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# Member of Technical Staff, Release Engineering at Comfy

- **Company:** Comfy
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $180k–$220k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/comfy-org/bbcd32a3-27fb-40f7-94ff-8ec1166b5694

## Job description

## THE ROLE

Comfy ships multiple products across many repositories and services. Increasingly, our code isn't written by hand — it's written by agents, and our job is to keep up with what they produce. Our goal is continuous delivery: not removing humans from the loop, but removing the friction around them — so releases stop being a scheduled event and human judgment is spent on the decisions that matter, not on shepherding the pipeline.

This is not an infrastructure role in the traditional sense. You won't own the production infrastructure our software runs on. You'll build the systems above it: the CI, cross-repo release orchestration, and ephemeral environments that let a fast-moving, AI-enabled team ship connected software with confidence. As code throughput accelerates, the delivery system becomes the bottleneck. Making sure it never is — that's your mandate.

## What you'll do

- Build CI for an AI-enabled team. Build continuous integration systems that unlock development velocity for a team producing sharply accelerated code throughput.
- Orchestrate releases across many repos. Design release processes that coordinate software delivery across multiple repositories in a multi-service backend, keeping our connected components continuously integrated.
- Integrate release processes across teams. Bring multiple teams' release processes together so our connected software components ship in lockstep rather than drifting out of sync.
- Give humans and agents somewhere to test. Provide ephemeral environments that spin up per PR, so people — and the agents writing our code — can test changes against a real, isolated deployment before anything merges.
- Make quality part of the pipeline, not a meeting. Work with QA and development to inject test suites into release processes, so we ship quality at speed instead of trading one for the other.
- Platform our creatives. Provide self-serve infrastructure for internal creatives to test and generate with cutting-edge models.

You might be a good fit if you

- Have run Kubernetes and ArgoCD in production, and manage infrastructure through code.
- Have built CI/CD for complex multi-service systems, providing a solution that multiple teams depend on.
- Care about the reliability of software delivery systems, and have strong empathy for developers and internal teams who want to move fast on systems that just work.
- Have strong opinions on the future of agentic coding — and have thought about the systems needed to handle the accelerated code throughput it produces.
- Have a startup mindset: you thrive in fast-moving environments, take ownership, and love solving problems at scale.

Bonus if you have

- Provisioned and managed GPU-based compute.
- Worked on an open-source project.
- Familiarity with ComfyUI.

What this role is not

- A QA engineer writing tests and test suites.
- An SRE or on-call owner for our products once they're live. You build and own the road to production — CI, releases, test environments — not the systems that keep shipped products running.
- We already run CI, Kubernetes, and ArgoCD today. That's the floor, not the job.

## COMPENSATION

Location: San Francisco

Compensation: [$180,000–$220,000] + Equity + Benefits

## ABOUT COMFY

Comfy (https://www.comfy.org) is the AI creation engine for visual professionals who demand control over every model, every parameter, and every output. The most powerful workflow engine for visual AI.

Unlike tools that hide everything behind a prompt box, Comfy lets you connect models, processing steps, and outputs on a canvas where every decision is visible and every step is inspectable. It gives you the building blocks to create workflows nobody's imagined yet, and share them with everyone.

What started as an open-source project in 2023 now has 4 million users, 60,000+ community-built nodes, and 150,000+ daily downloads. It's used by artists, filmmakers, game studios, designers, researchers, and VFX houses, including teams at OpenAI, Netflix, Amazon Studios, Ubisoft, EA, and Tencent.

We're a small, intense team in San Francisco. Our team comes from Stability AI and Google, and many contributed to the ComfyUI ecosystem long before working here. Low ego, high ownership. We work hard and demand a lot of each other, but we have fun. Everyone here is building something meaningful that will end up being our life's work.

If this mission excites you and you view yourself as top-tier talent, your future latent self is waiting for you at Comfy.

Check out our Github https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI and blog https://blog.comfy.org. We recently raised $30M at a $500M valuation. The round was led by Craft, with participation from Pace Capital, Chemistry, TruArrow, and others.

## About Comfy

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Comfy develops the world’s leading open-source, node-based visual AI platform (ComfyUI) for building, running, and scaling generative AI workflows.
- **Entity Type**: Private (most recent round: Series C, raised in April 2026)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023 (first commit to ComfyUI on Jan 16, 2023); incorporated as Comfy Organization Inc. in 2024
- **Founders**: Yoland Y. (Co-Founder & CEO), Robin Huang (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Generative AI Infrastructure, Creative Tools, Open-Source Software
- **Target customers**: Individual creators, artists, AI researchers, SMBs, and large enterprise teams in media, gaming, advertising, and product design.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To build the operating system for generative AI — an open, modular, and powerful platform that gives creators full control over every model, parameter, and output.

## Products & Services
- **ComfyUI (Open-Source)**: The core free, node-based interface for building AI pipelines. Users connect models, nodes, and processing steps on an infinite canvas. Supports image, video, 3D, and music generation. [comfy.org](https://comfy.org/)
- **Comfy Cloud**: The full power of ComfyUI running in the cloud, accessible from any browser without local hardware requirements. [comfy.org](https://comfy.org/)
- **Comfy Desktop**: A native desktop application for running ComfyUI locally on personal hardware. [comfy.org](https://comfy.org/)
- **Comfy API**: Enterprise-grade API infrastructure for integrating ComfyUI workflows into production environments. [comfy.org](https://comfy.org/)
- **Comfy Enterprise**: Managed deployment, SSO, governance, and support for large organizations. [comfy.org](https://comfy.org/)
- **Comfy Hub**: A community marketplace featuring 60,000+ custom nodes and thousands of community-shared workflows that can be remixed. [comfy.org](https://comfy.org/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (conflicting reports list different Series amounts; Tracxn reports a Series C in April 2026 with a valuation marked as private).
- **Total Funding**: $48.8M raised over 2 rounds (per Tracxn).
  - Seed/Venture Round (Oct 2025): $17M led by Abstract and Pace Capital.
  - Series C (Apr 2026): Led by Craft Ventures, with participation from existing investors. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/comfyorg/__LucdP_H74QeuMgwthELX9dllM957ntvuLr46WNrY3gU)
- **Key Metric**: Over 60,000 custom nodes developed by the community; used by millions of creators globally. [blog.comfy.org](https://blog.comfy.org/p/comfyui-turns-2-a-journey-and-call)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Craft Ventures, Abstract, Pace Capital.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew over 435% YoY (to ~48 employees as of mid-2026). Launched multiple commercial offerings (Cloud, API, Enterprise) in a short timeframe. Active community of node developers and workflow sharers.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-Source Moat**: ComfyUI is the de facto standard node-based UI for Stable Diffusion and broader open-source generative AI. The community has built 60,000+ custom nodes, creating a network effect that is extremely difficult for closed competitors to replicate.
- **Full User Control**: Unlike closed platforms (Midjourney, DALL-E), Comfy gives every user full control over models, parameters, and all processing steps, appealing to power users and enterprises.
- **Modularity & Extensibility**: The node-based architecture allows endless customization and remixing, making it a platform, not just an app.
- **Strong Brand in AI Community**: ComfyUI is widely recognized as the go-to tool for advanced generative AI workflows among artists and engineers.

## Strategic Focus
- **Building an "OS for Gen AI"**: The company’s stated ambition is to become the operating system layer for all generative AI creation, moving beyond a UI tool to a full infrastructure platform.
- **Professional & Enterprise Features**: Developing robust workflow management, team collaboration, dependency management, and security features to scale from solo creators to enterprise teams.
- **Improved User Experience**: Making the platform more intuitive for newcomers (e.g., "App Mode") without sacrificing the power and flexibility that advanced users demand.
- **Cloud & API Monetization**: Expanding the Comfy Cloud and API offerings to capture revenue from teams and enterprises that need managed, scalable infrastructure.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a "small, intense team" that values ownership, speed, and craft. Flat structure where collaboration and execution matter more than titles. Emphasis on shipping real work and caring deeply about the open-source community.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Most roles are based in San Francisco, but remote options are available for many positions. The company runs regular team offsites to stay connected.
- **Visa Sponsorship**: Available for exceptional candidates.
- **Hiring Philosophy**: "We care about what you can do, not where you went to school." The company prefers candidates who have used ComfyUI, built with it, or contributed to the open-source project.
- **Engineering Culture**: A build-first environment where engineers work on foundational, high-impact tech powering real-world video, image, music, and app generation. Emphasis on side projects, open-source contributions, and shipping fast.
- **Team Growth**: The company has grown from a side project to a well-funded startup (~48 employees) with significant growth trajectory and new product launches.

## Sources
1. [comfy.org](https://www.comfy.org/)
2. [Blog - ComfyUI Turns 2](https://blog.comfy.org/p/comfyui-turns-2-a-journey-and-call)
3. [LinkedIn - ComfyUI](https://www.linkedin.com/company/comfyui)
4. [Tracxn - Comfy Profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/comfyorg/__LucdP_H74QeuMgwthELX9dllM957ntvuLr46WNrY3gU)
5. [Careers Page (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/comfy-org)

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