Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs (BFL) is the AI research lab behind Latent Diffusion, Stable Diffusion, and now the FLUX model family — foundational text-to-image and video generation systems. Founded in 2024 by Robin Rombach (CEO) and co-founders who built Stable Diffusion at LMU Munich, BFL sells access to its FLUX models via API and enterprise licensing. Developers and businesses embed FLUX directly into their products; current enterprise customers include Adobe, Canva, Meta, Snap, Microsoft, Picsart, and ElevenLabs. In July 2026, BFL launched FLUX 3, a jointly-trained multimodal model that generates images, audio/video clips up to 20 seconds, and extends the same architecture to robotic vision and actions — a significant leap beyond image-only generation. BFL operates from Freiburg, Germany (primary R&D) and San Francisco (commercial expansion), with roughly 107 employees as of mid-2026. The company leans on open-source releases to build ecosystem loyalty while monetizing premium/enterprise model variants.
$3.25B valuation · 107 employees · 16 open roles
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- Senior Account Executive — GTM · Freiburg (Germany), Berlin (Germany), Munich (Germany), Frankfurt (Germany), Paris (France), Amsterdam (Netherlands), London (United Kingdom); Freiburg
- Developer Experience Engineer — Product · Freiburg (Germany); Freiburg
- Member of Technical Staff - Image / Video Generation — Research · Freiburg (Germany); Freiburg
- Field Marketing Manager — Marketing · San Francisco (USA), Seattle (USA), Los Angeles (USA), Austin (USA), Freiburg (Germany), Berlin (Germany), Munich (Germany), Frankfurt (Germany), Paris (France), Amsterdam (Netherlands), London (United Kingdom); Freiburg; Remote; San Francisco
- Senior Partnerships Manager — GTM · San Francisco (USA), Seattle (USA), Los Angeles (USA), Austin (USA); San Francisco
- Account Executive — GTM · Freiburg (Germany), Berlin (Germany), Munich (Germany), Frankfurt (Germany), Paris (France), Amsterdam (Netherlands), London (United Kingdom); Freiburg
- Product Engineer — Product · Freiburg (Germany); Freiburg
- IT Engineer — Engineering · Freiburg (Germany); Freiburg
- Member of Technical Staff - Pretraining — Research · Freiburg (Germany); Freiburg
- Member of Technical Staff - Post Training — Research · Freiburg (Germany); Freiburg
- Member of Technical Staff - VLM — Research · Freiburg (Germany); Freiburg
- Management Accountant — Finance · Freiburg (Germany); Freiburg
- Member of Technical Staff - Research Engineer — Research · San Francisco (USA), Freiburg (Germany); Freiburg; San Francisco
- Member of Technical Staff - Model Serving / API Backend Engineer — Engineering · San Francisco (USA); Freiburg; San Francisco
- Forward Deployed Robotics Engineer — GTM · Freiburg (Germany); Freiburg
- Member of Technical Staff - Research Infrastructure Engineer — Engineering · Freiburg (Germany); Freiburg; San Francisco