Forward Deployed Engineer at Stability AI

<h1><strong>Forward Deployed Engineer</strong></h1> <p>&lt; Remote &gt;</p> <h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <p>We are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to help creative teams and enterprises adopt generative AI across image, video, 3D, vector graphics, and design.</p> <p>This role sits at the intersection of engineering, applied AI, product, and customer delivery. You will work directly with customers to understand complex workflows, identify high-value opportunities, and build solutions that connect emerging AI capabilities with real production environments.</p> <p>The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering skills with experience in generative AI and visual computing. You should be comfortable moving from an ambiguous customer problem to a working prototype and, ultimately, a reliable production solution.</p> <h2><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Partner with creative, technical, and business stakeholders to understand their workflows, systems, and goals.</li> <li>Identify opportunities to apply generative AI across image, video, 3D, vector graphics, and design.</li> <li>Build prototypes, integrations, and production-ready solutions that deliver measurable customer value.</li> <li>Adapt generative and multimodal models to customer-specific use cases, datasets, brand requirements, and production environments.</li> <li>Integrate AI capabilities into existing creative tools, content pipelines, and enterprise systems.</li> <li>Work with research, product, engineering, and design teams to translate customer needs into technical requirements and product direction.</li> <li>Evaluate solutions based on quality, controllability, consistency, reliability, and production usefulness.</li> <li>Diagnose technical issues across models, APIs, data pipelines, infrastructure, and customer integrations.</li> <li>Document successful approaches and develop reusable implementation patterns for future deployments.</li> <li>Serve as a trusted technical partner throughout discovery, prototyping, implementation, and deployment.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Qualifications</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Strong software engineering experience building and deploying machine learning or AI-powered applications.</li> <li>Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD, or equivalent practical experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, or a related field.</li> <li>Experience with generative AI, multimodal systems, computer vision, graphics, or creative technology.</li> <li>Strong programming skills in Python and experience with frameworks such as PyTorch.</li> <li>Experience turning prototypes and experiments into reliable production systems.</li> <li>Familiarity with APIs, cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, model serving, and enterprise integrations.</li> <li>Ability to translate ambiguous customer problems into clearly scoped technical solutions.</li> <li>Strong communication skills and experience working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.</li> <li>Ability to balance speed, technical quality, customer value, and scalability.</li> <li>Experience in several of the following areas:</li> <ul> <li>Generative image or video models</li> <li>3D generation, reconstruction, or neural rendering</li> <li>Vector graphics, layout, typography, or design systems</li> <li>Multimodal representation learning</li> <li>Creative software and production pipelines</li> <li>Model customization, fine-tuning, or inference optimization</li> </ul> </ul> <h2><strong>Highly Desirable</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Experience in forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, applied AI, machine learning engineering, or technical consulting.</li> <li>Experience delivering complex technical implementations for enterprise customers.</li> <li>Experience in professional creative domains such as VFX, games, animation, advertising, e-commerce, graphic design, or 3D production.</li> <li>Experience integrating AI models into creative tools or content-production pipelines.</li> <li>Experience with controllable generation, layered editing, multi-view consistency, relightable assets, structured design outputs, or brand-constrained generation.</li> <li>Familiarity with model evaluation, GPU infrastructure, inference optimization, and production monitoring.</li> <li>Willingness to travel periodically for customer workshops and strategic engagements.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Equal Employment Opportunity</strong></p> <p>We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, or other legally protected statuses.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>