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Job DescriptionThe Senior Applied Diffusion Engineer will lead the development of controllable image generation systems focused on fashion, styling, and visual consistency. This role will design and productionise LoRA pipelines, outfit generation systems, virtual styling workflows, and advanced diffusion-based capabilities powering both internal creative tooling and future consumer-facing experiences.
We are building an internal AI fashion generation platform to accelerate creative production, styling workflows, and next-generation customer experiences. The platform is centered around state-of-the-art diffusion models, controllable generation pipelines, and proprietary fashion data.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, train, and optimise LoRA and fine-tuning pipelines for fashion-specific generation tasks.
- Develop controllable image generation systems using Flux, SDXL, ControlNet, IP-Adapter, and related tooling.
- Build production-ready ComfyUI workflows and custom nodes.
- Create outfit generation and visual styling pipelines grounded in ASOS product and styling data.
- Improve generation consistency, realism, garment fidelity, and brand alignment.
- Collaborate with Studios, Design, Marketing, and Product teams to operationalise GenAI workflows.
- Develop evaluation frameworks for image quality, style accuracy, and model performance.
- Work closely with platform engineers to optimise inference performance and GPU utilisation.
- Research and prototype new approaches in multimodal AI, and fashion generation
- Strong experience with PyTorch and diffusion model ecosystems.
- Hands-on experience training LoRAs, DreamBooth models, or fine-tuning large vision models.
- Experience with Flux, Stable Diffusion XL, Diffusers, ComfyUI, ControlNet, and IP-Adapter.
- Strong understanding of computer vision concepts including segmentation, pose estimation, and embeddings.
- Experience building production ML systems and inference pipelines.
- Strong Python engineering skills.
- Experience with GPU optimisation, CUDA fundamentals, TensorRT, or ONNX is advantageous.
- Experience in fashion, e-commerce, creative tooling, gaming avatars, or virtual try-on is highly desirable.
BeneFITS’
- Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
- Employee sample sales
- 25 days paid annual leave + an extra celebration day for a special moment
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Private medical care scheme
- Flexible benefits allowance - which you can choose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits
- Opportunity for personalised learning and in-the-moment experiences that enable you to thrive and excel in your role
Skills Required
- Strong experience with PyTorch and diffusion model ecosystems.
- Hands-on experience training LoRAs, DreamBooth models, or fine-tuning large vision models.
- Experience with Flux, Stable Diffusion XL, Diffusers, ComfyUI, ControlNet, and IP-Adapter.
- Strong understanding of computer vision concepts including segmentation, pose estimation, and embeddings.
- Experience building production ML systems and inference pipelines.
- Strong Python engineering skills.
- Experience with GPU optimisation, CUDA fundamentals, TensorRT, or ONNX.
- Experience in fashion, e-commerce, creative tooling, gaming avatars, or virtual try-on.
ASOS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ASOS and has not been reviewed or approved by ASOS.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Feedback suggests perks like a sizable, shareable product discount, access to sample sales, free gym access, and on-site amenities are valued. Such lifestyle-oriented benefits are frequently highlighted as standout aspects of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Feedback suggests employees benefit from substantial annual leave with bank holidays and an extra celebratory or birthday day off, with summer early finishes referenced in some contexts. This breadth of time-off options supports work-life balance.
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Healthcare Strength — Feedback suggests access to a private medical care scheme is a core part of the package. This contributes to a perception of strong healthcare support.
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We exist to give people the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you’re free to be your true self without judgment, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions. Whatever your role, asos will encourage you to be you, fulfilling your creative potential with our global reach. Push boundaries, and challenge expectations. We’re determined to succeed, so we’ll trust you to deliver. Help drive our journey to becoming the global fashion destination for 20-somethings At ASOS our 3,000+ employees are immersed in the creative worlds and have a truly entrepreneurial attitude. Our ASOSers are authentic, brave, creative and disciplined to the core and find ways to blend our passion for fashion with cutting edge technology. Sound up your street? Join us.
