Senior AI Image Generation Engineer

6 days ago


San Francisco, California, United States Cantina Full time
About Cantina

Cantina is a pioneering social platform that combines advanced AI technology with innovative user experiences. Our mission is to empower creators and revolutionize human interactions online.


The Role: Senior ML Engineer, Images Team

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on our AI Image Generation team, you will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and refining the image and video AI models that power our lifelike AI bots. Your expertise in machine learning and scalable infrastructure will be instrumental in developing innovative features that transform online connections and creativity.


About the Imagine Team

The Imagine Team at Cantina is responsible for all generative image, video, and machine vision services. We have developed a stable diffusion-based image generation pipeline that creates photo-realistic, consistent characters. Our team strives to continuously improve quality, character consistency, responsiveness to prompting, and incorporation of custom looks and appearance traits.


Requirements and Qualifications
  • Demonstrated interest in AI image generation through personal and professional projects.
  • Deep technical foundation in machine learning, specifically in image synthesis.
  • 2+ years of experience building production-grade machine learning models in industry and/or academic research settings.
  • Strong programming skills in Python and deploying Python-based services.
  • Familiarity with tools and frameworks involved in AI image generation, including Stable Diffusion, Visual Transformers (ViT), Tensorflow, PyTorch, Diffusers, ComfyUI, Segment Anything (SAM), Kohya-ss, CodeFormer, and GFPGAN.
  • Experience building end-to-end scalable ML infrastructure with on-premise or cloud platforms, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Azure.
  • Strong teamwork skills, including communication and collaboration with both technical and non-technical team members.

Salary and Benefits

We offer a competitive salary range of $175,000-$250,000 based on location, skills, experience, and job scope. Benefits include 99% premium coverage for medical, vision, and dental insurance, a monthly stipend of $500, 15 PTO days, 9 sick days, 13 paid holidays, and 401(K) eligibility from day one.



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