Forward Deployed Engineer

Stability AI; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Stability AI is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to help creative teams and enterprises adopt generative AI across image, video, 3D, vector graphics, and design.

You will work at the intersection of engineering, applied AI, product, and customer delivery, collaborating with customers to translate workflows into production-ready solutions.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineering skills in AI-enabled apps.
• Experience with Python and PyTorch.
• Background in generative AI, CV, or graphics.
• Strong API design, cloud infra, data pipelines.
• Ability to turn ambiguous customer problems into technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to understand workflows and goals.
• Identify opportunities to apply generative AI across media types.
• Build prototypes, integrations, and production-ready solutions.
• Adapt AI models to customer datasets, branding, and production needs.
• Integrate AI into creative tools and content pipelines.
• Translate customer needs into technical requirements and product direction.
• Evaluate solutions for quality, controllability, and reliability.
• Diagnose issues across models, data pipelines, and integrations.
• Document approaches and propose reusable deployment patterns.
• Serve as a trusted technical partner through discovery to deployment.

Skills

Software engineering

Python

PyTorch

Generative AI

Computer Vision

APIs

Cloud experience

Communication

Education

Bachelor's in CS or related

Job description

About The Role

We are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to help creative teams and enterprises adopt generative AI across image, video, 3D, vector graphics, and design.

About The Role

We are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to help creative teams and enterprises adopt generative AI across image, video, 3D, vector graphics, and design.

This role sits at the intersection of engineering, applied AI, product, and customer delivery. You will work directly with customers to understand complex workflows, identify high-value opportunities, and build solutions that connect emerging AI capabilities with real production environments.

The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering skills with experience in generative AI and visual computing. You should be comfortable moving from an ambiguous customer problem to a working prototype and, ultimately, a reliable production solution.

Responsibilities

• Partner with creative, technical, and business stakeholders to understand their workflows, systems, and goals
• Identify opportunities to apply generative AI across image, video, 3D, vector graphics, and design
• Build prototypes, integrations, and production-ready solutions that deliver measurable customer value
• Adapt generative and multimodal models to customer-specific use cases, datasets, brand requirements, and production environments
• Integrate AI capabilities into existing creative tools, content pipelines, and enterprise systems
• Work with research, product, engineering, and design teams to translate customer needs into technical requirements and product direction
• Evaluate solutions based on quality, controllability, consistency, reliability, and production usefulness
• Diagnose technical issues across models, APIs, data pipelines, infrastructure, and customer integrations
• Document successful approaches and develop reusable implementation patterns for future deployments
• Serve as a trusted technical partner throughout discovery, prototyping, implementation, and deployment

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering experience building and deploying machine learning or AI-powered applications
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD, or equivalent practical experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, or a related field
• Experience with generative AI, multimodal systems, computer vision, graphics, or creative technology
• Strong programming skills in Python and experience with frameworks such as PyTorch
• Experience turning prototypes and experiments into reliable production systems
• Familiarity with APIs, cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, model serving, and enterprise integrations
• Ability to translate ambiguous customer problems into clearly scoped technical solutions
• Strong communication skills and experience working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to balance speed, technical quality, customer value, and scalability
• Experience in several of the following areas:
• Generative image or video models
• 3D generation, reconstruction, or neural rendering
• Vector graphics, layout, typography, or design systems
• Multimodal representation learning
• Creative software and production pipelines
• Model customization, fine-tuning, or inference optimization

Highly Desirable

• Experience in forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, applied AI, machine learning engineering, or technical consulting
• Experience delivering complex technical implementations for enterprise customers
• Experience in professional creative domains such as VFX, games, animation, advertising, e-commerce, graphic design, or 3D production
• Experience integrating AI models into creative tools or content-production pipelines
• Experience with controllable generation, layered editing, multi-view consistency, relightable assets, structured design outputs, or brand-constrained generation
• Familiarity with model evaluation, GPU infrastructure, inference optimization, and production monitoring
• Willingness to travel periodically for customer workshops and strategic engagements

Equal Employment Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, or other legally protected statuses.