On-site (with flexibility for remote work and in-person meetings)
Large-scale pretraining experiments
Multimodal foundation models
Novel architecture development
Blackforestlabs is seeking a Member of Technical Staff for their Pretraining team in Freiburg, Germany. The ideal candidate will have experience leading large-scale pretraining efforts for multimodal foundation models and will contribute to advancing the company's innovative technologies
Job Summary
You'll shape training objectives, architectures, data strategies, and systems behind our joint image, video, and audio foundation models, with a direct line from your research to products used by millions.
This is a Staff / Senior IC role. We're looking for someone who has already led pretraining at the frontier and wants to do it again.
We're building the foundation models that power the next wave of visual intelligence — and pretraining is where that work begins.
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Blackforestlabs is seeking a Member of Technical Staff for their Pretraining team in Freiburg, Germany. The ideal candidate will have experience leading large-scale pretraining efforts for multimodal foundation models and will contribute to advancing the company's innovative technologies.
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
Large-scale pretraining experiments
Multimodal foundation models
Novel architecture development
Full stack contribution
Python and PyTorch proficiency
Visual generative models familiarity
Nice-to-have
Research excellence
Open science commitment
Expanding human creativity
Low ego and collaboration
Bold and ambitious bets
Key Requirements
Led pretraining for a foundation model
Architectural calls that move the model
Deep large-scale distributed training experience
Strong intuition for architecture and objective design