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title: 'Forward Deployed Engineer at Stability AI'
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# Forward Deployed Engineer at Stability AI

- **Company:** Stability AI
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** http://stability.ai/careers?gh_jid=4966000101

## Job description

Forward Deployed Engineer

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## About the Role

We are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to help creative teams and enterprises adopt generative AI across image, video, 3D, vector graphics, and design.

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.

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.

## Responsibilities

- Partner with creative, technical, and business stakeholders to understand their workflows, systems, and goals.
- Identify opportunities to apply generative AI across image, video, 3D, vector graphics, and design.
- Build prototypes, integrations, and production-ready solutions that deliver measurable customer value.
- Adapt generative and multimodal models to customer-specific use cases, datasets, brand requirements, and production environments.
- Integrate AI capabilities into existing creative tools, content pipelines, and enterprise systems.
- Work with research, product, engineering, and design teams to translate customer needs into technical requirements and product direction.
- Evaluate solutions based on quality, controllability, consistency, reliability, and production usefulness.
- Diagnose technical issues across models, APIs, data pipelines, infrastructure, and customer integrations.
- Document successful approaches and develop reusable implementation patterns for future deployments.
- Serve as a trusted technical partner throughout discovery, prototyping, implementation, and deployment.

## Qualifications

- Strong software engineering experience building and deploying machine learning or AI-powered applications.
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD, or equivalent practical experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, or a related field.
- Experience with generative AI, multimodal systems, computer vision, graphics, or creative technology.
- Strong programming skills in Python and experience with frameworks such as PyTorch.
- Experience turning prototypes and experiments into reliable production systems.
- Familiarity with APIs, cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, model serving, and enterprise integrations.
- Ability to translate ambiguous customer problems into clearly scoped technical solutions.
- Strong communication skills and experience working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to balance speed, technical quality, customer value, and scalability.
- Experience in several of the following areas:
- Generative image or video models
- 3D generation, reconstruction, or neural rendering
- Vector graphics, layout, typography, or design systems
- Multimodal representation learning
- Creative software and production pipelines
- Model customization, fine-tuning, or inference optimization

Highly Desirable

- Experience in forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, applied AI, machine learning engineering, or technical consulting.
- Experience delivering complex technical implementations for enterprise customers.
- Experience in professional creative domains such as VFX, games, animation, advertising, e-commerce, graphic design, or 3D production.
- Experience integrating AI models into creative tools or content-production pipelines.
- Experience with controllable generation, layered editing, multi-view consistency, relightable assets, structured design outputs, or brand-constrained generation.
- Familiarity with model evaluation, GPU infrastructure, inference optimization, and production monitoring.
- Willingness to travel periodically for customer workshops and strategic engagements.

## Equal Employment Opportunity

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.

## About Stability AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Stability AI develops and deploys open generative AI models and enterprise platforms for creating images, video, audio, and 3D content.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Unattributed VC – last round led by WPP in 2025; total funding ~$256M)
- **Headquarters**: Los Angeles, California, United States (with additional offices in London, United Kingdom)
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Emad Mostaque, Cyrus Hodes (current CEO: Prem Akkaraju; Executive Chairman: Sean Parker)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Generative AI / Artificial Intelligence
- **Target customers**: Enterprise teams in marketing, gaming, entertainment, and creative production; also individual developers and creators.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Activating humanity’s potential through generative AI.” (from LinkedIn) / Build for creatives first, provide enterprise-ready solutions.

## Products & Services
- **Stable Diffusion (Image generation)**: Open-source and commercially licensed text-to-image models (e.g., Stable Diffusion 3.5), with APIs and self-hosted deployment options.
- **Stable Video / 4D**: Models for video generation and editing, including volumetric generative media.
- **Stable Audio**: Audio generation models; Stable Audio 3.0 released for artistic experimentation.
- **Brand Studio**: Fully managed creative production platform for enterprise teams, leveraging the company’s models.
- **Self-Hosted / Enterprise Deployment**: Custom licenses, indemnification, expert support, and compliance for on-premises or private cloud.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue ~$36.9M (LinkedIn estimate); Total Funding ~$256M.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Coatue, Intel, WPP, Eric Schmidt, Greycroft, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sean Parker, Sound Ventures, O’Shaughnessy Asset Management. Partners include Electronic Arts, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, WPP, HubSpot, Mercado Libre.
- **Growth Signals**: 8% YoY headcount growth (127 employees); 350M+ Stable Diffusion downloads; recently launched Brand Studio; partnerships with major entertainment and marketing firms; recognized as Fortune 50 AI Innovator and TIME's Most Influential Companies.

## Competitive Advantages
- First-mover with Stable Diffusion (sparked the open generative AI wave) and a massive developer/creator ecosystem.
- Broad modality coverage (image, video, audio, 3D) under one roof, with open-weight models that allow customization.
- Enterprise-ready platform with managed hosting, compliance, and support – differentiated from pure research labs.
- High-profile board (James Cameron, Dana Settle, Thomas Laffont) providing industry credibility and strategic connections.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening enterprise adoption through Brand Studio and self-hosted deployments.
- Expanding audio and video capabilities (Stable Audio 3.0, video tools for gaming/entertainment).
- Strengthening partnerships with large brands (e.g., WPP, EA, UMG) and embedding AI into existing creative workflows.
- Maintaining open-model philosophy while offering commercial licenses and managed services.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Described as “artist-centric” with a mission to support creators. The company is at the forefront of generative AI, offering exposure to cutting-edge research (40%+ of staff in technical/research roles). Office locations in Los Angeles and London.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Not explicitly stated; global team across 14 countries suggests remote-friendly flexibility.
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**: Work alongside world-class researchers and engineers from top tech companies (ex-Amazon, Meta, Google, Adobe). Opportunity to impact widely-used open-source models. However, employee rating on LinkedIn is 2.7/5 (31 reviews), with concerns around work-life balance (2.9) and career growth (2.7). Active job postings (5) trending down monthly but up yearly; hiring has slowed but remains steady.

## Sources
1. [stability.ai](https://stability.ai/)
2. [stability.ai/careers](https://stability.ai/careers)
3. [linkedin.com/company/stability-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/stability-ai)
4. [cbinsights.com/company/stability-ai](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/stability-ai)
5. [stability.ai/board-of-directors](https://stability.ai/board-of-directors)

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