# Staff Software Engineer, Product
**Company:** [Luma AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/lumalabs-ai)
**Location:** Palo Alto, CA
**Salary:** $230K-$360K
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Ai Coding Tools, System Design, Distributed Systems, Security, Infrastructure, Product Intuition, Architecture, Data Models, Mentoring, AI Agents
**Posted:** 2026-02-19
> Directs AI coding agents to build and scale production systems in a multimodal AI lab, setting technical direction, making high-stakes tradeoffs, and co-owning product decisions. Requires 8+ years experience, deep judgment in systems or product, and proven AI tool usage for real outcomes.
## Job Description
## What You’ll Do
- 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.

## Raise the Bar
- Set the standard for technical depth, judgment, and production ownership.
- Prevent avoidable complexity from entering the system as iteration speed increases.
- Mentor engineers on how to use AI tools effectively without lowering engineering rigor.
- Identify and eliminate recurring classes of design mistakes before they scale.

## Multiply the Organization
- Design systems and workflows that allow small teams to ship with outsized impact.
- Attract exceptional engineers and help them grow into high-judgment technical leaders.
- Increase team velocity without increasing operational and conceptual overhead.

## Who You Are (Required)
- 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.
- Possess either: Strong technical depth (system design, distributed systems, security, infrastructure) or strong product intuition (user empathy, prioritization, taste in UX). Ideally both.

## What Sets You Apart
- Personally responsible for at least one clearly measurable, real-world success (e.g., product with 100k+ users, system serving millions of requests/day, open-source project with 10k+ stars).

## Compensation
Base pay range: $230,000 – $360,000 per year.
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