Member of Technical Staff - Pretraining

Black Forest Labs
Freiburg
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Education & TrainingSkills: ["Collaboration","Problem-solving","Communication"]

Senior IC role focusing on leading large-scale pretraining for multimodal foundation models (image, video, audio). You will shape objectives, architectures, and data strategies, contribute across the stack from low-level GPU optimizations to high-level model design, and drive cross-team research initiatives in a distributed, research-driven environment.

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Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs
3 months ago

Member of Technical Staff - Pretraining

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Job Summary

Senior IC role focusing on leading large-scale pretraining for multimodal foundation models (image, video, audio). You will shape objectives, architectures, and data strategies, contribute across the stack from low-level GPU optimizations to high-level model design, and drive cross-team research initiatives in a distributed, research-driven environment.
Location: Freiburg
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Education & Training

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead large-scale pretraining experiments for our multimodal foundation models (architecture, objective functions, scaling strategies).
  • •Develop and evaluate novel ideas across architecture, optimizers, and training algorithms.
  • •Contribute across the full stack: low-level GPU and systems optimizations, research code, and high-level model design.
  • •Lead focused research projects independently and drive larger cross-team initiatives.
  • •Foster collaboration with Freiburg/SF teams and contribute to data strategy and experimentation pipelines.

Key Requirements

  • •Led or co-owned pretraining for a foundation model (image, video, LLM, or multimodal) that shipped to production or a major release.
Experience:MultimodalGenerative modelsResearch & development
Skills:CollaborationProblem-solvingCommunication
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonPyTorchDistributed trainingGPUFSDPTPPPTokenizationAttention patterns

Company Brief

Black Forest Labs
Develops AI-driven solutions and provides machine learning consultancy to help businesses integrate advanced models and data-driven workflows. Focuses on prototyping, model deployment, and bespoke AI services to address industry-specific problems.
Industry: Consulting
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