Tech Lead Manager at Luma

Location: Colorado City, Arizona
Type: Full-time
Level: Lead
Posted: Jul 7, 2026

Description

Luma is seeking a Tech Lead Manager to lead their inference platform team. This hands-on leadership role involves designing, building, and debugging the serving stack, owning the technical direction, and fostering team development. The manager will focus on maximizing efficiency, reliability, and unit economics of production inference while enabling rapid research integration.

Required Skills

distributed systems
ML infrastructure
model-serving
inference platforms
LLM and foundation-model serving engines
Python
PyTorch
Kubernetes

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 8+ years of engineering experience in large-scale distributed systems or ML infrastructure
several years building and operating model-serving or inference platforms in production
Experience running inference platforms at scale
Technical leadership experience, including managing or leading engineers through periods of rapid growth
Preferred Qualifications: Experience serving diffusion, video, or other multimodal generative models (not just text), and with FFmpeg/multimedia processing
Experience with modern networking stacks — RDMA (RoCE, InfiniBand), NVLink — including KV-cache transfer and multi-node serving topologies
Experience across heterogeneous accelerator platforms (NVIDIA, AMD, TPU, Trainium) and the porting/validation work that comes with them
Contributions to open-source serving infrastructure (vLLM, SGLang, Ray, Kubernetes ecosystem)
Systems-language depth (Rust, C++, CUDA/HIP) for kernel- and runtime-level optimization