--- title: 'Creative Technologist at Luma' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/creative-technologist-luma-london-1edm2ph4be1t' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Creative Technologist at Luma - **Company:** Luma - **Location:** London, United Kingdom - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-07-06 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/lumalabs-ai/am9icG9zdDpahRNcqZKmPgWiAIEvxIgY ## Job description ## About the Role The Creative Technologist works close to the model and close to the craft, and translates between the two every day. Close to the model, you pressure-test new endpoints and features before anyone else on the team, and you turn what Luma can do into working examples, not slides that describe it. You are the build engine behind Forward Deployed Creative: prospects and customers see, touch, and copy what you make. Close to the craft, you bring a professional bar from brands, agencies, or production, so the workflows you build hold up under real creative scrutiny, not just in a demo. This is a hands-on, individual contributor role. If you would rather build the thing than talk about building the thing, this is your seat. ## How You'll Make an Impact Build Engine & Prototyping - Build end-to-end production workflows, from concept to final delivery, tailored to specific brand, agency, and entertainment use cases. - Translate real customer briefs into working prototypes that prove what is possible. - Pressure-test new models, endpoints, and features, developing techniques that push the frontier of generative image and video. - Take handoffs from embedded FDCs and turn account-specific problems into working workflows fast. Demo & Pitch Enablement - Build demo boards that make Luma's value obvious in a live pitch, and partner with Sales on discovery and demo prep. - Build customer boards that FDCs use inside accounts to drive adoption and consumption. - Maintain a library of vertical-specific demos that stays current as models and features ship. Pattern & Playbook Development - Develop reusable boards, templates, and pipelines that scale across accounts and verticals. - Document what works so winning patterns spread across the team instead of living in one person's head. ## What You Bring - Deep, hands-on experience using generative AI for image and video. You work in these tools daily and know where they break and where they shine. - A background in brands, agencies, or film production and VFX. You understand how creative work actually gets made and shipped at a professional bar. - A portfolio that demonstrates taste, craft, and range across mediums. - Speed and a prototyping instinct. You solve creative problems by building, not by planning. - Comfortable working alongside Sales and embedded creatives, translating between commercial goals and creative execution. What Sets You Apart - Experience at an innovative creative agency (e.g., Buck, The Mill) or an in-house tech/brand lab (e.g., Google Creative Lab, Unity). - Hands-on experience building with generative AI APIs or integrating AI tools into production pipelines beyond off-the-shelf use. - A public profile as a creator or thought leader in the generative AI or emerging tech space. ## About Luma ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Luma builds multimodal AI models that can generate, understand, and operate in the physical world, shipping them in products like Dream Machine for creators and teams. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series C) - **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, USA - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Not publicly listed on official sources ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Artificial Intelligence / Generative AI / Creative AI - **Target customers**: B2B (enterprises, agencies, developers) and B2C (creators, filmmakers) - **Mission or purpose statement**: To build unified general intelligence that can generate, understand, and operate in the physical world. ## Products & Services - **Luma Dream Machine**: Consumer-facing product for turning ideas into compelling visuals (video, image, audio, text) using generative AI. - **Ray 3.2 API**: Production-grade video generation API with full creative control—multi-keyframe (up to 16), V2V up to 20 seconds, reframe, 1080p output, native HDR, and 16-bit EXR export. - **Uni-1.1 API**: Multimodal reasoning model API for image generation (text-to-image, reference-guided) and natural-language image editing, with up to nine reference inputs per request. - **Luma Agents**: Agentic creative workflows that plan, generate, iterate, and refine across every stage of creative work—available in the Luma App and trusted by teams at Publicis Groupe, Serviceplan, Mazda, Dentsu, and Humain. - **Open Physical AI Lab**: An open science effort to solve generalization in physical AI, built in the open for the benefit of all humanity. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metrics**: Total Funding: $1.3B+ (official site) / $1.057B (LinkedIn); Annual Revenue: $5M (LinkedIn estimate); Users worldwide: 30M+; Team Members: 250+ - **Notable Investors/Partners**: HUMAIN (led Series C), Andreessen Horowitz (led Series B), Amplify Partners (led Series A), Matrix (led Seed Round). Partners include Envato, Comfy, Runware, Flora, Krea, Magnific, Fal, LovArt. - **Growth Signals**: 250+ team members, 30M+ users, $1.3B+ total funding, 45% yearly LinkedIn follower growth, recent product launches (Ray3.2, Uni-1.1, Luma Skills, Wonder Project partnership), $900M Series C raised November 2025. ## Competitive Advantages - **Full-stack AI**: Luma builds its own foundation models end-to-end, rather than wrapping third-party models—giving it unique control over quality, latency, and cost. - **Multimodal reasoning**: Uni-1 understands intention and responds to direction, not just prompts—offering brand intelligence at the model level. - **Cinematic-grade output**: Ray 3.2 delivers 1080p, native HDR, 16-bit EXR export—production-ready for professional film and advertising pipelines. - **Open science commitment**: The Open Physical AI Lab publishes research openly, attracting top-tier research talent and fostering community trust. - **Speed & cost**: Claims less than half the price and latency of comparable models. ## Strategic Focus - **Scaling enterprise adoption**: Custom deployment for creative teams at scale across advertising, film, and gaming production pipelines. - **Agentic workflows**: Building Luma Agents as a force multiplier for creative teams—automating repetitive tasks while maintaining brand consistency. - **Physical AI research**: Advancing the Open Physical AI Lab to solve generalization in physical AI, bridging digital generation with real-world operation. - **API ecosystem growth**: Expanding the developer platform with two tiers (Build and Scale) and SDKs for Python and JavaScript/TypeScript. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & mission**: "We believe real-world physics is the path to general intelligence. We unite research, product, and go-to-market into one engine." Described as a "lean, high-achieving team" building the future of creative intelligence. - **Compensation & benefits**: Competitive compensation, 100% covered medical/dental/vision for employee and family, $1,500/year learning stipend, catered meals, team events, home office setup. - **Work mode**: On-site roles in Redwood City, CA with additional offices in New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; and international locations (Munich, Paris, London, Berlin). - **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on shipping frontier research directly into products—"frontier research ships straight into the hands of working creatives." Hiring across research, systems engineering, infrastructure, design, and product. - **Hiring process**: Transparent and fast—aims to complete within 2-3 weeks. Application review within a week, then recruiter screen, hiring manager interview, and team/leadership interviews. - **Employee ratings**: 4.1/5.0 on LinkedIn (9 reviews)—Work-Life: 3.6, Compensation: 4.4, Culture: 4.1, Career: 4.2. - **Open roles**: 46+ open positions including Forward Deployed Engineer, Research Scientist, Software Engineer, Robotics Engineer, Simulation Researcher, Site Reliability Engineer, Product Marketing Manager, Enterprise Account Executive, and more. ## Sources 1. [lumalabs.ai - Careers](https://lumalabs.ai/careers) 2. [lumalabs.ai - Official Site](https://lumalabs.ai/) 3. [lumalabs.ai - LLM Info](https://lumalabs.ai/llm-info) 4. 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