# Member of Technical Staff - Model Serving / API Backend Engineer at Black Forest Labs

- Company: Black Forest Labs
- What the company does: Backed by a16z.
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2024-09-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/black-forest-labs/78d05e87-8200-4916-b616-6d67ee677012
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/black-forest-labs-member-of-technical-staff-model-serving-api-backend-engineer/

## About the role

You will own the bridge between research breakthroughs and production systems. Turn research checkpoints into production-ready inference services

## What they're looking for

- You’ve built and operated systems at meaningful scale. You understand the difference between a research prototype and a production system. You are comfortable navigating ambiguity, making tradeoffs, and improving systems under real-world constraints
- Building and operating ML inference services in production
- Designing scalable API architectures with async processing
- Optimizing GPU workloads (batching, quantization, compilation, CUDA)
- Managing distributed systems and task queues under variable load
- Implementing monitoring and observability for production ML systems

Tags: Engineering