Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer

Black Forest Labs

San Francisco, California, United States
Base annual salary: $180,000–$300,000 usd; bonus/e...
On-site
Direct experience with generative ai deployment
Hands-on expertise in diffusion model optimization
Proven track record shipping ml models to production
This role sits at the intersection of cutting-edge research and production reality, ensuring FLUX models perform optimally across diverse customer environments

Job Summary

  • This role sits at the intersection of cutting-edge research and production reality, ensuring FLUX models perform optimally across diverse customer environments.
  • You will architect deep product integrations that go beyond standard APIs, helping customers solve unique problems with custom model tuning and inference optimization.
  • The company values a distributed team culture grounded in four core principles: being obsessed with science, maintaining low ego, taking bold bets, and treating people with kindness.

Matching Summary

This role sits at the intersection of cutting-edge research and production reality, ensuring FLUX models perform optimally across diverse customer environments.

Salary

Base Annual Salary: $180,000–$300,000 USD; Bonus/Equity: Not specified; Benefits: Reasonable travel costs covered for in-person meetings

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Direct experience with generative AI deployment
  • Hands-on expertise in diffusion model optimization
  • Proven track record shipping ML models to production
  • Strong Python skills and API design intuition

Nice-to-have

  • Deep knowledge of flow matching and distillation techniques
  • Intimate familiarity with FLUX ecosystem and ComfyUI
  • Battle-tested experience optimizing transformer inference
  • Experience contributing to open-source diffusion projects

Key Requirements

  • Experience debugging and serving deep learning models at scale
  • Ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks in complex enterprise systems
  • Understanding of on-premise GPU clusters and cloud infrastructure

Work Rights

Not specified

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