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Applied AI Engineer

Luminai

Company websiteluminai.com (Luminai, opens in new tab)

Base salary $170K  to $250K

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in California +1 more

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  • LocationCalifornia +1 more
  • WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
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  • California
  • New York, NY

About this job

About Luminai

Healthcare operations have always depended on people to bridge the gaps that technology couldn't. It relies on complex manual work to carry out critical internal processes, yet most health systems don’t have enough resources to properly automate these tasks, leaving them stuck in outdated, labor-intensive SOPs.

Luminai structures the chaos, automates the manual handoffs, and deploys end-to-end workflows across every system, providing the integrated intelligence layer to improve processes over time. By delegating to autonomous AI systems those mission-critical workflows that previously expended valuable human time, Luminai allows doctors and administrators to do what they do best: Focus on Patients.

We've raised $60M in funding, including our recent Series B led by Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia India), with participation from healthcare-focused Define Ventures and continued support from General Catalyst and Y Combinator. We're backed by some of the best investors in Silicon Valley, including Kevin Weil (Chief Product Officer at OpenAI), Arash Ferdowsi (co-founder of Dropbox), Katie Stanton (former VP Global Media, Twitter), and CEOs of companies such as Flexport, Notion, Front, Ramp, and Twitch.

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

About the role

As a 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.

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

  • Set up observability and monitoring systems to safety check model behavior 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-principles thinking towards real world deployment of intelligent systems.

  • Experience shipping ML models to production

Bonus

  • Previous experience working with distributed computing systems in production

Source: Luminai on Ashby · View original posting (opens in new tab)

Pay in context

This role's base floor ($170,000) is above 31% of the 1,485 Data & ML roles in California listed on this site; 26 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $190,000; the middle half runs from $160,000 to $229,900.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 6, 2026.

This range next to 6 other live Luminai roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live Luminai roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Applied AI Engineer (this listing)$170K - $250K
Senior Software Engineer, Product$170K - $220K
Senior Product Manager, Applied AI$170K - $250K
Strategy Lead$170K - $220K
Senior Software Engineer, Platform$170K - $220K
Senior Product Manager, Platform$170K - $250K
Marketing Lead$160K - $225K

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Luminai roles · How to read the bar

Observed changes

  1. Began meeting the published-salary criteria
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Employer-stated posting date
2026-01-09
Where this pay comes from

Location as the employer wrote it: SF Bay Area • New York

USD 170,000 – 250,000 · 1 YEAR · Salary

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