Forward Deployed Engineer

Lumaai; Paris; On-site; EUR 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Luma is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to translate models into production systems for client environments in France. You will embed with customers, learn their workflows, and own the problem from discovery to deployment, using their data and constraints.

This role emphasizes hands-on engineering: build with Luma's APIs and internal tools, prototype and ship systems, and maintain them in real environments with real data. Travel to client sites may be required.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering, end-to-end shipping experience.
• Strong proficiency in at least one general-purpose language (Python, TypeScript, Go, or similar).
• Willingness to travel to client sites as needed.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customers to understand workflows, constraints, and goals, and define the problem.
• Build production systems on Luma's APIs, models, and internal tools.
• Prototype, ship, iterate, and maintain systems customers depend on in real environments with real data.
• Own projects end-to-end, from first conversation to deployed system.
• Feed recurring patterns back to platform and R&D to productize.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Go

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

APIs

Internal tools

Job description

Forward Deployed Engineers turn what Luma's models can do into systems customers actually rely on. You embed with a customer, learn their workflow, define the problem with them, and build the production system that solves it, with their data and their constraints. You own both the relationship and the code.

This is engineering at the edge, where ambiguity is the default and "what should we build?" is yours to answer. It's built for people who've already been the single point of ownership on a hard problem: a technical founder, the engineer who flew out and rebuilt a customer's workflow, a consultant who actually wrote the system. If you need a PRD and a well-defined ticket queue, this isn't it.

What You'll Own

• Work directly with customers to understand their workflows, constraints, and goals, and define the problem yourself.
• Build production systems on Luma's APIs, models, and internal tools.
• Prototype, ship, iterate, and maintain systems customers depend on in real environments with real data.
• Own projects end to end, from first conversation to deployed system.
• Build around platform gaps when something's missing, and feed recurring patterns back to platform and R&D to productize.
• Use AI to accelerate implementation, while the core of the work stays engineering judgment: what to build and how to make it reliable.

First 90 Days

One way the first 90 could unfold.

• Days 1–30 — Immerse & Diagnose: Embed with a first customer, learn their workflow, and define the real problem.
• Days 30–60 — Ship & Validate: Build and deploy a production system they actually use.
• Days 60–90 — Scale & Systemize: Spot the pattern worth productizing and work with R&D to turn it into platform.

What You Bring

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

Nice to Have

• A track record of shipping real systems with real users, not just assigned tasks.
• High agency and strong prioritization: you find the core problem and move.
• Comfort defining your own path when there isn't one.
• Evidence of working directly with customers and translating what you heard into what you built.
• Clear communication, including explaining a technical decision to a non-technical stakeholder.

Luma's mission is to build unified general intelligence that can generate, understand, and operate in the physical world. We believe multimodality is critical for intelligence — the next step beyond language models comes from vision. Luma is an equal opportunity employer.

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