Black Forest Labs
Member of Technical Staff - Model Serving / API Backend Engineer
San Francisco (USA) · Staff+
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About the role
- We're creating the generative models that power how people make images and video-tools used by millions of creators, developers, and businesses worldwide.
- Our FLUX models are among the most advanced in the world, and we're just getting started.
- Why This Role Our research team moves fast.
Responsibilities
- Building and operating ML inference services in production
- Kind. People over politics. We treat each other with genuine warmth. Agency without empathy creates chaos.
Requirements
- Experience scaling APIs or ML systems under load
- Comfort working in fast-moving, research-adjacent environments
- You are comfortable navigating ambiguity, making tradeoffs, and improving systems under real-world constraints.
Skills
- About Black Forest Labs
- Headquartered in Freiburg, Germany with a growing presence in
- San Francisco, we're scaling fast while staying true to what makes us different:
- Why This Role
- Models improve weekly.
- New capabilities emerge constantly.
- What slows us down is not model quality-it's productionization.
- Research checkpoints sit longer before becoming usable APIs
- Inference is slower than it needs to be
Compensation
- Base Annual Salary: $180,000–$300,000 USD
Company info
- Once hired, researchers ship faster, demos launch faster, and customers experience models at their best.
- What We're Looking For You've built and operated systems at meaningful scale.
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