Senior AI Systems Architect & Product Leader

Luma AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Luma AI in San Francisco is seeking senior engineers who can guide AI-driven systems from concept to production. You will set technical direction, shape architecture, and own critical outcomes end-to-end in a fast-moving AI lab.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years shipping production software, a track record of leading major projects, and fluency with AI coding tools. You will mentor teams, balance speed and rigor, and help turn research breakthroughs into scalable products.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and shipping production software.
• Led multiple non-trivial projects, owning technical direction and execution end-to-end.
• Made high-stakes technical decisions that materially affected a system or product.
• Fluent with AI coding tools and have used them to ship real functionality in production or substantial side projects.

Responsibilities

• Direct AI coding agents to build production systems quickly, while maintaining discipline around system design, ownership, and real-world behavior.
• Decide what to build and what not to build as implementation costs drop.
• Set technical direction across engineering, including system boundaries, data models, ownership, and operational expectations.
• Co-own product direction in partnership with design and research, defining both what we build and how we build it.
• Make and stand behind hard tradeoffs between speed, reliability, complexity, and extensibility.
• Shape architecture early, before decisions harden into constraints.
• Own critical outcomes end-to-end, from problem framing to deployment and iteration.

Skills

AI coding tools

System design

Distributed systems

Security

Infrastructure

Technical leadership

Product intuition

Job description

Luma AI in San Francisco is seeking senior engineers who can guide AI-driven systems from concept to production. You will set technical direction, shape architecture, and own critical outcomes end-to-end in a fast-moving AI lab.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years shipping production software, a track record of leading major projects, and fluency with AI coding tools. You will mentor teams, balance speed and rigor, and help turn research breakthroughs into scalable products.