Product Research Lead

About Black Forest Labs

We're the team behind Latent Diffusion, Stable Diffusion, and FLUX — foundational technologies that changed how the world creates images and videos. Our FLUX models are among the most advanced in the world, and we're just getting started.

Headquartered in Freiburg, Germany with a growing presence in San Francisco, we're scaling fast while staying true to what makes us different: research excellence, open science, and building technology that expands human creativity.

Why This Role

Our model research moves fast. What's missing is someone accountable for one question: what should our models get better at next, and how will we know when they have?

You’ll lead Product Research, the team between our researchers and the market.

You’ll take raw signal from evals, leaderboards, customers and usage data, turn it into a clear measure of where our models stand, and decide which gaps matter most.

Your squad of Applied Researchers runs the evals and closes those gaps through post-training.

You’ll work closely with Research, Backend, Product and GTM.

What You'll Work On

What We're Looking For

You've done at least one of these:

Nice to have: hands-on eval or ML engineering experience, and experience with diffusion or video models.

How We Work Together

We’re a distributed team with real offices that people actually use.

You’ll join us in Freiburg at least 2 days a week (or one full week every other week).

We’ll cover reasonable travel costs to make this possible.

We think in-person time matters, and we’ve structured things to make it accessible to all.

We’ll discuss what this will look like for the role during our interview process.

Everything we do is grounded in four values:

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

Compensation : 172K-220K base + equity, depending on profile

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