Product Engineer
Frontier AI research lab building the FLUX family of multimodal visual-intelligence models and delivering them through an API, playground, and open weights.
Funding history
About Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs develops generative AI models for image, video, audio, and action prediction, alongside production API and enterprise deployment offerings.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build and ship frontend-led full-stack products, including model playgrounds, dashboards, demos, and starter applications. You will turn model capabilities into intuitive interfaces, own frontend architecture and visual quality, solve complex media and real-time interaction problems, and contribute across APIs, databases, and migrations when needed.
Requirements
- Track record of shipping products used by real users
- Experience directing coding agents on non-trivial existing codebases
- Ability to critically review generated code for correctness, security, and maintainability
- Visual design and interface-craft skills
- Strong product judgment for UX and technical tradeoffs
- Strong debugging skills
- Ability to work with ambiguous requirements and shifting priorities
Responsibilities
- Ship high-quality web applications end to end
- Turn research capabilities into products from prototype through production
- Own frontend architecture and engineering practices
- Set visual standards through shared components and interaction polish
- Design interactions for long-running generation, editing, media payloads, and real-time inference
- Improve performance for media processing and user-perceived latency
- Work across frontend, API, database, and migration layers
- Work with research, infrastructure, growth, and design to prioritize work
Benefits
- Equity
- Benefits programs
- Hybrid work environment in Freiburg
- Coverage of travel for the interview onsite
- Coverage of reasonable travel costs for required in-person time
- Regular global off-sites
Hiring Process
Four conversations, including a live build on your own machine using your usual tooling, followed by a half-day onsite in Freiburg.
