Senior Backend Engineer, Luma AI
Product
$180-250k
+ Stock Options
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
AI agents for creative work
Job no longer available
AI agents for creative work
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$180-250k
+ Stock Options
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build multimodal general intelligence that can generate, understand, and operate in the physical world.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is product-minded, has strong coding skills and experience building and deploying software at scale
- You should enjoy working with a fast-paced team to build amazing products, while maintaining high engineering standards
- 5+ years of engineering experience in various tech environments, including product-driven companies
- Strong python skills and deep understanding of end to end backend systems, databases, authorization
- Experience with JavaScript and React for front-end development, and proficiency in Python or any backend language, demonstrating adaptability and a willingness to learn across the stack
- Has prior experience working in startup environments, either as a founder or an early-stage engineer
- Has prior work experience working with user facing API’s
- Value velocity and execution
- Communicate clearly
- Focus on building what will matter to users and the product
- Be resourceful at finding creative ways to overcome challenges
What the job involves
- You will work on building generative AI inference infra at an unprecedented scale
- You’ll be responsible for Luma’s REST APIs, and backend systems
- Design and build the development and production platforms that power our new products, enabling reliability and security at scale
- Own the development of new user-facing generative AI features and product experiences end-to-end
- Partner with researchers, engineers, product managers, and designers to bring new features and research capabilities to the world
- Accelerate engineering productivity by empowering your fellow engineers with excellent tooling and systems
- Like all other teams, we are responsible for the reliability of the systems we build. This includes an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed
Our take
In a world where creators, filmmakers, advertisers, and brands are looking for faster, more flexible ways to produce high-quality visuals, Luma AI is building tools that turn ideas into production-ready footage in second. Its flagship platform, Dream Machines, already empowers millions of users to generate professional-grade video and images from simple text, image, or video prompts and its helping teams stretch their creative budgets, explore more concepts and rethink how storytelling gets made.
In 2025, Luma took a major leap forward with the launch of Ray3, its most advanced video model yet. Ray3 introduces true cinematic capabilities, like native HDR support, natural motion, character consistency, and a built-in reasoning system that lets the model "think through" a scene before generating it. Instead of behaving like a random slot machine, Ray3 can plan shots, understand director, and refine its output the way a real filmmaker would. So creators can storyboard visually with annotations, combine multiple scenes more smoothly, and generate 10-second, high-fidelity clips with far more control that previous models allowed.
This momentum is amplified by a wave of strong partnerships and industry adoption. Adobe selected Ray3 as its first third-party video generation model inside Firefly, giving millions of creative professionals access to Luma's technology directly in their everyday tools like Premiere Pro. The company is also working with major players like the Clio Awards, Dentsu Digital, Monks, StrawberryFrog, and Humain, all using Luma's models to push the boundaries of advertising, entertainment, and personalized content.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2025
$900m
SERIES C
Dec 2024
$20m
LATE VC
Total funding: $987.3m
Company benefits
- Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision for you and your family. Premium plans, zero stress, so you can focus fully on the work.
- Flexible time off: We trust you to manage your time. No accruals, no caps. Just the space to recharge when you need it.
- Premium Equipment: Latest MacBooks, studio-quality headphones, and whatever you need to do your best work. We remove the barriers.
- Learning Stipend: Conferences, courses, books, certifications. Invest in your growth however you choose.
Company HQ
West Oakland, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Amit Jain
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked at Apple as a Computer Vision, Cameras, and Systems Engineer. Prior to that, he was a Software Engineer at Circle Medical and an iOS Engineer at Product Hunt.
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