Luma AI
Staff Security Software Engineer
Redwood City, CA · Staff+
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About the role
- This is a hands-on, senior security-builder role.
- If you want a policy-only or review-only security role, this is a builder seat instead.
- We believe multimodality is critical for intelligence - the next step beyond language models comes from vision.
Requirements
- High agency, and the ability to balance pragmatism with long-term rigor.
- You've built and operated security foundations in real production environments.
- Excellent at writing code, reviewing infrastructure, and shipping systems.
- You think in systems and trust boundaries, and understand that software can act with real authority.
- Deep thought about how services, automations, or models are scoped, constrained, and observed.
Nice to have
- Experience evolving organizations toward mature, scalable security architectures.
- Least-privilege access and modern identity models, and durable secrets and credential lifecycle practices.
- Experience securing multi-tenant AI platforms and permissioning autonomous systems.
- Luma is an equal opportunity employer.
Compensation
- $30k-$60k
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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