Software Engineer, ComfyUI Desktop

ComfyUI

$120K — $150K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience building and shipping applications using Electron or Tauri
  • Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and native API navigation
  • In-depth knowledge of desktop application lifecycle, including packaging, signing, and distribution
  • Strong attention to user experience and detail-oriented design
  • Familiarity with Python packaging and environment management tools like conda and venv
  • Bonus: Experience with ComfyUI or other node-based creative tools

Responsibilities

  • Build a seamless installation and onboarding experience for ComfyUI users
  • Design systems for backing up user files across environments
  • Implement management systems for multiple ComfyUI environments
  • Collaborate with team members to enhance user experience
  • Develop features that streamline complex tool usability for end-users

Benefits

  • Work within a flat organizational structure that values cultural fit and execution
  • Join a well-funded team with backgrounds from Stability AI and Google
  • Opportunity to contribute to an evolving open-source project used by a vibrant community
  • Engage in a meaningful mission that combines creativity and technology
  • Enjoy a fun work environment focused on impact and quality of work
Full Job Description
The Role

You will be a core contributor to ComfyUI Desktop, the native application that brings one of the most popular open source AI projects to millions of users on Windows, and macOS.

Your mission is to make that first moment magical. When someone downloads ComfyUI, you're the reason it just works. You'll build the native experience that transforms a powerful but complex tool into something that feels effortless.

Example projects include...
  • Building a seamless installation and onboarding experience that handles Python environments, model management, and GPU detection across platforms
  • Designing a system to back-up a user's files (models, custom nodes) to be accessible from any environment
  • Implementing a way to manage multiple ComfyUI environments

You might be a fit if...
  • Experience building and shipping Electron or Tauri applications at scale
  • Strong with TypeScript/JavaScript and comfortable navigating native APIs when needed
  • Deep understanding of desktop application lifecycle: packaging, signing, distribution, and updates across Windows/macOS/Linux
  • Care deeply about user experience polish - the small details that make software feel right
  • Familiarity with Python packaging/environment management (conda, venv, pyinstaller)
  • Bonus: Experience with ComfyUI or other node-based creative tools


What is ComfyUI?

ComfyUI is the world's leading visual AI platform - an open, modular system where anyone can build, customize, and automate AI workflows with precision and full control.

Unlike most AI tools that hide their inner workings behind a simple prompt box, ComfyUI gives professionals the freedom to design their own pipelines - connecting models, tools, and logic visually like building blocks.

It's used by artists, filmmakers, video game creators, designers, researchers, VFX houses, and among others, teams at OpenAI, Netflix, Amazon Studios, Ubisoft, EA, and Tencent - all who want to go beyond presets and truly shape how AI creates.

ComfyUI empowers those who were not trained with the power of the brush to also be a painter, and those who are, to be a maestro.
  • Built for users who value transparency and control Infinitely extensible - thousands of community-made nodes and integrations
  • Scales from creative experimentation to production automation
  • Open-source, used by millions, and backed by one of the most active AI communities online
  • Evolving to democratize visual AI creation: empowering everyone from hobbyists to studios, storytellers, and enterprises to be more productive and creative than ever before

ComfyUI isn't just another AI app. It's aiming to become the operating system for visual generative AI , the foundation on which the next generation of creative tools are being built.

An creative's show case of how Comfy is adopted in their work

About Us

We are a small, intense, and well-funded team in San Francisco who push ComfyUI and its ecosystem forward. Our team comes from Stability AI and Google and many contributed to the ComfyUI ecosystem way before working here.

Our organization is flat and there is no hierarchy, only categories: dev, arts, prod, ops, etc (and no, there is no one here with the title of Member of Technical Staff, it's long and silly for a job title).

The only thing that matters is the quality of your cultural fit and execution. We work hard and demand a lot of each other. But we have fun: everyone is here to make something meaningful that will end up being our life's work. If this mission excites you and you view yourself as a top-tier talent, your future latent self is waiting for you at Comfy.

Check out our Github and blog for what we've been working on. Our investors include Pace Capital, Chemistry, Abstract Venture, and Guillermo Rauch.

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