Full-Time

Software Engineer

AI Agents

Posted on 7/25/2025

Luma AI

Luma AI

201-500 employees

Multimodal AI platform for creative workflows

Compensation Overview

$200k - $300k/yr

Palo Alto, CA, USA

In Person

Category
Software Engineering (2)
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Required Skills
Python
Requirements
  • 5+ years of professional engineering experience OR an equivalent portfolio of advanced, relevant projects.
  • Demonstrated ability to build experiences that cross modalities, with VLMs, diffusion models, or other multimodal systems (speech, video, etc.)
  • Strong proficiency in Python and a solid understanding of backend systems and databases.
  • Deep experience with AI/LLM frameworks with a track record of pushing beyond their standard functionality.
Responsibilities
  • Invent from First Principles: Architect the core of our agentic stack, moving beyond standard patterns to create a truly novel visual reasoning system.
  • Ship Frontier Prototypes: Rapidly prototype and ship breakthrough agentic workflows that explore the absolute edge of creative AI, pushing past the limitations of today's VLMs and RAG systems.
  • Build for Scale & Magic: Own the systems that make these experiences possible, ensuring they are low-latency, high-fidelity, and reliable for millions of creators.
  • Bridge Research to Product: Partner directly with our world-class research and design teams to transform bleeding-edge models into magical, intuitive product experiences.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in Rust or Go.
  • Experience with fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, etc.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, or modern cloud infrastructure.
  • Background in multimodal systems, especially creative tools involving video or images.
  • Highly Encouraged: Portfolio links, open-source contributions, or notable hackathon projects.

Luma AI (Luma Labs) builds multimodal AI tools that combine different data types such as text, images, video, and audio to expand human imagination and capabilities. Its flagship product, the Dream Machine, integrates multiple modes of data and interaction to support creative workflows. The company monetizes through subscription-based access to its AI tools for individuals, developers, and teams, as well as through enterprise partnerships. Luma AI differentiates itself by offering tightly integrated multimodal capabilities aimed at creative professionals, businesses, and developers, rather than a single-technology focus. Its goal is to drive the next wave of AI-driven creativity and productivity by helping users create and imagine new possibilities with advanced AI tools.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$987.3M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2021

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Serviceplan Group standardized Luma Agents across 20+ countries for faster development.
  • Publicis Groupe deployed Agents, boosting throughput and brand consistency in MENA.
  • Raised $900M from Humain, valuing Luma at $4B for Middle East expansion.

What critics are saying

  • Google's Nano Banana leads text-to-image, eroding Uni-1's advantages in 6-12 months.
  • Hollywood unions reject Uni-1 over job displacement, halting entertainment adoption.
  • Saudi HUMAIN compute exposes Luma to US-Saudi sanctions crippling inference.

What makes Luma AI unique

  • Uni-1 employs autoregressive generation, outperforming Google's Nano Banana in reasoning tests.
  • Luma Agents coordinate end-to-end creative workflows across text, image, video, and audio.
  • Unified Intelligence architecture integrates multimodal reasoning in a single system.

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Headcount

6 month growth

-9%

1 year growth

-5%

2 year growth

-8%
Pathfounders
Mar 27th, 2026
Luma AI launches Uni-1 unified intelligence model targeting Hollywood creatives

Luma AI has launched Uni-1, a unified intelligence model targeting creatives and Hollywood. The company aims to move beyond the current fragmented approach where separate models handle language, images and video. Jason Day, head of EMEA for Luma AI, said the platform represents a shift in how AI serves creative industries. Rather than functioning as just another image generator, Uni-1 is positioned to potentially power Hollywood productions. The launch comes as the entertainment industry grapples with integrating AI tools into creative workflows whilst addressing concerns about authenticity and job displacement.

Precedence Research
Mar 27th, 2026
Beyond pixels: how Luma AI's Uni-1 is outsmarting Google.

Beyond pixels: how Luma AI's Uni-1 is outsmarting Google. Published: 27 Mar 2026 The AI image generation industry has been a clear leader for several months. Google's Nano Banana model series has set standards for quality, speed, and market acceptance, while competitors like OpenAI and Midjourney have been competing for second place. This ranking changed on Sunday when Luma AI, a startup known for its Dream Machine video generation tool, introduced Uni-1, a model that not only rivals Google in image quality but also fundamentally rethinks how AI creates images. The end of "prompt and pray": Luma AI introduces logic-based imaging. Uni-1 outperforms Google's Nano Banana 2 and OpenAI's GPT Image 1.5 in reasoning-based tests, closely matches Google's Gemini 3 Pro in object detection skills, and does all this at about 10 to 30 percent lower costs at high resolutions. In human preference tests using Elo ratings, Uni-1 takes the lead in overall quality, style, editing, and reference-based generation, according to Luma. Only in pure text-to-image generation does Google's Nano Banana still maintain its top position. According to Precedence Research, the Composite AI Market size accounted for USD 1.72 billion in 2025 and is predicted to increase from USD 2.29 billion in 2026 to approximately USD 29.57 billion by 2035, expanding at a CAGR of 32.90% from 2026 to 2035 as demand grows for the need to combine multiple AI techniques such as machine learning, NLP, and computer vision to solve complex, real-world problems that single-model AI cannot handle efficiently. However, the numbers alone do not capture the importance of this launch. Uni-1 represents a genuine architectural change from the diffusion-based approach that has powered nearly all major image models until now. Uni-1 launched: Luma AI's breakthrough in multimodal reasoning. While tools like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and Google Imagen 3 create images by gradually reducing random noise, Uni-1 uses autoregressive generation, the same token-by-token prediction method that supports large language models to think about its outputs during the generation phase. There is no separation between a system that understands a prompt and a separate system that produces the image. It is a single process, functioning on a unified set of weights. This difference is very important for business clients who are quickly adopting AI image tools for things like advertising, product design, and content processes. A model that can genuinely understand complex instructions, maintain context through multiple revisions, and evaluate its own results reduces the human effort required to move from an idea to a finished product and this is precisely the capability gap that has limited AI's use in professional creative work. A recent report by Precedence Research highlights that the Composite AI Market is benefiting from the need for AI systems that are more accurate, trustworthy, and capable of solving complex problems by integrating multiple techniques, such as machine learning and symbolic reasoning.

TechCrunch
Mar 5th, 2026
Luma launches creative AI agents powered by new 'Unified Intelligence' models

Luma has launched Luma Agents, an AI platform designed to handle end-to-end creative work across text, image, video and audio. The agents are powered by the startup's new Unified Intelligence family of models, built on a single multimodal reasoning system. The platform is being pitched to ad agencies, marketing teams and design studios. Luma says its agents can plan and generate content whilst coordinating with other AI models, including Google's Veo 3, ByteDance's Seedream and ElevenLabs's voice models. Luma has already deployed the platform with clients including Publicis Groupe, Serviceplan and brands like Adidas and Mazda. In one example, the system reportedly converted a $15 million, year-long ad campaign into multiple localised versions in 40 hours for under $20,000. The platform is now available via API.

Adweek
Mar 5th, 2026
Luma AI's AI Agents Promise to End the Multi-Tool Mess

Luma AI's AI agents promise to end the multi-tool mess. The $4 billion company is now targeting the full creative pipeline - from brief to final cut - with AI agents for enterprise teams. March 5, 2026 Brands and agencies have no shortage of AI tools for creative tasks - what they lack is cohesion. Creative teams often jump between image generators, video tools and language models, stitching outputs together manually and coordinating across departments. That patchwork process is what Luma AI says it wants to fix. The Palo Alto-based company, founded in 2021, is launching a new category of end-to-end "creative agents" designed to coordinate and execute professional creative work across text, image, video and audio. Luma spent its first three years building native 3D, image and video models. Now, the company is developing unified systems that work across modalities, with a specific focus on creative output for brands and agencies. The move signals Luma's ambition to become a core part of the workflows for enterprise creative teams. "A couple of years back, most foundational model companies made the bet that the way toward intelligence was large language models," said Caroline Ingeborn, COO of Luma AI. "While that's true - with coding and deep research - that's a sliver." The company has beta tested the agent with more than 100 clients since December. Launch partners include Serviceplan Group and Publicis Groupe Middle East & Turkey. From linear to agent-led. Until now, Ingeborn said, most creative teams have used AI tools for isolated parts of the creative process - generating an image, drafting copy or editing a video. She described the process as a "fragmented" approach. The new agents are designed to collaborate across the entire workflow. The system integrates Luma's proprietary image and video models alongside third-party systems such as Veo, DeepSeek, ElevenLabs and Kling, with the ability for teams to toggle specific models on or off. The goal, Ingeborn said, is to eliminate the constant switching between tools. Today's creative production, she argued, remains highly sequential. "It's upending this process that has been very linear and very expensive, from 'I have a script, then I do a mood board, then I do a video,'" Ingeborn said. "And for every one of these steps your project either gets killed, or you get more money." Luma, which has raised a total of $1.1 billion at a $4 billion valuation, positions itself as building toward multimodal general intelligence. Its latest offering arrives as more companies push into creative AI infrastructure, including Higgsfield, founded by Snap's former generative AI chief. However, Ingeborn argued Luma's differentiation lies in its end-to-end execution layer. "We are seeing that the process is moving from being very linear to being non linear," said Igenborn. "The mission is that we want to build intelligence that can generate and operate and create alongside us humans." Trishla is an Adweek staff reporter covering AI and tech. Recommended videos

Post Magazine
Mar 5th, 2026
Luma launches Luma Agents, powered by Unified Intelligence, for creative work

Luma launches Luma Agents, powered by Unified Intelligence, for creative work. PALO ALTO, CA - Luma (www.lumalabs.ai), the builder of unified multimodal AI systems, has launched Luma Agents, a new class of AI collaborators capable of executing end-to-end creative work. Designed for agencies, marketing teams, studios and enterprise organizations, Luma Agents maintain full context, from initial brief to final delivery, coordinating tools, models and iterations within one unified system. In recent years, many AI systems have been assembled by chaining together separate models for language, vision, video and reasoning, stitching outputs together through orchestration layers. These systems can fragment context and require complex workflows to produce reliable creative results. Luma Agents replace fragmented, multi-model workflows with coordinated execution built on unified reasoning. Instead of switching between disconnected tools and rebuilding context at every step, teams work alongside agents that execute projects end-to-end while maintaining and sharing text, image, video and audio. Luma Agents are built on Unified Intelligence, a new model architecture designed to move beyond the industry's prevailing approach of assembling intelligence in pieces. Unified Intelligence trains a single multimodal reasoning system capable of understanding and generating across formats within the same architecture. The first model built on this architecture is Uni-1. Uni-1 is a decoder-only autoregressive transformer operating over a shared token space that interleaves language and image tokens, allowing both modalities to function as first-class inputs and outputs in the same sequence. This design enables the model to reason in language while imagining and rendering in pixels within the same forward pass. Rather than generating outputs step-by-step across disconnected systems, Uni-1 can plan, visualize and produce creative artifacts as part of a single coherent reasoning process. The result is a foundation where thinking and creation are tightly coupled. Luma Agents can coordinate across leading AI models, including Ray3.14, Veo 3, Sora 2, Kling 2.6, Nano Banana Pro, Seedream, GPT Image 1.5, and ElevenLabs. It can automatically select and route tasks to the best model or capability for each step and maintain persistent context across assets, collaborators and creative iterations. Together, these capabilities allow Luma Agents to function as collaborative AI creatives capable of executing end-to-end creative work. Luma recently showed Post a video that demonstrated Agents' capabilities. In the example, the AI tool was given a single image for reference - in this case, a tube of lipstick. 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