Research Scientist / Engineer – Performance Optimization
Luma AI · London, UK · Remote, UK
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At a glance
Highlights
- Make Luma's multimodal models fast to train efficiently and deploy at scale.
- Own end-to-end speed from diagnosis to multi-node deployment at scale.
- Build monitoring and automation that locks in performance gains.
Ideal candidate
A performance-obsessed engineer who loves squeezing every ounce of speed from hardware without sacrificing quality. You think deeply about model internals and live for finding and fixing bottlenecks at scale.
Requirements
- Expert-level Triton/CUDA programming and GPU optimization
- Strong PyTorch skills, including kernel development and custom operations
- Proficiency with profiling tools (NVIDIA Nsight, torch profiler, custom tooling)
- Deep understanding of transformer architectures and attention mechanisms
Lab profile
About Luma AI
Builds generative AI models for photorealistic video and 3D creation.
What they build
- Dream Machine video generator
- Ray2 video model
- Photon image model
Known for
- Photorealistic video synthesis
- 3D world and object generation
- Large-scale training infrastructure
- High-performance inference optimization
Key facts
- Founded in 2021
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Backed by Andreessen Horowitz