AI Media Production Tech Lead - Fully Remote Europe — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
Fully Remote & Async-Friendly: CapsLock explicitly offers a "truly and fully remote" environment, meaning you pick your workspace — a Lisbon café, a Bangkok co-working space, or a Medellín apartment. There are no stated fixed-hour requirements, and the role centers on ownership of a technical roadmap rather than clock-in/clock-out deliverables, suggesting strong async compatibility.
Timezone Flexibility: The company serves primarily North American clients, which could mean occasional overlap with US Eastern or Pacific time for sync calls with the Design Director. If you're based in Europe (as hinted), expect some late-afternoon calls. From Southeast Asia (UTC+7/+8), you may need to accommodate early morning overlap — worth clarifying at the offer stage.
Nomad Visa Fit: With European candidates in mind, popular options include Portugal's D8 Digital Nomad Visa, Spain's Digital Nomad Visa, or Georgia's Remotely from Georgia program. No salary is disclosed, so cost-of-living benchmarking is approximate — but senior AI/ML tech leads typically earn €70k–€120k+ in Europe. That stretches very well in Medellín (COL, ~$1,500/mo living costs) or Chiang Mai (~$1,200/mo), and comfortably in Lisbon (~$2,500/mo).
Travel-Relevant Perks:
- Home office equipment budget — useful for setting up anywhere
- Fitness allowance — usable at gyms worldwide in most cases
- No mention of mandatory in-person meetups, though global team events are possible
CapsLock is a global IT marketing company that pioneers unique, scalable customer acquisition solutions for B2C clients. We solve complex sales challenges across a wide range of industries, primarily for large North American partners. By integrating our expertise in Digital Marketing, IT, Design, AI-driven analytics, proprietary MarTech, and sales consulting, we deliver powerful, data-informed customer acquisition solutions.
At CapsLock, people, technology, and forward-thinking innovation lie at the heart of everything we do. Our diverse, global team, fluent in over 10 languages, thrives on open collaboration and the exchange of new ideas, pushing boundaries to ensure our clients' success.
Role Overview
We are building CapsLock's AI Media Production platform, and we're hiring the tech lead who will architect it.
We generate visuals of real products, not concepts. Every asset must match the client's actual product 1:1 — down to hardware and geometry. No artifacts, no hallucinations, no "close enough". This is a control and reproducibility problem, not a prompting problem, and it needs an engineer.
This is a greenfield build. You'll be the first engineer in this direction, working directly with the Design Director as the technical interface between creative teams and software infrastructure.
What You Will Work On
- Architect and run our AI Media Production platform: serving ComfyUI or similar engines, GPU environments, one-click UIs for non-technical teams;
- Ship modular, versioned, reproducible generative pipelines, node-based and/or code-first (e.g. diffusers);
- Develop one-click presets and use cases for image and video generation;
- Train LoRAs end-to-end: from real product photography to evaluated, production-ready models;
- Build control-first generation into every pipeline: ControlNet, IP-Adapter, inpainting, reference conditioning;
- Engineer QC into the pipeline itself: automated checks against product references, before a human ever reviews;
- Build our creative intelligence loop: encode what makes our best-performing assets work into reusable presets and styles;
- Own the technical roadmap with the Design Director; qualify new models and tools; drive adoption through enablement, not mandates.
Requirements
You don't need to meet every single requirement. If you're excellent in most of these areas and can show shipped work, we'd love to hear from you.
Must-Haves
- Shipped generative pipelines adopted and used daily by other people;
- Production-grade workflows in ComfyUI or similar technologies, or equivalent code-first experience (e.g. diffusers);
- Strong Python: automation, API integrations, custom nodes;
- LoRA training end-to-end, from dataset curation to evaluation;
- Control techniques across modalities (t2i, i2i, i2v, v2v): ControlNet, IP-Adapter, inpainting, reference conditioning;
- Deploying pipelines as internal tools;
- Enough visual literacy to set the quality bar (no design portfolio required);
- Confident English (B2+).
Nice to Have
- 3D/render-hybrid workflows: Blender or CAD renders as geometric ground truth with generated environments;
- LLM orchestration and agentic workflows: automated prompt generation, VLM-based QC;
- Experience producing visuals for performance marketing.
What We Offer
- Remote Work — a truly and fully remote environment. You choose where you are most productive and comfortable.
- Paid Vacations — generous paid vacation policy to ensure you have time to recharge.
- Unlimited Sick Days — time off as long as you need to recover, no questions asked.
- Ongoing Learning — Free Books program, workshops, conferences, and more.
- Home Office — equipment and furniture expenses covered for the best work-from-home experience.
- Physical Well-Being — medical insurance coverage plus a flexible fitness program allowance.
- Fun Stuff — there is never a shortage of fun stuff.
Frequently Asked Questions
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