IT Engineer

Black Forest Labs; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Black Forest Labs is seeking an IT/Corporate Engineer to own and automate our endpoint lifecycle across a growing macOS fleet. You will migrate MDM, manage identity and access across SaaS tools, and build automation to remove manual work.

The role includes supporting Freiburg and SF offices and shaping infrastructure as code with secure practices. You will join a distributed team, with some in-person collaboration and remote work, while driving security-conscious, scalable IT operations across

Qualifications

• Hands-on IT / corporate engineering experience in a fast-growing startup.
• Experience managing a macOS fleet with MDM and zero-touch provisioning.
• Identity and access administration across SaaS apps with SSO/SAML and SCIM.

Responsibilities

• Own the full endpoint lifecycle for the fleet (purchasing, issuance, zero-touch setup, management, retrieval).
• Complete MDM migration across the endpoint fleet.
• Own identity and access across SaaS vendor stack with automated lifecycle (SSO, SCIM).
• Build automation and internal tooling to reduce routine manual work.
• Define IT infrastructure as code with configuration and provisioning in version control.
• Maintain security controls for workforce systems and provide fast secure access paths.
• Provide workplace IT support in Freiburg and remote support for SF office.
• Manage video conferencing equipment across offices.
• Develop tooling and reporting to show endpoint metrics and operational health.

Skills

macOS fleet management

MDM (Iru, Jamf)

IdP / SSO / SCIM

infrastructure as code

scripting (Python, shell)

security mindset

Tools

Terraform

Job description

About Black Forest Labs

We're the team behind Latent Diffusion, Stable Diffusion, and FLUX—foundational technologies that changed how the world creates images and video. 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.

Headquartered in Freiburg, Germany with a growing presence in San Francisco, we’re scaling fast while staying true to what makes us different: research excellence, open science, and building technology that expands human creativity.

Why This Role

This is a build role, not a maintenance one. You'll take a partially built environment that still runs largely on manual ClickOps and turn it into automated, self-service, code-defined infrastructure for workforce enablement.

What You'll Work On

• Own the full endpoint lifecycle for our (currently all-macOS) fleet: purchasing, issuance, zero-touch setup, management, and retrieval.
• Complete our MDM migration across the endpoint fleet.
• Own identity and access across our SaaS vendor stack, and replace manual access administration with an automated joiner-mover-leaver lifecycle (SSO, SCIM, provisioning/de-provisioning).
• Build automation and internal tooling to remove routine human work from the path to staff productivity.
• Define IT infrastructure as code, with configuration, provisioning, and access managed in version control.
• Implement and maintain identity, access, and endpoint security controls for workforce systems, ensuring the fastest path is the secure path.
• Provide workplace technical support in Freiburg and remote support for our San Francisco office.
• Manage video conferencing equipment across offices.
• Develop the tooling and reporting that turn endpoint metrics, tool usage, and support data into a clear picture of our operational health.

What We're Looking For

• Hands-on IT / corporate engineering experience in a fast-growing startup, and comfortable being the primary day-to-day IT contact.
• macOS fleet management, MDM (Iru, Jamf, or similar), Apple Business Manager / ADE, and zero-touch provisioning experience.
• Identity and access administration with an IdP, including SSO/SAML and SCIM-based lifecycle automation across SaaS applications.
• Scripting and automation (e.g. Python, shell) and hands-on infrastructure-as-code experience (e.g. Terraform).
• A security mindset for workforce systems: access, endpoints, and the tradeoffs between control and usability.

While not required, it's an added plus if you also have:

• Experience running an MDM migration or standardizing an existing fleet.

How We Work Together

We're a distributed team with real offices that people actually use. Depending on your role, you'll either join us in Freiburg or SF at least 2 days a week (or one full week every other week), or work
remotely with a monthly in-person week to stay connected. We'll cover reasonable travel costs to make this possible. We think in-person time matters, and we've structured things to make it accessible to all. We'll discuss what this will look like for the role during ourinterview process.

Everything we do is grounded in four values:

• Obsessed.We are a frontier research lab. The science has to be right, the understanding deep, the product beautiful.
• Low Ego.The work speaks. The best idea wins, no matter who said it. Credit is shared. Nobody is above any task.
• Bold.We take the ambitious bet. We ship, we do not wait for conditions to be perfect.
• Kind.People over politics. We treat each other with genuine warmth. Agency without empathy creates chaos.

If this sounds like work you’d enjoy, we’d love to hear from you.

Base Annual Salary:

EU€95,000 - €110,000 + Equity