Member of Technical Staff - VLM
Black Forest Labs7 months ago
Freiburg im Breisgau, GermanySenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Lead development and training of state-of-the-art multimodal vision-language models within the FLUX stack.
- Design fine-tuning strategies for VLMs tailored to specialized creative use cases.
- Research integrations between VLM/LLM capabilities and diffusion and flow pipelines.
- Evaluate emerging multimodal architectures and translate research into practical improvements.
Requirements
- Experience in pretraining or significantly advancing a VLM deployed in a production system.
- Strong publication record or production track record in multimodal architectures.
- Deep understanding of vision and language representation interactions.
- Experience with distributed training at multi-node scale.
- Comfortable at the research/production boundary, focusing on practical applications.
- Experience with diffusion or flow-based generative models is a strong plus.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements with options for remote work and in-person collaboration.
- Coverage of reasonable travel costs for in-person meetings.
Categories
Data Science
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.