Member of Technical Staff - Image / Video Generation

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

You've trained large-scale diffusion models and developed strong intuitions about what matters. You know that at research scale, every design choice has tradeoffs, and the only way to know which ones are worth making is through careful ablation. You're comfortable debugging distributed training issues and presenting research findings to the team.

You likely have:

• Hands-on experience training large-scale diffusion models for image and video data, with practical knowledge of common failure modes and what matters most in training
• Experience fine-tuning diffusion models for specialized applications—upscalers, inpainting, outpainting, or other tasks where understanding the domain matters as much as understanding the architecture
• Deep understanding of how to effectively evaluate image and video generative models—knowing which metrics correlate with quality and which are just convenient proxies
• Strong proficiency in PyTorch, transformer architectures, and the full ecosystem of modern deep learning
• Solid understanding of distributed training techniques—FSDP, low precision training, model parallelism—because our models don't fit on one GPU and training decisions impact research outcomes

We'd be especially excited if you:

• Have experience writing forward and backward Triton kernels and ensuring their correctness while considering floating point errors
• Bring proficiency with profiling, debugging, and optimizing single and multi-GPU operations using tools like Nsight or stack trace viewers
• Know the performance characteristics of different architectural choices at scale
• Have published research that contributed to how people think about generative models

HOW WE WORK TOGETHER

We’re a distributed team with real offices that people actually use. This role is based in Freiburg, and you’ll join us in the office at least 2 days a week, or one full week every other week.

EVERYTHING WE DO IS GROUNDED IN FOUR VALUES:

• Obsessed. We are a frontier research lab. The science has to be right, the understanding deep, the product beautiful.
• Low Ego. The work speaks. The best idea wins, no matter who said it. Credit is shared. Nobody is above any task.
• Bold. We take the ambitious bet. We ship, we do not wait for conditions to be perfect.
• Kind. People over politics. We treat each other with genuine warmth. Agency without empathy creates chaos.

If this sounds like work you’d enjoy, we’d love to hear from you.

Base Annual Salary:

EU €130,000-€340,000 + Equity

Note: We may use AI-assisted tools to help organize applications. All hiring decisions are always made by our team.

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Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), table; dl-de/by-2-0; StarIn's calculation

€46,000 to €65,000