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# Systems Software Engineer at Lumafield

- **Company:** Lumafield
- **Location:** Boston, MA
- **Compensation:** $120k–$170k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/lumafield/a036458c-267a-4aae-a93a-c1368e18b2b3

## Job description

About Lumafield:

Lumafield was founded in 2019 to upgrade manufacturing.

We are engineers with deep experience across the product development cycle, from initial ideas to shipping hardware, across industries and specializations, who became frustrated by the cost and complexity of modern manufacturing. So we decided to upgrade it.

Engineers make million-dollar decisions every day, and they need tools that give them the greatest possible insight into their products. By offering unprecedented visibility into products, as well as AI-driven tools that highlight problems and generate quantitative data, Lumafield promises to revolutionize the way complex products are created, manufactured, and used across industries. We started with industrial CT scanning, which for us was the most valuable but underutilized tool in the manufacturing toolbox, enabling us to rapidly inspect essential components non-destructively.

We rebuilt the whole system, from X-ray capture, to computer vision analysis, to web-based collaboration, to the entire business model, making the most advanced manufacturing tech more accessible to every industry. Our company, like our platform, is designed for upgrades. We’re building for greater intelligence, autonomy, and speed. For deeper vision, operational excellence, and powerful insights. And then we'll upgrade it all again.

Lumafield is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. and has an office in Cambridge, MA.

About the role:

As a Systems Software Engineer at Lumafield, you will work on the software that powers our next-generation, manufacturing in-line CT scanning products. You'll work on the bleeding edge of X-ray physics, high-speed detectors, image processing, and embedded systems. On a small team working on our newest hardware, you'll bring the skill to extract the highest quality data out of the system and achieve great outcomes for our customers. This role is ideal for candidates who are looking for an opportunity to scale a fleet of embedded devices from hundreds of units to thousands, and introduce production-grade capability to our systems. This role is located in Lumafield’s Cambridge, MA office.

What You'll Do:

- Write performance edge application software to acquire, process, and stream radiograph data

- Write appliance firmware to maintain tight control loops for scanner peripherals

- Participate in code reviews, build up testing infrastructure, and help set a high standard for how the team can move fast and maintain high levels of quality.

- Ship production critical Linux-based applications

- Architect data acquisition solutions that balance configurability and customizability

- Collaborate closely with our product, research, hardware, and software development teams to understand requirements and architect solutions

About You:

- 3+ years of experience writing low-level, high-performance software in Python and C; you not only write code, but also understand the performance impact on a specific system.

- Experience shipping applications with embedded Linux, including configuring core services such as udev, systemd, and kernel schedulers.

- 3+ years of startup experience – you know the trade-offs between shipping fast and perfecting a design.

- Hands-on experience integrating new hardware platforms by using vendor SDKs and manuals to write performant, maintainable driver integrations

- Mastery of software engineering fundamentals including debuggers, profilers, and evaluating trade-offs between different technology choices, and proficiency with Python’s built-in concurrency models (asyncio, threading, and multiprocessing)

- Able to design, integrate, and test systems by interpreting component and product datasheets.

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Bonus Points For:

- Experience building & shipping high performance hardware-accelerated image processing edge solutions using NVIDIA CUDA and/or Jetson platform

- Experience with classical computer vision techniques and machine learning CV algorithms

- Experience with shipping user-facing UIs written in React.js

We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time. All applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.

Lumafield offers both competitive cash and equity compensation, as well as a health & wellness stipend, 401k, parental leave, flexible PTO, commuter benefits, company wide events and more!

Lumafield is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, because the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. Do you feel like your skills don’t meet every single requirement listed? We encourage you to apply anyway – If you’re excited about our technology, the opportunity, and are eager to learn more we’d love to hear from you!

In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, genetic information or veteran status.

Reach out if you want to be a part of what we are building.

## About Lumafield

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Lumafield provides industrial X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanners and cloud-based analysis software that give engineers non-destructive, three-dimensional insight into manufactured parts.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C funded)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (with an additional office in Cambridge, Massachusetts)
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Eduardo Torrealba (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Industrial CT scanning, non-destructive testing, manufacturing intelligence, hardware + software.
- **Target customers**: B2B – engineering teams in manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, medical devices, defense, and consumer goods.
- **Mission/purpose statement**: “Upgrade manufacturing.” The company is building a platform from X-ray capture to computer vision analysis to web-based collaboration to make advanced manufacturing tech accessible to every industry. [lumafield.com/about](https://www.lumafield.com/about)

## Products & Services
- **[Neptune, Triton, Saturn]**: Industrial X-ray CT scanners for R&D and production, offering non-destructive internal inspection of components.
- **[Mars]**: High-volume in-line inspection solution for automated quality assurance on manufacturing lines.
- **[Voyager]**: Cloud-based analysis software that enables engineers to inspect, measure, and collaborate on CT scan data from any browser.

All products are part of an integrated manufacturing intelligence platform. [cbinsights.com/company/lumafield](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/lumafield)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $202.5M; annual revenue reported at $3M (likely early-stage). [linkedin.com/company/lumafield](https://linkedin.com/company/lumafield)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Series C ($75M) led by IVP (April 2025); prior rounds led by Kleiner Perkins, Lux Capital, DCVC. [linkedin.com/company/lumafield](https://linkedin.com/company/lumafield)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 17.8% YoY to ~140 employees; LinkedIn followers up 106.7% yearly to 34,410; actively hiring across engineering, sales, and compliance roles. [linkedin.com/company/lumafield](https://linkedin.com/company/lumafield)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full-stack rebuild**: Lumafield rebuilt the entire CT scanning system – from X-ray capture hardware to computer vision analysis to a web-based collaboration platform – making a historically expensive and complex tool far more accessible.
- **Cloud-native software**: Voyager enables real-time collaboration and analysis without on-premise installation, a differentiator against legacy CT software.
- **Patented technology**: The company holds 15 patents related to 3D X-ray and inspection methods. [cbinsights.com/company/lumafield](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/lumafield)

## Strategic Focus
- **Upgrade manufacturing**: Continue expanding the hardware and software platform to make industrial CT scanning an everyday tool for engineering teams.
- **Scale for high-volume inspection**: Mars (in-line solution) targets production-line quality assurance, opening the market beyond R&D.
- **Defense & regulated industries**: Hiring for Director of Regulatory Compliance & Validation Strategy and Customer Success Manager – Defense & Federal Programs, indicating a push into government and regulated verticals. [jobs.lever.co/lumafield](https://jobs.lever.co/lumafield)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & values**: Core values of speed, curiosity, integrity, and empathy; employees are recognized through quarterly peer-nominated awards (“Mega Kudos”); open-door policy, monthly all-hands, and CEO office hours. [lumafield.com/careers](https://www.lumafield.com/careers)
- **Remote/hybrid**: Hybrid model – new hires attend an onboarding week at Boston HQ; roles based in San Francisco, Cambridge, and El Segundo. [lumafield.com/careers](https://www.lumafield.com/careers)
- **Perks**: Health/vision/dental coverage; paid parental leave; equity for all full-time employees; flexible vacation; mental health & wellness perks; catered lunches & full kitchen; retirement savings. [lumafield.com/careers](https://www.lumafield.com/careers)
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on solving complex problems, hands-on work with manufacturing hardware and software, and collaboration across disciplines (hardware, software, AI/ML). [jobs.lever.co/lumafield](https://jobs.lever.co/lumafield)

## Sources
1. [lumafield.com/careers](https://www.lumafield.com/careers)
2. [lumafield.com/about](https://www.lumafield.com/about)
3. [linkedin.com/company/lumafield](https://linkedin.com/company/lumafield)
4. [cbinsights.com/company/lumafield](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/lumafield)
5. [jobs.lever.co/lumafield](https://jobs.lever.co/lumafield)

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