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Member of Technical Staff - VLM

Black Forest Labs · Freiburg (Germany)

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Frontier labonsiteSenior / Staff$146k–$381k
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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
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