Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI
Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI at Luminai — San Mateo, CA, US
- Company: Luminai
- Location: San Mateo, CA, US
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Salary: USD 170000–250000 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
As a Senior Software Engineer working on AI systems, you will play a foundational role in research, experimentation and rapid improvement of AI systems towards building a capable, reliable AI automation platform. The platform is used by organizations worldwide to deploy and scale executable AI automations in mission critical production environments. You are expected to have a strong proficiency in fundamentals of software engineering, a willingness to pick new concepts as needed and an ability to drive technical projects in ambitious environments.
This is a hybrid position. Our team is in-office 3 days a week (Mon, Tue, Thu) in San Mateo, California.
What You'll Do
Design experiments and test ideas to optimize key internal AI benchmarks
Design and improve evaluation frameworks to accelerate the speed and direction of experimentation
Train, fine-tune, and optimize machine learning models. Perform rigorous evaluation and testing to ensure model accuracy, generalization, and performance.
Collaborate and contribute on the core product development to deliver higher platform capabilities
Setup up observability and monitoring systems to safety check model behaviour in critical settings
What We’re Looking For
Proven track record of shipping high-quality code in challenging projects
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field
Solid fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, system design
Attention to detail and a first-principals thinking towards real world deployment of intelligent systems.
Bonus
Proficiency in C++
Previous experience working with distributed computing systems in production