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BFL co-founder (latent diffusion/rectified-flow author); FLUX.1 Kontext author. Exact current title not verified. source — evidence dated 2025-06
Needs the data for a model; writes the spec.
How Black Forest Labs buys data
FLUX 3 launch (2026-07-23) reported head-to-head human preference results vs Luma Ray 3.2 (93%), Runway Gen-4.5 (77%) and Grok Imagine Video; raters and methodology not disclosed. Open role 'Data Procurement & Operations Lead' (Freiburg/SF, posted around Jan 2026) will own data vendors, specialist contractors, stock media and licensors, and build 'collection and evaluation systems through internal tools, vendor partnerships'. 'MTS - Post Training' role (2026) covers RLHF/DPO/reward modeling and 'human prefs'. FLUX.1 Kontext (2025-06) introduced crowd-sourced KontextBench.
Flat 'Member of Technical Staff' research org led by founders. Teams visible in hiring: Pretraining, Post Training, VLM, Image/Video Generation, Research Infra. Data procurement/ops is being set up as its own lead role, and no named holder was found.
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