Software Engineer - Product

Luma AI

$170K — $290K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience building and shipping software, including internships and personal projects
  • Strong proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, TypeScript, Go, Java)
  • 2+ years of professional software engineering experience or evidence of exceptional ability
  • Demonstrated impactful ownership of a software system or substantial personal project

Responsibilities

  • Use AI coding agents to ship features quickly
  • Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to create software
  • Rapidly learn across multiple domains including frontend and backend
  • Own meaningful product outcomes from start to finish
  • Ship quickly, gather feedback, and iterate on products
  • Develop judgment on architecture, security, and UX through hands-on experience

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work closely with experienced technical leaders
  • Environment prioritizing rapid learning and ownership
  • Involvement in a company focused on AI-driven development
  • Hands-on experience with large-scale product deployment
  • Accelerated growth in an AI-native engineering context
Full Job Description
Where You Come In

We're looking for engineers early in their arc who are already shipping at a high level. AI has lowered the cost of building. That creates an opportunity for engineers with high agency and fast learning speed to take on meaningful ownership much earlier than before.

You may already have senior-level impact. What you likely haven't accumulated yet are years of production scars-large-scale failures, long-lived architectural consequences, and irreversible bets.

That's what you'll gain here.

You'll work on real products, ship to real users, and operate in close proximity to experienced technical leaders. You'll be expected to move fast, take ownership, and learn by doing.

This is not a role where you wait for tickets. It's a role where you build.

What You'll Do

  • Use AI coding agents to ship features and products at a pace that would have been impossible a few years ago
  • Work directly with product, design, and engineering teams to turn ideas into working software
  • Learn rapidly across multiple domains-frontend, backend, systems, product, design
  • Own meaningful product outcomes end-to-end
  • Ship fast, get feedback, iterate, and improve
  • Build your judgment about architecture, security, UX, and trade-offs by doing


Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience building and shipping software (internships and substantial personal projects qualify)
  • Strong proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language (e.g., Python, TypeScript, Go, Java)
  • 2+ years of professional software engineering experience, or can provide evidence of exceptional ability demonstrated through at least one standout accomplishment, such as:
    • Owning and delivering a non-trivial software system or feature
    • A substantial personal project with real users or adoption
    • Success in a competitive programming contest, hackathon, or technical competition
    • A significant open-source contribution or widely used library


What We Look For

  • A demonstrated pattern of building software and shipping real work
  • Evidence of learning new tools, patterns, or domains by building real things
  • Experience using AI coding tools to build or ship non-trivial functionality
  • Strong programming fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, systems thinking)
  • Examples of ownership-identifying problems, taking initiative, and seeing work through


This role is defined by learning speed and output, not years of experience.

Why This Role Exists

Most early-career engineering roles optimize for gradual progression. This one compresses the curve.

AI has lowered the cost of building. That creates space for high-agency engineers to take on meaningful ownership much earlier than before.

The work you do here will shape:

  • How quickly research becomes product
  • How fast we can iterate
  • How the next generation of engineers grows inside an AI-native company


If you want to accelerate your growth by shipping real systems at real scale, we should talk.

Compensation

The base pay range for this role is $170,000 - $290,000 per year.

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