# Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI

**Company:** [Luminai](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/luminai)
**Location:** San Mateo, CA, US / Remote (US)
**Work mode:** Hybrid
**Seniority:** Mid
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Salary:** USD 170K–250K/yr
**Category:** Software
**Listed:** 2026-03-24

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## Job description

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.

**_Our team is in-office 4 days a week (Monday - Friday, Wednesday optional WFH) in either San Fransisco, California or New York, New York._**

### 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

## Other open roles at Luminai

- [Forward Deployed Engineer - Team Lead](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/luminai/forward-deployed-engineer-team-lead-106939) — New York, NY, US / San Francisco, CA, US
- [Senior Support Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/luminai/senior-support-engineer-106810) — SF Bay Area / New York
- [Senior Software Engineer, Platform](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/luminai/senior-software-engineer-platform-90173) — San Mateo, CA, US / Remote (US)
- [Staff Software Engineer, Platform](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/luminai/staff-software-engineer-platform-90178) — San Mateo, CA, US / Remote (US)
- [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/luminai/forward-deployed-engineer-90182) — San Mateo

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