Black Forest Labs
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DeveloperExperienceEngineer
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“Developer Experience Engineer at Black Forest Labs. Skills: Developer Experience, API Design, Agent Stack. Own DevExp as a product surface. Partner with platform engineering on API design”
What You'll Achieve.
Make BFL the platform developers choose; Platform judged by speed from idea to production call; Platform judged by how good it feels along the way; Make BFL the best visual AI platform for agents; Make BFL trivially usable from any agent loop; Fix cliffs in the developer funnel
Industry & Context.
Spotting where the platform is friction
Join us in Freiburg or SF at least 2 days a week, Work remotely with a monthly in-person week
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
4+ years building software, meaningful time on developer-facing products, Full-stack comfortable, TypeScript / React / Next on the front, Python (and ideally Go or Rust) on the back, Deep instincts on API design, Fluent in the 2026 agent stack, MCP, tool use, major agent runtimes, Shipped developer-facing product
Nice to Have
Background at a developer platform where DevExp was a top-level metric, Built or meaningfully contributed to an MCP server, Experience with media-generation or other high-latency, async, job-shaped APIs, Public surface — OSS, a writeup, a dashboard you're proud of
What You'll Do.
Own DevExp as a product surface
Partner with platform engineering on API design
Work with product engineering on dashboard surfaces
Make BFL the best visual AI platform for agents
Design reference patterns and SDK primitives
Stress-test API and SDK changes
Own the portfolio of entry points
Add composable workflows and sane defaults
Partner with Growth engineer and Product on developer funnel
Be opinionated on API and SDK design
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work shoulder-to-shoulder with API/platform eng team; Work with research as new capabilities land; Work with DevRel; Partner with platform engineering; Work with product engineering; Partner with Growth engineer and Product
Full Job Description
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 video. We’re creating the generative models that power how people make images and video—tools used by millions of creators, developers, and businesses worldwide. 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 FLUX is the model developers want. BFL still has to become the platform they choose. In 2026 that platform is judged by a single question, asked by both humans and the agents acting on their behalf: how fast can I go from idea to a production-shaped call, and how good does it feel along the way? We're hiring one person to own that answer end-to-end. Not the SDK alone, not the dashboard alone, not the API alone — the whole developer experience, for both the humans building on BFL and the agents building on their behalf. You're the person on the team who breathes DevExp: spotting where the platform is friction for a developer or for an agent, deciding whether the fix lives in the API contract, the SDK, the console, the docs surface, the MCP server, or the onboarding flow — and then shipping it. You sit inside product engineering. You work shoulder-to-shoulder with the API/platform eng team (think: designing the next API revision), with research as new capabilities land, and with DevRel. Your job is to make BFL the platform that wins on developer experience, the way Stripe won payments and Vercel won frontends. What You’ll Work On Own DevExp as a product surface — wherever the bottleneck is, that's where you ship next. One sprint that might be the API contract, the next it's the dashboard onboarding, the next it's an MC
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