{"slug": "software-engineer-data-infrastructure-luma-ai", "title": "Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure — Luma AI", "summary": "Luma AI is hiring a Software Engineer for Data Infrastructure in Redwood City, CA, offering a salary of $170k–360k/yr. The role involves building scalable data infrastructure for multimodal AI systems, collaborating with ML researchers, and optimizing large-scale data pipelines.", "body_md": "# Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure\n\n- Salary\n- $170k–360k/yr\n- Location\n- Redwood City, CA\n- Work type\n- Hybrid\n- Posted\n- today\n\n[\nApply on company site (opens in new tab) ](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lumaai/d424c5fd-3135-460e-a50d-ed941f51e80b/application)\n\nAbout the Role\n\nAs a Data Infrastructure Engineer in Research at Luma, you will play a critical role in building and scaling the data infrastructure that supports our cutting-edge multimodal AI systems. Your work will focus on developing high-throughput, large-scale data processing pipelines tailored for machine learning research and internal ML platform needs. You will collaborate closely with ML researchers and product teams to create reliable, efficient, and easy-to-use data infrastructure that empowers innovation and accelerates development. This role requires a strong foundation in distributed systems and data engineering, with an emphasis on supporting complex machine learning workflows rather than traditional product data infrastructure.\n\nResponsibilities\n\n- Build and maintain scalable data infrastructure for high-throughput machine learning workflows\n- Collaborate with ML researchers and product teams to ensure data systems meet evolving needs\n- Develop and optimize large-scale data pipelines and batch processing jobs\n- Contribute to the architecture and implementation of reliable, high-performance data platforms\n- Integrate open-source tools and continuously improve data infrastructure through monitoring and tuning\n- Participate in cross-functional projects to improve data reliability, scalability, and operational excellence\n- Support the evaluation and adoption of new programming languages and frameworks relevant to data infrastructure\n- Engage in continuous improvement of data infrastructure through monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance tuning\n- Collaborate with research & engineering teams to help define and refine best practices for data infrastructure development\n\nQualifications\n\n- Proficiency in Python (or similar languages with willingness to learn Python) and experience with large-scale, high-throughput data infrastructure\n- Familiarity with distributed computing frameworks (e.g., Ray, Spark, Beam)\n- Ability to design and optimize data pipelines for ML research and internal teams\n- Strong problem-solving skills and understanding of data engineering at scale\n- Collaborative, product-focused mindset; comfortable in fast-paced environments\n- Experience sourcing, integrating, and optimizing data from diverse and large datasets\n- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, product-focused environment with a strong execution mindset\n- Open to candidates across seniority levels, from mid-level individual contributors to senior engineers and managers.\n\nNice to have\n\n- Prior experience working with complex data infrastructure or AI/ML platforms highly desirable\n- Experience with open source data infrastructure projects is a plus\n- Experience working in the robotics industry preferred", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/software-engineer-data-infrastructure-luma-ai", "canonical_source": "https://frontierroles.com/jobs/lumaai-software-engineer-data-infrastructure-b05cc4/", "published_at": "2026-08-10 20:35:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-11 01:47:52.207217+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Luma AI"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/software-engineer-data-infrastructure-luma-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/software-engineer-data-infrastructure-luma-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/software-engineer-data-infrastructure-luma-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/software-engineer-data-infrastructure-luma-ai.jsonld"}}