Black Forest Labs

Black Forest Labs, the creators of Latent Diffusion, Stable Diffusion, and FLUX, is seeking a Senior Partnerships Manager to architect the commercial layer of groundbreaking generative AI technologies. This role is not about traditional sales quotas but about innovating commercial strategies for rapidly evolving products. You will work closely with research and engineering teams to translate cutting-edge AI advancements into market opportunities, defining pricing, structuring complex deals, and identifying novel distribution channels. This is an opportunity to shape the future of AI-powered content creation for millions of users worldwide.

€135k - €190k

We are seeking a Research Engineer to join our team, focusing on the critical area of large-scale model training. This role bridges the gap between cutting-edge research and production systems, tackling complex challenges in training stability, efficiency, and performance across vast GPU fleets. You will work directly with researchers, contributing code, measurements, and system changes to enable the development of foundational generative models. The ideal candidate possesses deep technical ownership, can navigate ambiguous problems, and is committed to verifying results and owning outcomes.

€130k - €240k

Black Forest Labs is seeking a Forward Deployed Robotics Engineer to integrate their advanced generative models, including action/VLA models, into the robotics and physical-AI systems of their key customers. This role involves embedding with clients, implementing real-world integrations, and providing direct feedback to the product and research teams. The ideal candidate is passionate about bridging the gap between cutting-edge AI research and practical robotic applications, with a proven ability to deliver functional systems in research, open-source, or production environments. This is a high-ownership position focused on customer success and driving the adoption of foundational AI technologies.

€120k - €180k

Black Forest Labs is seeking a Developer Experience Engineer to own the end-to-end developer experience for their generative AI platform, powering tools used by millions. This role is crucial for making the platform the choice for developers and agents alike, focusing on speed and ease of use from idea to production. You will identify and resolve friction points across the API, SDK, dashboard, and onboarding flows, working closely with product engineering, API/platform teams, research, and DevRel to ensure a seamless experience.

€140k - €190k

Black Forest Labs is seeking a Staff / Senior Individual Contributor to pioneer the integration of vision-language models (VLMs) directly into their advanced generative AI systems, like FLUX. This role focuses on developing novel VLM approaches and architectures, rather than just applying existing ones. You will explore how vision and language representations inform each other, how multimodal understanding enhances generation quality, and how to deploy these capabilities at scale. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of pretraining or significantly advancing a VLM that has been deployed or publicly released.

€130k - €340k

We are seeking a Member of Technical Staff specializing in Post Training to own the end-to-end post-training pipeline for our multimodal generative models. This role is crucial for transforming foundation models into polished products, encompassing data strategy, reward modeling, preference optimization, distillation, and safety tuning across image, editing, and video modalities. You will be instrumental in driving significant improvements in model quality, developing the infrastructure that accelerates research team iteration, and advancing the state-of-the-art in aligning generative models with human intent. This is a Staff/Senior individual contributor position for someone with proven experience shipping post-training for a frontier model.

€130k - €340k

We are seeking a Member of Technical Staff focused on pretraining to join our research team. This role is central to developing the next generation of multimodal foundation models for image, video, and audio. You will have a significant impact on shaping training objectives, architectures, data strategies, and systems, with your research directly influencing products used by millions. This is a Staff/Senior individual contributor position for someone with proven experience leading frontier pretraining efforts.

€130k - €340k

We are seeking engineers to build and maintain the core infrastructure powering our mission to develop visual intelligence. This role involves maintaining and scaling compute clusters, building research platforms to accelerate innovation, and enabling large-scale, efficient resource orchestration for multi-week/month long training runs. If you are passionate about distributed systems at scale, infrastructure reliability, scalability, security, and continuous improvement, this team offers a unique opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking AI models.

€100k - €230k

Black Forest Labs is at the forefront of generative AI, known for foundational technologies like Latent Diffusion and Stable Diffusion. We are building the next generation of creative tools used by millions worldwide. This role is crucial for bridging the gap between cutting-edge research and production-ready systems, ensuring that our advanced models can be efficiently deployed and experienced by users. You will be instrumental in accelerating the pace at which research breakthroughs become usable APIs and demos, directly impacting inference speed, API performance under load, and the overall user experience of our models.

$180k - $300k

We are seeking a Member of Technical Staff specializing in Image/Video Generation to join our team. You will be instrumental in training large-scale diffusion models for image and video generation, pushing the boundaries of generative AI. This role involves exploring novel approaches, rigorously testing design choices, and understanding the trade-offs between speed and quality in production settings. You will contribute to shaping our research direction by conducting experiments, analyzing results, and communicating findings to the team. This is an opportunity to work on foundational technologies used by millions of creators worldwide and contribute to the advancement of generative models.

€130k - €340k