Luma AI · 1 day ago
ML Engineer - Platform
Palo Alto, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
5+ years expLuma AI is on a mission to build multimodal AI to expand human imagination and capabilities. They are seeking a foundational member to design and implement critical systems for training and serving next-generation AI models at scale.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIVideoVideo Editing
Responsibilities
Architect end-to-end model serving pipelines and integrate new model architectures from our research team into our core, high-throughput inference engine
Build robust and sophisticated scheduling systems to manage jobs based on cluster availability and user priority, ensuring we optimally leverage thousands of expensive GPU resources
Design and implement dynamic, traffic-based systems for hotswapping models on our GPU workers to maximize fleet efficiency and meet product SLOs
Own the end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, including creating a resilient artifact store to manage all model checkpoints across multiple versions and providers
Develop and maintain user-friendly APIs and interaction patterns that empower our product and research teams to ship groundbreaking features at high velocity
Manage and optimize our complex inference workloads at scale, operating across multiple clusters and hardware providers
Qualification
Required
5+ years of professional engineering experience with deep, hands-on proficiency in Python and complex distributed systems architecture
Extensive, practical experience building and managing systems at scale, specifically with queues, scheduling, traffic-control, and fleet management
Deep expertise in our core infrastructure stack: Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes
Strong experience with Redis, S3-compatible storage, and public cloud platforms (AWS)
Preferred
Experience with high-performance, large-scale ML systems (managing >100 GPUs)
Deep familiarity with PyTorch and CUDA
Experience with modern networking stacks, including RDMA (RoCE, Infiniband, NVLink)
Familiarity with FFmpeg and multimedia processing pipelines
Company
Luma AI
Luma AI develops tools that let users generate photorealistic images and videos from text, image, or video prompts.
51-200 employees
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2025 (10)
2024 (3)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$1.06BKey Investors
HUMAINAndreessen HorowitzAmplify Partners
2025-11-19Series C· $900M
2024-12-06Series B· $90M
2024-01-09Series B· $43M
Leadership Team
Amit Jain
Co-Founder
Recent News
2026-01-09
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