Product Engineer
Black Forest Labs3 months ago
Freiburg im Breisgau, GermanySenior
Responsibilities
- Ship high-quality web applications end to end.
- Turn research capabilities into products from initial prototypes through production.
- Own frontend architecture and establish engineering practices for the broader team.
- Set the visual quality bar through shared components, interaction details, and product polish.
- Design interactions for long-running generations, iterative editing, large media payloads, and real-time inference.
- Drive performance for high-volume media processing and user-perceived latency.
- Collaborate with research, infrastructure, growth, and design teams to determine what to build.
- Build and maintain the Playground, Dashboard, model launch demos, reference implementations, and starter applications.
- Decompose product work for coding agents and critically review their generated code.
- Follow features into the API layer, database, and migrations when needed.
Requirements
- A track record of shipping real products used and depended on by customers.
- Fluency using coding agents on complex existing codebases and the judgment to review generated code for correctness, security, and maintainability.
- Strong visual craft and comfort working from Figma designs or creating interfaces from scratch.
- Strong product sense and the ability to make and explain deliberate UX and technical tradeoffs.
- Excellent debugging instincts across frontend and backend systems.
- Comfort working with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and the pace of an early-stage research lab.
- React, TypeScript, and Next.js experience is preferred.
- Experience building developer tools or creative applications is preferred.
- Experience building interfaces on generative models and working knowledge of AI/ML concepts are preferred.
- Instrumentation, analytics, A/B testing, and activation-funnel experience is preferred.
- Open-source contributions are preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, equity, and benefits programs.
- Hybrid working from the Freiburg, Germany headquarters with regular global off-sites.
- Depending on the role, work from Freiburg or San Francisco at least two days per week, one full week every other week, or remotely with a monthly in-person week.
- Reasonable travel costs are covered for required in-person time.
- Interview travel to Freiburg is covered.
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About Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs builds generative image and video models for creators, developers, and enterprises, including the FLUX series and work behind Latent Diffusion/Stable Diffusion. It distributes models and tooling via open releases, APIs, and enterprise licensing for image generation and editing workflows. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Freiburg, Germany, the privately held company focuses on visual AI research with a presence in San Francisco.