Black Forest Labs
bfl.ai
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Foundation Models
Generative Image
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$307.6M
1 round on record
Latest round
$307.6M
Series B · Nov 2025 · 10 mo ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
14
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
11
Samsung Next, Andreessen Horowitz
The money's age
Fresh money
10 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
41/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jul 24
On the Hacker News front page Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models · 318 points
Jun 3
New executive Robin Rombach, Managing Directors · SEC Form D
Jan 16
On the Hacker News front page FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence · 227 points
Nov 25, 2025
On the Hacker News front page FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence · 372 points
Nov 21, 2025
Raised a round Series B $307.6M · SEC Form D
May 29, 2025
On the Hacker News front page FLUX.1 Kontext · 531 points
2024
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.29%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
20
best: 571 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | Nov 2025 | $307.6M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | BFL GmbH | its site |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Patrick EsserExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Robin RombachManaging Directorscompany's site
Andreas BlattmannManaging Directorscompany's site
Axel SauerManaging Directorscompany's site
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Samsung Next 
Andreessen Horowitz 
Earlybird 
LEA Partners GmbH 
North Zone 
Airstreet 
Headline 
Notioncapital 
Salesforce Ventures 
SV Angel 
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How Black Forest Labs hires
Truth index
C 66/100
Ghost roles
57%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Black Forest Labs scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 14 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 57% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Headquartered in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, Black Forest Labs is a generative artificial intelligence research company and visual infrastructure provider. The company develops state-of-the-art open-weight and proprietary image and video foundation models - including its flagship FLUX model family - built on advanced flow-matching architectures, low-latency enterprise APIs, and multimodal editing frameworks.
News
Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 Action, an open robotics AI model
Black Forest Labs is entering robotics with FLUX 3 Action. The open-world-action model uses camera feeds to predict what action a robot should take next. With just seven billion parameters, it sets a record on the RoboLab-120 benchmark while running up to
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Black Forest Labs debuts FLUX 3 Action, tops RoboLab leaderboard
Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 Action, a 7B-parameter open-weight robotic model claiming top spot on RoboLab-120 with 80-101ms latency on
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Black Forest Labs debuts FLUX 3 Action, an open-weights AI robotics model that tops the leaderboard at half the size of its competition
The company says it trained task-specific FLUX 3 Action policies to fly drones in real life and even successfully beat the hit computer game Doom with no in-game deaths.
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Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 capable of generating images and 20-second video with audio - but in limited release to start
FLUX 3 is jointly trained across those modalities rather than assembling separate image, video and audio models behind a common interface.
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FLUX 3: Multimodal Video, Image & Audio
Meet FLUX 3, Black Forest Labs' multimodal model for video with native audio, image generation, and action prediction. Explore capabilities and early results.
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FLUX 3 x mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models
FLUX 3 is running robots. Built with mimic and deployed at Audi, FLUX-mimic shows content creation and physical AI share one foundation: a model that understands the world.
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FLUX 3: One Multimodal Model Black Forest Labs
One multimodal model for Image, Video, Audio and Action-Prediction. Creations are truer to life in every kind of style.
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FLUX 3: One Multimodal Model Black Forest Labs
One multimodal model for Image, Video, Audio and Action-Prediction. Creations are truer to life in every kind of style.
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FLUX VTO: Virtual Try-On at scale
FLUX Virtual Try-On allows users to seem themselves in outfits before they buy with high accuracy and garment consistency. Gives you sub-4 second generations across thousands of products at low cost and low latency.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Black Forest Labs over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
49
Postings analysed
14
Stack modernity
81/100AI adopter
Languages
Python21%
TypeScript14%
Go7%
Rust7%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch29%
FSDP14%
CUDA7%
CUTLASS7%
Cloud & platforms
CUDA Toolkit7%
Figma7%
Vercel7%
Anthropic7%
AI & ML
Stable Diffusion100%
LLM36%
Claude7%
LoRA7%
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49 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$257k
Typical range
$112k – $380k
Open positions
11
11
Jobs
Junior
9.1%
Middle
18.2%
Senior
18.2%
Staff
54.5%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $180k | $180k |
| Middle | 2 | $162k | $112k – $212k |
| Senior | 2 | $210k | $207k – $212k |
| Staff | 6 | $380k | $257k – $380k |
Highest paying role
Member of Technical Staff - Image / Video Generation
$380k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Black Forest Labs
By role, level and city, against the market · 11 jobs with pay
People
Patrick Esser
Executive Officer, Director
Robin Rombach
Managing Directors
Andreas Blattmann
Managing Directors
Axel Sauer
Managing Directors
Anjney Midha
Director
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data
Growth
Hiring Momentum
57/100
Growing
Open positions
14
0 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
100 days
faster than 14% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
10/16/2026
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
29% ▲
Sales
29% ▼
Backend
14% ▼
Finance
14% ▼
Marketing
14% ▼
Activity Timeline
Removed Rest API from stack
Sep 2026
Added Rest API to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added RLAIF to stack
Sep 2026
Added Reward Modeling to stack
Sep 2026
Added Vision-Language-Action to stack
Sep 2026
Added Model Distillation to stack
Sep 2026
Added CUTLASS to stack
Sep 2026
New location: San Francisco
Aug 2026
Added A/B Testing to stack
Aug 2026
Added Post-training to stack
Aug 2026
Added DPO to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
10
Hiring now
10
Countries
5
Busiest office
Freiburg im Breisgau
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Freiburg im Breisgau
Germany
HQ
13 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 62% engineering 50-200 est. staff $276k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Sales, DevOps
Ingeborg-Krummer-Schroth-Str. 18A, 4OG
Paris
France
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $193k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Marketing
Ingeborg-Krummer-Schroth-Str. 18A, 4OG
San Francisco
United States
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 10-50 est. staff $240k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Marketing, Sales
410 Townsend St. Suite 350
Berlin
Germany
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $193k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Marketing
London
United Kingdom
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $193k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Marketing
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $193k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Marketing
Munich
Germany
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $193k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Marketing
Los Angeles
United States
Engineering / R&D
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $212k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Sales
Seattle
United States
Engineering / R&D
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $212k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Sales
Austin
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $212k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
Jobs
≈ $165k – $316k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Freiburg im Breisgau
Stable Diffusion
Fine-tuning
Post-training
Apply
≈ $108k – $250k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Master's Degree • Freiburg im Breisgau
Python
Stable Diffusion
Model Context Protocol
Fine-tuning
RLHF
Multimodal AI
AI Agents
PyTorch
LLM
DPO
Reward Modeling
Apply
$146k – $270k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco • Freiburg im Breisgau
Stable Diffusion
CUDA Toolkit
Quantization
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
LLM
CUDA
Triton
FSDP
NCCL
CUTLASS
Apply
$157k – $214k per year • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Freiburg im Breisgau
Python
Go
Rust
TypeScript
Claude
Stable Diffusion
Model Context Protocol
Function Calling
LLM
Anthropic
Agentic Workflows
Tool Use
DevOps
Vercel
Cloudflare
Platform Engineering
Management
Stripe
Apply
$146k – $382k per year • In office • Full-Time • Freiburg im Breisgau
Stable Diffusion
LoRA
Fine-tuning
Multimodal AI
VLM
PEFT
LLM
Tokenization
SFT
Apply
$146k – $382k per year • In office • Full-Time • Freiburg im Breisgau
Stable Diffusion
Fine-tuning
RLHF
Multimodal AI
Knowledge Distillation
PyTorch
DPO
SFT
Post-training
Model Distillation
RLAIF
Reward Modeling
Apply
$146k – $382k per year • In office • Full-Time • Freiburg im Breisgau
Python
Stable Diffusion
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
LLM
Tokenization
FSDP
Apply
$112k – $259k per year • In office • Full-Time • Freiburg im Breisgau
Python
Stable Diffusion
DevOps
GCP
Prometheus
SLURM
AWS
Kubernetes
Apply
$146k – $382k per year • In office • Full-Time • Freiburg im Breisgau
Stable Diffusion
Fine-tuning
Diffusion Models
PyTorch
Triton
FSDP
Apply
Financials
Total raised
$307.6M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | 2025 | $307.6M | Details |