Careers

Join us in building the next
generation of AI computing

REWARDING WORK

Life at Lumai is full of opportunities for growth and innovation

At Lumai you will get to work on cutting-edge technology with a team of amazing individuals where bright minds are dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. We know that amazing people create amazing products.

Help us redefine how the world computes. Lumai is on a mission to unlock sustainable intelligence at global scale, and we are looking for people who want to be part of something genuinely new.

Why researchers and engineers choose to work here

Lumai is not iterating on what already exists. We are building a fundamentally different kind of compute, one that uses light rather than electricity to perform the matrix multiplications at the heart of AI inference. Spun out of the University of Oxford in 2021, we have a validated product, real customers, and a clear path to scale.

If you want to do work that matters, work on technology that has never existed before, and see the direct impact of what you build, this is the place.

Work at the frontier. Stay at the frontier.

Every day at Lumai is spent on technology that did not exist five years ago. Optical neural networks, free-space 3D optics, disaggregated LLM inference. You will not be maintaining legacy systems.

Small teams. Real Ownership.

Flat structure, direct access, fast decisions. Your work and ideas reach the people who matter, quickly. There is no layer of bureaucracy between you and impact.

Grow with a company that is growing fast.

We are early and scaling. The people who join now will help shape not just the technology, but how Lumai operates, hires, and leads as we grow.

Shape how local compute comes to life

Lumai is at an inflection point. Iris Nova is validated and in customer evaluation. Iris Aura is in development. The decisions being made now about architecture, systems, and scale will define the product for the next decade.

Experienced engineers and researchers at Lumai play a central role in those decisions. You will work directly with leadership, contribute to product direction, and see your ideas move quickly into execution.

High-impact, high-ownership work

Take on roles that directly influence system architecture, optical engine design, inference stack development, and customer deployment. The problems are hard, the stakes are real, and the outcomes are visible.

Direct access. Real influence.

No long approval chains. No design-by-committee. Lumai is a flat environment where the best technical thinking shapes what we build and how we build it.

Work that advances the field

Lumai has won the Falling Walls Award for Science Breakthrough of the Year. Our CTO is recognized in the Photonics 100. The work here is publishable, patentable, and genuinely advancing the state of the art.
"This is a place for people who want their fingerprints on something important."

A culture built around great science and honest collaboration

Lumai is small enough that every person shapes the culture, and intentional enough that we think carefully about what kind of place we want to build.

We are Oxford-rooted and globally minded. We care about the quality of the work, the integrity of our science, and the wellbeing of the people doing it. We are building something that we believe will matter for decades, and we want to build it well.

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