Forward Deployed Engineer

About Luma

A new class of intelligence is emerging, systems that understand and generate the world across video, images, audio, and language. Building multimodal AGI is not just a research problem. It’s a full-stack engineering problem, spanning training systems, inference, product architecture, and the tight feedback loops between them.

When a new technological wave begins, the highest leverage place to be is at the foundation. Not at a startup wrapping someone else’s API. At the company building the models themselves. The frontier is not incremental improvement. These models are replacing entire categories of software and enabling entirely new ones.

What You’ll Do

• Work directly with customers to understand their workflows, constraints, and goals.
• Define the problem — there is no PRD waiting for you.
• Build production systems on Luma's APIs, models, and internal tools.
• Prototype, ship, iterate, and maintain systems that customers depend on inside of real environments with real data.
• Own projects end-to-end, from first conversation to deployed system.
• Identify the patterns worth productizing and feed them back to platform and R&D.
• Raise the Bar FDEs leverage AI to accelerate implementation, but the core of the role is engineering judgment — knowing what to build, how to structure it, and how to make it work reliably in messy real-world environments.

Who You Are

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong proficiency in at least one general-purpose language (Python, TypeScript, Go, or similar)
• Experience building and shipping software end-to-end
• Ability to work across the stack and learn unfamiliar systems quickly
• Ability and interest to travel as needed to client sites