwood City, CA
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About the role
- It requires someone who can genuinely operate in a research environment and influence without authority.
- If you need a defined playbook or can't read an eval, this won't work.
- We believe multimodality is critical for intelligence - the next step beyond language models comes from vision.
Requirements
- Principal or Staff-level PM experience bridging research and product at an AI lab or applied AI company.
- A track record shipping products that originated in research, not just optimizing existing ones.
- The ability to influence without authority.
- Genuine comfort in a research environment: reading evals, understanding them, and asking the right questions.
- The technical depth to build prototypes yourself - work with models, write prompts, test hypotheses.
- Very high agency and a general-manager mindset weighing technical novelty against commercial impact.
Nice to have
- Research PM, Applied Research PM, or Labs PM experience at a frontier AI company (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta AI, Cohere, Mistral).
- Background in multimodal AI, and Python and SQL proficiency.
- Experience defining evaluation frameworks and quality bars for shipping research into production.
- Founder-type background, and domain exposure in marketing, advertising, or entertainment.
- Luma is an equal opportunity employer.
Compensation
- $30k-$60k
Company info
- You'll own the bridge between Luma's frontier research and its products - Canvas, Agents, and the model platform - making sure what researchers build is shaped by what customers need, and what ships takes full advantage of what research makes possible.
- Luma's mission is to build unified general intelligence that can generate, understand, and operate in the physical world.
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