Member Of Technical Staff - Pretraining

Black Forest Labs

Freiburg, Germany
On-site
Led pretraining for foundation model
Deep experience with distributed training
Proficiency in python and pytorch
This role sits at the center of research efforts to shape training objectives and architectures for joint image, video, and audio foundation models

Job Summary

  • This role sits at the center of research efforts to shape training objectives and architectures for joint image, video, and audio foundation models.
  • Candidates must have led or co-owned pretraining for a foundation model that shipped to production or a major release.
  • The team operates with a distributed structure requiring in-person presence at least two days a week or one full week every other week.

Matching Summary

This role sits at the center of research efforts to shape training objectives and architectures for joint image, video, and audio foundation models.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Led pretraining for foundation model
  • Deep experience with distributed training
  • Proficiency in Python and PyTorch
  • Visual generative models expertise
  • Architecture and objective design intuition

Nice-to-have

  • Top-venue publications record
  • Low ego collaborative culture
  • Bold ambitious betting mindset
  • Open science values

Key Requirements

  • Production experience shipping foundation models
  • Experience debugging loss spikes and NaNs at scale
  • Track record of top-venue publications or production wins

Work Rights

Not specified

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