Member of Technical Staff - Model Serving / API Backend Engineer
Black Forest Labs · San Francisco (United States)
CHECKED 11H AGO
Frontier labonsite$180k–$300k
At a glance
Highlights
- Turn frontier research checkpoints into production-ready inference services.
- Build high-performance APIs serving millions of requests for generative models.
- Ship live demos in days that showcase new image and video capabilities.
Ideal candidate
A backend-minded builder who thrives in fast research environments and loves turning prototypes into reliable, high-performance production systems. You take end-to-end ownership and care about speed, reliability, and creative impact.
Requirements
- Building and operating ML inference services in production
- Designing scalable API architectures with async processing
- Optimizing GPU workloads including batching, quantization and compilation
- Managing distributed systems and task queues under variable load
- Implementing monitoring and observability for production ML systems
- Debugging performance bottlenecks across model, infrastructure and network
- remote policy
- Hybrid with 2 days/week in Freiburg or SF, or remote with monthly in-person week
Lab profile
About Black Forest Labs
Team behind Stable Diffusion and FLUX building frontier image and video generation models.
What they build
- FLUX image generation models
- FLUX video generation models
Known for
- Pioneers of Latent Diffusion and Stable Diffusion
- State-of-the-art image and video generation
- Models used by millions of creators and businesses
Key facts
- Headquartered in Freiburg, Germany
- Presence in San Francisco