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Forward Deployed Engineer

Luma AI· Product Engineering
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Hybrid (SF Bay Area, CA)$200k - $325kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Forward Deployed Engineers turn models into customer-ready systems by embedding with clients, defining problems, and building production solutions using Luma’s APIs, models, and tools. They own end-to-end projects in real environments, working directly with customers to understand workflows and constraints, and collaborate with R&D to productize recurring patterns.

Responsibilities

  • Work directly with customers to understand their workflows, constraints, and goals.
  • Define the problem — there is no PRD waiting for you.
  • Build production systems on Luma's APIs, models, and internal tools.
  • Prototype, ship, iterate, and maintain systems that customers depend on inside of real environments with real data.
  • Own projects end-to-end, from first conversation to deployed system.
  • Identify the patterns worth productizing and feed them back to platform and R&D.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
  • 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Strong proficiency in at least one general-purpose language (Python, TypeScript, Go, or similar)
  • Experience building and shipping software end-to-end
  • Ability to work across the stack and learn unfamiliar systems quickly
  • Ability and interest to travel as needed to client sites

Skills

Required:Software engineeringGeneral-purpose programming languagesEnd-to-end system delivery
Last updated Jul 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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