Member of Technical Staff - VLM
Black Forest Labs · Freiburg (Germany)
CHECKED 12H AGO
Frontier labonsiteSenior / Staff$146k–$381k
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead development and training of state-of-the-art VLMs inside the FLUX stack.
- Design VLM fine-tuning for captioning, editing, and prompt enhancement.
- Research VLM and diffusion integrations to improve generation quality.
What they offer
- Equity
- Reasonable travel costs covered for in-person collaboration
Ideal candidate
Frontier-minded researcher-engineer who has shipped or released a pretrained VLM and lives at the research-production boundary. You care that multimodal systems ship, generalize, and expand creativity, not just publish.
Requirements
- Pretrained or significantly advanced a VLM deployed in production or released publicly
- Strong publication record or production track record on multimodal architectures
- Deep understanding of vision-language interaction, alignment and failure modes
- Experience with distributed training at multi-node scale
- Comfortable at research-production boundary focused on shipping and generalization
- remote policy
- Hybrid 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