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These models are replacing entire categories of software and enabling entirely new ones.\n\nAt Luma, we are:\n\nA leading multimodal AI research lab, having built one of the world’s strongest video generation models (Ray-3.14).\n\nPushing beyond video toward the next generation of multimodal general intelligence models.\n\nOperating at a scale few companies can match, with the compute and resources to support frontier research ($900M Series C).\n\nFocused on the creative domain, where multimodal systems can have immediate real-world impact.\n\nShipping tightly integrated products that turn research breakthroughs into tools creators actually use.\n\nWe’re still early. The playbook is not written. A single exceptional engineer can reshape how the company operates.\n\nWhere You Come In\nForward Deployed Engineers turn what our models can do into things customers actually rely on. You embed with a customer, learn their workflow, define the problem with them, and build the system that solves it — in production, with their data, with their constraints. You own the relationship and the code. When something is missing in our platform, you build around it. When the same gap shows up across customers, you work with R&D to turn that pattern into product. This is engineering at the edge, where ambiguity is the default and “what should we build?” is yours to answer.\n\nThis role is built for people who have already operated as the single point of ownership for a hard problem — and want to keep doing that, with much better tools.\n\nYou may have been:\n\nA technical founder — you built the product, talked to the first customers, made the calls, and shipped. You miss the pace and the autonomy more than you miss running a company.\n\nAn engineer who became the customer’s engineer — the one who flew out, sat in their office, and rebuilt their workflow because the standard product didn’t fit.\n\nA consultant or architect who codes for real — you didn’t just diagram the system, you wrote it.\n\nA builder with a customer instinct — strong technical foundation, a track record of personal projects with real users, and a pattern of identifying problems and moving on them without waiting.\n\nWhat ties these together: you've made the call yourself, you've shipped against ambiguity, and you know the difference between “delivered” and “actually used.”\n\nWhat You’ll Do\n\nWork directly with customers to understand their workflows, constraints, and goals.\n\nDefine the problem — there is no PRD waiting for you.\n\nBuild production systems on Luma's APIs, models, and internal tools.\n\nPrototype, ship, iterate, and maintain systems that customers depend on inside of real environments with real data.\n\nOwn projects end-to-end, from first conversation to deployed system.\n\nIdentify the patterns worth productizing and feed them back to platform and R&D.\n\nRaise the Bar\nFDEs leverage AI to accelerate implementation, but the core of the role is engineering judgment — knowing what to build, how to structure it, and how to make it work reliably in messy real-world environments. 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