A team is more than the sum of its individuals.
Here’s what we bring to the table.
The Capacity to Innovate
The technology available to communicate respectfully, intelligently, and non-intrusively isn’t available in off-the-shelf AI, and no academic degree teaches how to build it.
Diverse Backgrounds
We’ve assembled a team from institutions like Caltech, Harvard University, BYU, Cambridge University, and the University of Toronto, and concentrations spanning computer science, physics, cybernetics, applied mathematics, and economics.
Harness the Differences
The Lumin.ai magic comes from our ability to leverage our diverse and complementary perspectives. We cultivate hybrid vigor, leave rank and force of personality at the door, and know when to break from conventional wisdom.
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Startup
Lumin.ai’s tightly integrated team can get from decision to design and implementation often faster than a larger company can make a decision. Working with our team means agility, influence, and undivided attention.
A note from
Tom Ngo | Founder & CEO
I ache to understand this universe that I’ve landed in. How did I wind up here, and what lies ahead? One element of my seeking has been a passion quest to comprehend aliveness by asking many different forms of this question: “How do living things do what they do?”
I’ve loved pushing boundaries between artificial and living systems, working with great collaborators. How does a protein become a little molecular machine? How do toddlers learn to walk and jump? How do party goers “tune out” extraneous voices? How can the mechanisms of evolution solve complex search problems? How can machine constraints enhance human creativity? At the start of my career, I enjoyed developing enough depth in each field to publish in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
In personal life, I’ve been deeply influenced by experiences such as being taught by my own children to unicycle. How did my psyche leap from perceiving utter impossibility, to commuting on one wheel nearly every day? What mental representations snowballed as I extended twelve inches of progress to twelve miles?
At Lumin.ai, we’ve spent four years quietly pushing similar frontiers related human communication and problem solving. We are disturbed by the crisis of attention that distracts people from those who matter, and we are making conversational AI help stem the tide. If this is done right, the interests of vendors and consumers can be aligned: everyone wants to respect personal time and space—and, as result, match willing seller with willing buyer.
As we engage in this cause, I’m grateful for so many outside of Lumin.ai who have helped make us successful: customers for whom this work is mission critical, partners who see a transformative opportunity and want to take it on together, and investors—especially at Idealab, where I served as Chief Product Officer, and with whom a great collaboration continues.
Thank you.
A note from
Brian Kernohan | Chief Revenue Officer
As a growth hacker, I’ve had the privilege of meeting with over a hundred B2B SaaS leaders who are all building better mousetraps and seeking the best growth recipes for their target audiences. The best ones socialize their ideas without fear, inhibition or guile. They value customer feedback over ego, and incorporate it into product strategy and development. We at Lumin.ai team live these values.
But what additional characteristics make us successful and someone you want to partner with? Empathy and self-awareness. That comes from knowing that our personal journeys mold us into who we are, and guide us to where we can derive personal and professional satisfaction. Spending time with inner city youth teaching the Junior Achievement curriculum and managing the Joshua Kernohan Memorial Fund are essential parts of my personal journey. At Lumin.ai, we embrace this personal commitment to service and act to make a positive difference to the lives of others personally and professionally.
Our team is blessed with the opportunity to work with smart customers and partners with complementary skills, while at the same time being 100% invested in making each other great. As consumers we all have raised our voices into our phones demanding “REPRESENTATIVE” or have just abandoned a bot discussion because it was a fruitless exercise. We KNOW that there is a better way for technology to support us in meaningful ways. The opportunity before us is to leverage our combined skills and experiences with the desire to bring our technologies to market the right way.
Help us light the way to responsible AI.
We aren’t actively recruiting; but for the right person, we can make things happen.
Learn about what we expect from a Senior Software Engineer.