R&D Engineer

Cambridge, England, UK on site Until 8/22/2026 First posted March 18, 2026 Last posted March 18, 2026
Job description

This is a fantastic opportunity to join Luminance, the pioneer of Legal-Grade™ AI for enterprise. Backed by internationally renowned VCs and named in both the Forbes AI 50 list of ‘Most Promising Private AI Companies in the World’ and Inc. 5000’s ‘Fastest Growing Companies in America’, Luminance is disrupting the legal profession around the globe.

Luminance’s team of R&D Engineers are responsible for designing and developing Luminance's AI platform, providing Luminance’s core AI technology to application within our software architecture.

This role is open to both graduates with a willingness to learn the desired skills, as well as more senior candidates with proven, prior experience in them.

If you are excited about this role but your skill or experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. At Luminance we are dedicated to building and promoting an inclusive workplace where everyone can flourish. You might just be who we’re looking for, for this role or another – enthusiasm is by far the most important requirement for any applicant to Luminance!

Desired Skills

  • Experience in the development of large-scale python codebases
  • Familiarity with the python ecosystem: both the standard library and popular open source libraries such as Flask, Requests, NumPy or PyTorch
  • Understanding of software development best practices and architecture, particularly of web-hosted platforms composed of applications with underlying services
  • Ability to provide, or desire to develop, leadership: either of technical direction or of teams of people
  • Desire to learn new things and capability to do so quickly
  • Drive and enthusiasm to see projects through to completion

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree with a First or 2:1, preferably in a technical subject
About this role

Summary

Design and develop AI platform; work on large-scale python projects and web services.

Job title

R&D Engineer

Experience level

entry level

Industry

legal technology

Location requirements

Cambridge, UK; remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

pythonflaskrequestsnumpypytorch

Preferred skills

leadershiplearning capability

Specializations

pythonweb developmentAIsoftware architecture
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Cambridge, UK

On-site City