Customer-Embedded Systems Engineer (Edge Production)

Luma; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Luma is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with customers in SF Bay Area or remotely across Europe. You will embed with clients, understand their workflows, and define production problems to build reliable systems using Luma's APIs and models.

In this role you will ship end-to-end solutions, iterate on deployments in real environments, and travel to client sites as needed. You’ll join a team that values initiative, clear communication, and hands-on engineering across the stack.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering, with software shipped end to end.
• Strong proficiency in Python, TypeScript, Go, or similar.
• Ability to work across the stack and learn unfamiliar systems quickly.
• Willingness to travel to client sites as needed.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

2+ years of software engineering

Python

TypeScript

Go

Full-stack

Travel to client sites

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Luma is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with customers in SF Bay Area or remotely across Europe. You will embed with clients, understand their workflows, and define production problems to build reliable systems using Luma's APIs and models.

In this role you will ship end-to-end solutions, iterate on deployments in real environments, and travel to client sites as needed. You’ll join a team that values initiative, clear communication, and hands-on engineering across the stack.