Member of Technical Staff - VLM

Black Forest Labs, Freiburg (Germany)

What you will do

Lead development and training of state-of-the-art multimodal vision-language models within the FLUX stack — innovating on architectures, not just applying existing ones
Design fine-tuning strategies that adapt VLMs to specialized creative use cases (captioning, editing instructions, prompt enhancement) that general-purpose models can't handle
Research integrations between VLM/LLM capabilities and our diffusion and flow pipelines — finding creative ways to improve generation quality and controllability without computational bottlenecks
Evaluate emerging multimodal architectures, translating the best of recent research into practical improvements

You've pretrained or significantly advanced a VLM (not just SFT'd or LoRA'd one) that was deployed in a production system or released publicly
Strong publication record or unambiguous production track record showing you push the frontier on multimodal architectures

Black Forest Labs, Freiburg (Germany)

Lead development and training of state-of-the-art multimodal vision-language models within the FLUX stack — innovating on architectures, not just applying existing ones
Design fine-tuning strategies that adapt VLMs to specialized creative use cases (captioning, editing instructions, prompt enhancement) that general-purpose models can't handle
Research integrations between VLM/LLM capabilities and our diffusion and flow pipelines — finding creative ways to improve generation quality and controllability without computational bottlenecks
Evaluate emerging multimodal architectures, translating the best of recent research into practical improvements

You've pretrained or significantly advanced a VLM (not just SFT'd or LoRA'd one) that was deployed in a production system or released publicly
Strong publication record or unambiguous production track record showing you push the frontier on multimodal architectures