Member of Technical Staff - VLM

📋 Description

• Lead development of multimodal vision-language models within the FLUX stack
• Innovate on architectures beyond off-the-shelf VLMs
• Design fine-tuning for creative use cases (captioning, prompts)
• Integrate VLM/LLM with diffusion/flow pipelines for quality and controllability
• Evaluate emerging multimodal architectures and translate to improvements

🎯 Requirements

• Pretrained or significantly advanced a VLM deployed in production or public release
• Strong publication or production track record in multimodal architectures
• Deep understanding of vision-language interaction: tokenization, grounding, cross-modal attention
• Experience with distributed multi-node training
• Comfort shipping work that generalizes beyond research
• Experience with diffusion or flow-based models is a plus

🎁 Benefits

• Base Annual Salary: EU €130,000-€340,000 + Equity
• Flexible work options with in-person cadence at Freiburg or SF
• Reasonable travel support for in-person weeks