OmegaHires · 1 day ago
Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer
San Francisco, CA, CA
Full-time, Contract
Onsite
Mid, Senior LevelOmegaHires is seeking a high-agency Forward Deployed / Applied ML Engineer to bridge cutting-edge generative AI research with real-world production systems. The role involves deploying, optimizing, and customizing FLUX diffusion models in various environments while collaborating directly with customers to address their needs.
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Responsibilities
Deploy and optimize FLUX diffusion models in customer environments, balancing latency, cost, and output quality
Architect deep product integrations beyond APIs, including model hosting, inference optimization, and production deployment
Fine-tune and customize foundation models for customer-specific visual media use cases
Lead technical deep dives with customers to diagnose model, infrastructure, and performance issues
Translate customer challenges into actionable engineering solutions and research feedback
Identify emerging industry use cases for generative visual AI
Qualification
Required
Hands-on experience deploying and serving generative AI / deep learning models in production
Strong expertise in diffusion models, model fine-tuning, optimization, and inference
Proven experience as an ML Engineer shipping models used by real systems
Strong Python skills and experience designing and consuming APIs
Ability to communicate complex ML tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Experience working directly with customers on technical AI integrations
Know the FLUX ecosystem intimately—ComfyUI, common training frameworks, the tools practitioners actually use
Preferred
Deep knowledge of diffusion models, flow matching, distillation, and advanced fine-tuning techniques
Experience optimizing inference for transformer-based models under real production constraints
Experience deploying models on cloud platforms with modern serving infrastructure
Background contributing to open-source ML / diffusion model projects
Experience designing solutions in constrained enterprise environments
Company
OmegaHires
OmegaHires provides a permanent & contingent workforce across a variety of digital and enterprise technologies - Frontend/UX development.
Founded in 2014
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase