# Machine Learning Engineer

**Company:** [krea.ai](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/krea.ai)
**Location:** San Francisco
**Work mode:** On-site
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Category:** Software
**Department:** Other
**Listed:** 2026-03-30

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## Job description

### **About Krea**

At Krea, we are building next-generation AI creative tools.

We're dedicated to making AI intuitive and controllable for creatives - our mission is to build tools that empower human creativity, not replace it. We believe AI is a new medium that allows us to express ourselves through various formats - text, images, video, sound, and even 3D. We're building better, smarter, and more controllable tools to harness this medium. We recently took this a step forward with the [launch of Krea 2](https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-image-model), our first foundation model, built completely from scratch for aesthetic diversity and stylistic control, and with [Krea 3](https://www.krea.ai/blog/introducing-krea-3) - our new image editing model.

We've raised over $83M and are backed by world-class investors such as a16z, Bain Capital, and Abstract. We work full-time and in-person at our waterfront office in San Francisco. We care about creativity: our team includes musicians, designers, visual artists, and engineers.

### **This role**

We're looking for a machine learning engineers who can work on large-scale image and video models training experiments.

  

### **What you'll do**

-   Train foundation diffusion models for image and video generation
    
-   Train controllability modules such as IPAdapters or ControlNets
    
-   Develop novel research techniques and put them into production
    
-   Conducting large-scale experiments on high-performance computing clusters, optimizing data pipelines for massive image datasets
    

  

### **What we're looking for**

-   Proven track record in working with image or video models at scale (publications or open-source contributions a plus)
    
-   Strong background in deep learning frameworks and distributed training paradigms
    
-   Ability to iterate rapidly, and propose creative research directions
    

### **What we offer**

-   **Team**: Work alongside a world-class team building the future of AI creative tooling
    
-   **Impact**: Significant scope and company-wide impact
    
-   **Competitive compensation**: generous salary & equity packages
    
-   **Health & wellness**: 100% health & 99% dental/vision insurance premiums covered for employees, health FSA accounts, & long-term disability coverage
    
-   **Time off**: Flexible PTO policy
    
-   **Financial planning**: 401k with a 4% company-sponsored match
    
-   **Meals in the office**: breakfast, lunch, dinner - you name it, we'll cover it
    
-   **Transit**: Ubers covered to & from the office
    
-   **Sponsorship**: We're open to sponsoring international visas where we can (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H-1B, O-1, E-3).
    
-   And more!
    

_Please note the above benefits & perks are for full-time employees_

## Other open roles at krea.ai

- [Growth Engineer](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/krea.ai/growth-engineer-159a0d40-dc48-4c4f-b67b-17909f2f3f7a) — San Francisco
- [Influencer Marketing Lead](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/krea.ai/influencer-marketing-lead-3c8648b6-8883-4fd5-bdb7-3633f80045a6) — San Francisco
- [Motion Designer](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/krea.ai/motion-designer-a18b2fa2-e435-478f-9554-ed2e418987d6) — San Francisco
- [Creative](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/krea.ai/creative-generalist-d22ed3a1-21ee-4010-b5fe-8d0cafde1497) — San Francisco
- [ML Researcher - Posttraining](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/krea.ai/ml-researcher-posttraining-04d2889b-3cd6-498c-9653-0cd2e2d505fe) — San Francisco

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