Staff Software Engineer | Agentic Systems (Ads)
Luma AI
Software Engineering
Palo Alto, CA, USA
USD 170k-360k / year
Posted on Dec 9, 2025
Staff Software Engineer | Agentic Systems (Ads)
Palo Alto, CA • London, UK
Backend Platforms
Hybrid
Full-time
The Opportunity
Luma AI is defining the future of autonomous creativity. We are moving beyond chat interfaces to build intelligent agents that act as creative partners. We offer the rare combination of massive compute resources and funding typically found at major tech companies, coupled with the agility of an early-stage startup.
Where You Come In
You will build the founding infrastructure for a Cursor-like agentic tool designed for the advertising industry. This role involves architecting the reasoning engine and tool-use capabilities that allow AI to automate complex, multi-step creative workflows. You will operate with high autonomy to invent new patterns for state management and orchestration.
What You Will Build
- Agentic Infrastructure: Architect the backend systems that enable autonomous AI agents to plan, execute, and evaluate complex video creation tasks.
- Automated Workflows: Design the orchestration layer that allows models to chain multiple tools, generation, editing, and reasoning, into seamless user experiences.
- Scalable Inference: Develop high-throughput systems that can serve generative media to users, addressing novel challenges in job queuing and processing.
The Profile We Are Looking For
- Systems Thinker: You have a track record of building scalable, distributed systems from scratch and enjoy solving novel problems in asynchronous processing.
- Agentic Interest: You have familiarity with building or deploying agentic systems, co-pilots, or complex LLM-powered workflows.
- Domain Context: You have experience in the ads domain and understand how to apply automation to solve problems for creative agencies or marketers.
Compensation
The base pay range for this role is $170,000 – $360,000 per year.
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Req ID: R100008