Staff / Senior IC Post-Training Engineer

Black Forest Labs

Remote regions

Global

Salary range

$140,400–$367,200/yr

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About Black Forest Labs:

  • We are the team behind Latent Diffusion, Stable Diffusion, and FLUX.
  • Our models power tools used by millions of creators, developers, and businesses worldwide.
  • We are headquartered in Freiburg, Germany with a growing presence in San Francisco.

What You'll Work On:

  • Own the full post-training pipeline end to end from data curation through deployment.
  • Advance techniques across the stack: SFT, RLHF, RLAIF, DPO, preference learning, and reward modeling.
  • Work across modalities: text-to-image, image editing, multi-reference, and video post-training.

What We're Looking For:

  • You have owned post-training for a frontier generative model through release.
  • Deep experience across the post-training stack: reward modeling, preference learning, RLHF/RLAIF, and personalization.
  • Strong PyTorch fluency and bias toward shipping measurable model-quality improvements.

How We Work Together:

  • We are a distributed team with offices in Freiburg and SF.
  • You'll work in-person at least 2 days a week or remotely with a monthly in-person week.
  • Our values are obsession, low ego, boldness, and kindness.

Black Forest Labs

Black Forest Labs is a research lab behind foundational generative AI technologies like Stable Diffusion and FLUX, powering tools used by millions worldwide. They are a fast-growing, distributed team with a culture of research excellence, open science, and low ego.

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