About Lumino
At Lumino, our mission is to unlock the power of AI for every human, and we can’t do this without having the best people in the world on the team.
AI is one of the next set of technologies that will unlock vast potential of human innovation, empowering us to solve problems that were thought to be unsolvable.
Lumino is a technology company that builds infrastructure which enables anyone to create AI models.
We are backed by prominent VCs such as Longhash Ventures, OP Crypto, Protocol Labs, Quaker Capital, Escape Velocity, and OrangeDAO.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status.
We’re searching for a number of experienced Software Engineers to join our team and help set the foundations of the company.
You will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining different systems from the ground up including the Lumino protocol, AI training, cryptoeconomics mechanisms, and our customer facing tools.
We are looking for strong all round engineers, however, if you do have relevant experience in one of the specialized areas mentioned below then we’d love to speak with you.
Day to day duties
Design, build, and maintain the Lumino protocol for training and fine-tuning AI models
Develop the Lumino node
Design and implement customer facing tools such as our CLI and web UI
Research and develop frameworks to train AI models
Build, test, debug, and deploy large-scale decentralized systems across thousands of nodes
Own projects end-to-end, from requirements, scoping, design, to implementation, in a highly collaborative and cross-functional environment.
Protocol Engineer Specialization
Develop and test blockchain protocols and smart contracts
Lead the process for internal and external smart contract audits
AI Infrastructure Engineer Specialization
Design, build, and maintain execution frameworks to train models on decentralized hardware
Develop scalable systems to handle models, datasets, and training procedures of all sizes
Build highly available, observable, performant, and cost-effective APIs for model training
Requirements
3+ years of software engineering experience
Experienced in designing, building, and scaling production systems
Strong communication and collaboration abilities
Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to learn quickly
Proven experience in writing high quality and well tested code
Experience working with a cloud-native tech stack (e.
g AWS/GCP)
Protocol Engineer (all above +)
2+ years of software engineering experience in building low-level protocols
Strong knowledge of blockchain, smart contracts, and consensus algorithms
Experience in Rust or Go
AI Infrastructure Engineer (all above +)
2+ years of software engineering experience in building machine learning pipelines in a production setting
Experience with distributed training techniques
Strong knowledge of model and data parallelism techniques
Nice to haves
Previous experience in a startup environment
Previously built a L1 or L2 blockchain
Exposure to decentralized model training like Moshpit SGD
Contributions to open source projects
Built a compiler
What we offer
Opportunity to design systems from the ground-up
Fast paced environment that allows you to learn and ship quickly
Competitive salary + share of equity and token pool
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Whatever equipment you need to get the job done
Github Co-Pilot and ChatGPT subscription
3 days week in-office (Bay Area) with the team, 2 days a week WFH