Black Forest Labs, San Francisco (United States)
Black Forest Labs’ products arm individuals with great creative power to produce novel media across a range of modalities. The quality of our models inevitably also gives bad actors the opportunity to create harmful, copyright-infringing, or illegal content.
In this role you will develop and improve our moderation system: a multilayered stack of detection models. Succeeding in this role requires creativity and familiarity with a large range of ML techniques. An effective solution that balances accuracy, cost, latency, and scalability will vary case-by-case, from classical ML fine-tuning, to RAG-based agents, to simple, lightweight semantic embeddings.
This is a Senior / Staff IC role. Our ideal candidate is able to work across the full stack of ML engineering, collaborate cross-functionally with many teams, including legal, policy, go-to market, and infra, and has a real interest in the domains of AI safety and integrity.
If this sounds like work you’d enjoy, we’d love to hear from you.
US $220,000 – $280,000 USD + Equity
Note: We may use AI-assisted tools to help organize applications. All hiring decisions are always made by our team.
We’re the team building the foundational layer for visual intelligence: multimodal models trained jointly on images, video, audio, and action to see, generate, and understand the world.
Our founding team pioneered latent diffusion and Stable Diffusion, the breakthroughs that made generative AI accessible to millions. With FLUX, we're pushing into generative media at scale, machines that act in the physical world, and emerging applications in computer use.
Our FLUX models top public benchmarks and run in production in some of the world's biggest platforms. We're a small, fast growing research lab competing with the largest companies in the world. From our labs in Freiburg to San Francisco, we're building what comes next.
We’re a distributed team with real offices that people actually use. This role is based in San Francisco, and you’ll join us in the office at least 2 days a week, or one full week every other week.
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