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Luma AILuma AIPalo Alto, CA

Research Scientist / Engineer — Multimodal Agent

Builds and trains large-scale multimodal agentic models involving reasoning, planning, coding, and tool calling. Requires strong ML foundations, PyTorch expertise, and experience with distributed training on massive datasets.

250k – 450k/yr
HybridML Engineering

About the role

What You'll Do

Modeling

  • Architect large-scale multimodal agentic models that use reasoning, planning, coding, and tool calling to achieve complex, multi-step multimodal work.

Data

  • Hillclimbing existing tasks and formulating new tasks through data.
  • Design, implement, and run robust data pipelines for constructing, enriching, and filtering massive pixel datasets.

Systems

  • Train large-scale multimodal models on massive datasets and GPU clusters.

Evaluation

  • Define and build novel evaluation frameworks to measure multimodal agents.

Who You Are

  • Strong foundation in machine learning, foundation models and agentic systems.
  • Deep understanding of agentic systems and approaches in LLM/VLM reasoning, coding models, LLM/VLM tool calling.
  • Hands-on experience with PyTorch and large-scale training (distributed, mixed precision, large datasets).

What Sets You Apart (Bonus Points)

  • Experience in the following around data, modeling, or evaluation: State-of-the-art foundation models in reasoning, State-of-the-art foundation models in coding, State-of-the-art foundation models in tool calling, State-of-the-art multimodal agents.

Compensation

  • The base pay range for this role is $250,000 – $450,000 per year.

Skills

PyTorchMachine LearningFoundation ModelsLLMsVlmDistributed TrainingMixed Precision TrainingMultimodal ModelsAgentic SystemsReasoning ModelsCoding ModelsTool CallingData PipelinesGpu Clusters

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