Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer

Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer

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Black Forest Labs is a cutting‑edge startup pioneering generative image and video models. Our team, which invented Stable Diffusion and FLUX, is looking for a Forward Deployed MLE to bring our core offerings to critical customers.

The Role

• Help customers set up FLUX models in their services and ensure optimal latency and output quality for on‑premise and BFL‑hosted integrations.
• Design and implement deep product integrations, model hosting, finetuning, deployment and inference optimization.
• Customize foundation models for visual media for customer‑specific use cases.
• Meet with customers to identify gaps and pain points, assess their needs, and help them decide between BFL‑hosted and on‑premise deployments.
• Collaborate with customers to identify relevant use cases and find innovative solutions.
• Identify expansion potentials for BFL’s technologies into new industry sectors worldwide.

Ideal experiences

• Direct customer interaction, iterating solutions and providing tailored support for generative AI models.
• Hands‑on finetuning, optimizing and serving deep learning models.
• Proven track record in machine learning engineering.
• Proficiency in Python and API integrations to implement basic functionality and help customers prototyping/demo building.
• Experience explaining sophisticated technical concepts to technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to adapt messaging to different audiences.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of diffusion models and finetuning/distillation techniques.
• Experience with FLUX ecosystem tooling such as ComfyUI and trainer frameworks.
• Inference optimizations for transformer‑based models.
• Architecting solutions in complex enterprise environments.
• Contributions to open‑source diffusion model projects.
• Experience with cloud platforms and state‑of‑the‑art deployment solutions.

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level

Employment type: Full‑time

Job function: Engineering and Information Technology

Industries: Software Development