Luma is looking for a Technical Artist to join our Applied team. Luma’s Applied team takes our underlying foundation models and makes them production ready, including fine-tuning, implementing controllability & editing features and testing new research opportunities for data enhancement. We’re looking for an extremely talented technical artist to work identify improvements to our models and work with data and research teams to implement. Technical Artists will be responsible for developing workflow pipelines, and fine-tuning & QA’ing our production models, ensuring Luma’s products are the best on earth.Successful candidates here will merge an exceptional detail orientation, drive for model improvement and eye for aesthetics. Candidates may have worked with fine-tuning or AI art creation as a hobby. They’ve spent large amounts of time working with video and/or image models, and can clearly identify and come up with ideas to solve problems with different models. They are also able to differentiate good and bad aesthetics, and precisely articulate those choices using standard artistic language.There is some engineering required - strong candidates will have a background as an engineer and be comfortable with python.Most importantly they are exceptionally motivated and passionate to build amazing models, and are just looking for an opportunity to work on it in a live use case, with a blue-sky mandate and an opportunity to fulfill creativity.
Responsibilities
Take ownership of identifying improvements for our models and implementing fine-tuning solutions to solve them
Work with Data and Design team to ensure final models have exceptionally high aesthetic quality matching and exceeding Luma’s product vision
Work with research team to evaluate and give feedback on early versions of models, providing an early-eye for positive or negative trends
Build comfyui-style pipelines to productionize our models
Background
Demonstrated excitement about Visual GenAI, either as a creator, fine-tuner, hobbyist, researcher or engineer
Hobbyist or professional experience as an artist leading to deep understanding of aesthetics
Experience with open source tools such as ComfyUI, A1111, Kohya, etc is a plus
