Research Scientist / Engineer - Pre-training / Scaling
Luma AI
United States · Palo Alto, CA, USA · Remote
USD 187,500-395k / year
Posted on Nov 7, 2025
Research Scientist / Engineer – Pre-training / Scaling
Palo Alto, CA • Remote - US • Remote - International
Research
Remote • Hybrid
Full-time
About the Role
At Luma, the Pre-Training / Scaling team is responsible for building the core multimodal AI systems that power our entire platform. Working at the forefront of generative AI research, this team develops the fundamental architectures and training methodologies that enable our models to see, hear, understand, and interact with the world across video, image, text, and audio modalities.
Responsibilities
- Lead cutting-edge research in multimodal foundation models spanning video, image, text, and audio
- Design and implement novel algorithms, architectures, and techniques for large-scale generative AI models
- Develop training methodologies for foundation models across thousands of GPUs
- Research and implement state-of-the-art techniques in Autoregressive LLMs, Vision Language Models, and / or Diffusion Models.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to transition research into production systems
Experience
- Expertise in Python and PyTorch with experience building ML models from scratch
- Deep understanding of multimodal generative models and deep learning architectures
- (Preferred) Strong research track record in generative AI with published work in top-tier venues preferred
- (Preferred) Experience with large-scale distributed training systems
Your application are reviewed by real people.
The base pay range for this role is $187,500-$395,000 per year.
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