> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Solutions Engineer Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5280b837122a6a78 Black Forest Labs posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in San Francisco, CA, at $180,000–$285,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. A customer-facing Solutions Engineer on the GTM team who supports customers from presales through production deployment of BFL models. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Black Forest Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/black-forest-labs) Posted Oct 29, 2026 by Black Forest Labs · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 **$180,000–$285,000** + equity San Francisco, CA Hybrid, 2 days a week in office Full-time A customer-facing Solutions Engineer on the GTM team who supports customers from presales through production deployment of BFL models. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F5280b837122a6a78&placement=top) - [View posting at Black Forest Labs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/black-forest-labs/5c4034d7-c6de-4010-ac39-40e810d95f07/application) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay $180K–$285K Above the median Midpoint $233K · median $190K This job $180K to $285K. Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. ### The work Builds what the customer runs Balance **Mixed** Project stages 1. Pre-sales 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in San Francisco, CA. Could you work there? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. [What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: San Francisco, CA - **Work arrangement**: Hybrid, 2 days a week in office - **Remote work restrictions**: Based in San Francisco; in the office at least 2 days a week or one full week every other week. - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Pay**: ## More like this [Assort Health](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/assort-health) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/acba7fa1d6e7b519) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 2mo ago $190,000–$240,000 [Sierra](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sierra) ### [Healthcare Integrations Architect](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f70a270105c7febe) San Francisco, CA On-site 3mo ago $150,000–$290,000 [Edison Scientific](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/edison-scientific) ### [Forward Deployed AI Engineer ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d999f8040fbafe9a) San Francisco, CA On-site 4mo ago $200,000–$300,000 ## The job description from Black Forest Labs Posted by Black Forest Labs on Oct 29, 2026 ### About Black Forest Labs We’re the team building the foundational layer for visual intelligence: multimodal models trained jointly on images, video, audio, and action to see, generate, and understand the world. Our founding team pioneered latent diffusion and Stable Diffusion, the breakthroughs that made generative AI accessible to millions. With FLUX, we're pushing into generative media at scale, machines that act in the physical world, and emerging applications in computer use. Our FLUX models top public benchmarks and run in production in some of the world's biggest platforms. We're a small, fast growing research lab competing with the largest companies in the world. From our labs in Freiburg to San Francisco, we're building what comes next. ### Why This Role We at Black Forest labs are seeking a Solutions Engineer to facilitate the adoption of our models among a growing customer base and collaborate with them to address complex technical challenges. The Solutions Engineer will be an integral part of our GTM team, which is dedicated to driving the successful deployment of BFL models. They will work hand-in-hand with customers from the pre-sale stage to post-implementation, ensuring our solutions meet and exceed customer expectations. In this role, you’ll manage daily customer relations involving multiple stakeholders (CEO, Sales team, research scientists, and engineers) and also function as a key resource in externalising our research in production settings. ### What You’ll Work On - Collaborate strategically with our Sales team to enhance the technical aspects of the sales process. - You’ll be responsible for onboarding customers on our suite of models, providing guidance on prompting, evaluation, and finetuning, and ensuring the best production integration with back-end and front-end interfaces. - Craft compelling technical demonstrations that clearly communicate our product's value proposition. - You’ll individually guide and and support customers in deploying our models into production use cases with a considerable business impact. - You’ll work in collaboration with our BD team, researchers, other engineers on our most complex customer projects and contributing to our open-source codebases for tasks such as inference and finetuning. - You’ll be involved in pre-sales calls to understand potential clients' needs, challenges, and aspirations. You will provide technical guidance on our products and explain BFL technologies to various stakeholders. - Create technical enablement resources that amplify our sales team's effectiveness and technical fluency. - Build self-service tools and documentation that empower customers to implement solutions independently. - Your collaboration with our Applied research to improve continuously our product and model capabilities based on customers’ feedback ### What We’re Looking For - Are passionate about AI, technology and BFL models - Enjoy working directly with customers, iterating on solutions and providing tailored support - Have a strong technical background in order to help customers architect integration between our solutions and their existing solutions - You have strong technical coding skills in Python, inclusive of a deep understanding of software development, software architecture, and common integration patterns - Excellent communication skills with the ability to adapt messaging to different audiences and explain complex technical concepts in simple terms with technical and non-technical audiences ### Ideally you have - Contributed to open-source projects in particular in the space of diffusion models - Experience as a Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect or Technical Product Manager ### How We Work Together We’re a distributed team with real offices that people actually use. This role is based in San Francisco, and you’ll join us in the office at least 2 days a week, or one full week every other week. ### Everything we do is grounded in four values - **Obsessed.** We are a frontier research lab. The science has to be right, the understanding deep, the product beautiful. - **Low Ego.** The work speaks. The best idea wins, no matter who said it. Credit is shared. Nobody is above any task. - **Bold.** We take the ambitious bet. We ship, we do not wait for conditions to be perfect. - **Kind.** People over politics. We treat each other with genuine warmth. Agency without empathy creates chaos. If this sounds like work you’d enjoy, we’d love to hear from you. ### Base Annual Salary **US** $180,000 - $285,000 USD + Equity Note: We may use AI-assisted tools to help organize applications. All hiring decisions are always made by our team. [View posting at Black Forest Labs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/black-forest-labs/5c4034d7-c6de-4010-ac39-40e810d95f07/application) ## About Black Forest Labs Builds FLUX visual foundation models and delivery stack for developers, creative platforms, and enterprises via API, open weights, playground, and custom deployments. 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