Luma AI
Staff Product Software Engineer
Redwood City, CA · Staff+
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About the role
- You'll set technical direction for how products get built at Luma, directing AI coding agents to ship production systems fast while making the disciplined calls on scope, structure, and trade-offs.
- This is a senior role where judgment, not typing, is the constraint.
- If you measure your impact by lines of code written, this isn't framed for you.
Requirements
- 8+ years building and shipping production software.
- Strong technical depth (system design, distributed systems, security, infrastructure) or strong product intuition (user empathy, prioritization, UX taste), ideally both.
Nice to have
- Luma is an equal opportunity employer.
- Make and stand behind hard trade-offs between speed, reliability, complexity, and extensibility.
- Multiple non-trivial projects where you owned technical direction and execution end to end.
- High-stakes technical decisions that materially affected a system or product.
- Fluency with AI coding tools, used to ship real functionality in production or substantial side projects.
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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