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Senior MLOps Engineer - Production

Luma AI

Luma AI

Palo Alto, CA, USA
USD 220k-280k / year + Equity
Posted on Aug 21, 2025

Location

Palo Alto, CA

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Applied Research

Compensation

  • Estimated base salary $220K – $280K • Offers Equity

Luma’s mission is to build multimodal AI to expand human imagination and capabilities.

We believe that multimodality is critical for intelligence. To go beyond language models and build more aware, capable and useful systems, the next step function change will come from vision. So, we are working on training and scaling up multimodal foundation models for systems that can see and understand, show and explain, and eventually interact with our world to effect change.

Role & Responsibilities

  • Ship new model architectures by integrating them into our inference engine

  • Empower our product team to create groundbreaking features by developing user-friendly APIs and interaction patterns

  • Build sophisticated scheduling systems to optimally leverage our expensive GPU resources while meeting internal SLOs

  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for processing/optimizing model checkpoints, platform components, and SDKs for internal teams to integrate into our products/internal tooling.

Background

  • Strong generalist Python skills

  • Experience with queues, scheduling, traffic-control, fleet management at scale.

  • Extensive experience with Kubernetes and Docker.

  • Bonus points if you have experience with high performance large scale ML systems (>100 GPUs) and/or Pytorch experience.

  • Bonus points if you have experience with ffmpeg and multimedia processing.

Tech stack

Must have

  • Python

  • Kubernetes

  • Redis

  • S3-compatible Storage

Nice to have

  • Pytorch

  • CUDA

  • Ffmpeg

Compensation Range: $220K - $280K