Luma AI
Forward Deployed Engineer
Redwood City, CA · Mid
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About the role
- It's built for people who've already been the single point of ownership on a hard problem: a technical founder, the engineer who flew out and rebuilt a customer's workflow, a consultant who actually wrote the system.
- If you need a PRD and a well-defined ticket queue, this isn't it.
- Note: this body covers Forward Deployed Engineer (SF Bay Area) and Forward Deployed Engineer, EU (London / Remote UK / Munich).
Requirements
- 2+ years of professional software engineering, with software shipped end to end.
- Strong proficiency in at least one general-purpose language (Python, TypeScript, Go, or similar).
- Ability to work across the stack and learn unfamiliar systems quickly.
- Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- Willingness to travel to client sites as needed.
Nice to have
- A track record of shipping real systems with real users, not just assigned tasks.
- High agency and strong prioritization: you find the core problem and move.
- Clear communication, including explaining a technical decision to a non-technical stakeholder.
- 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
- Forward Deployed Engineers turn what Luma's models can do into systems customers actually rely on.
- Luma's mission is to build unified general intelligence that can generate, understand, and operate in the physical world.
This listing is sourced directly from Luma AI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.