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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
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