Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure

Luma AI

Luma AI

Software Engineering, Other Engineering
Palo Alto, CA, USA
USD 150k-300k / year + Equity
Posted on Jul 29, 2025

Location

Palo Alto, CA

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Applied Research

Compensation

  • $150K – $300K • Offers Equity

We are looking for people with strong Backend Data Engineering capabilities to build highly efficient, resilient systems & pipelines for large-scale data processing. You’ll be part of Luma’s applied research team and work directly on mission critical work-streams utilizing thousands of GPUs.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build and automate infrastructure for processing data across multiple clusters of thousands of GPUs.

  • Work with researchers to identify and implement technical data requirements, and optimize distributed loading for model training.

  • Work cross-functionally for diverse backend engineering needs.

  • Design & build performant infrastructure to manage and leverage large-scale datasets for our model training.

Experience

  • Very strong generalist python coding.

  • Requirement of 5+ years of engineering, including 2+ years of work experience in petabyte-level data processing.

  • Experience engineering large-scale systems that process and serve petabytes of data.

  • Deep understanding of Kubernetes, SLURM, Ray and other cluster orchestration systems.

  • Experience working with visual data.Experience working closely with ML is a strong plus .

Compensation Range: $150K - $300K