Forward Deployed Engineer (EU)

A new class of intelligence is emerging, systems that understand and generate the world across video, images, audio, and language. Building multimodal AGI is not just a research problem. It’s a full-stack engineering problem, spanning training systems, inference, product architecture, and the tight feedback loops between them.

When a new technological wave begins, the highest leverage place to be is at the foundation. Not at a startup wrapping someone else’s API. At the company building the models themselves.

The frontier is not incremental improvement. These models are replacing entire categories of software and enabling entirely new ones.

At Luma, we are:

We’re still early. The playbook is not written. A single exceptional engineer can reshape how the company operates.

Forward 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.

This 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.

You may have been:

What ties these together: you've made the call yourself, you've shipped against ambiguity, and you know the difference between "delivered" and "actually used."

FDEs 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. Breadth, product intuition, and customer empathy matter more here than narrow specialization. We're not looking for unicorns; we're looking for builders who can hold all three.

The base pay range for this role is €130,000 – €215,000 per year.

Luma’s mission is to build unified general intelligence that can generate, understand, and operate in the physical world.

We believe that multimodality is critical for intelligence. To go beyond language models and build more aware, capable and useful systems, the next step function change will come from vision. So, we are working on training and scaling up multimodal foundation models for systems that can see and understand, show and explain, and eventually interact with our world to effect change.