About the Role
As an Applied ML Engineer at Ideogram, you will bridge research and product, turning frontier generative models into production features across our first-party app and API. You will experiment quickly, build rigorous evaluations and datasets, and partner with research, engineering, and infra teams, while working directly with clients to ship reliable and scalable ML systems. You will fine-tune and deploy models for creative use cases, set client success metrics, and contribute to the safety, monitoring, and reliability of systems. You will lead 0 to 1 projects that shape Applied ML enterprise practices at Ideogram, delivering features that create delight and real value for users.
Responsibilities
- Turn frontier generative models into production features across our first-party app and API
- Experiment quickly, build rigorous evaluations and datasets
- Partner with research, engineering, and infra teams
- Work directly with clients to ship reliable and scalable ML systems
- Fine-tune and deploy models for creative use cases (text-to-image, image-to-text, image enhancement and editing, multimodal)
- Set clear client success metrics (quality, latency, cost)
- Contribute to safety, monitoring, and reliability of systems
- Lead 0 to 1 projects that shape Applied ML enterprise practices at Ideogram
- Deliver features that create delight and real value for users
- Curate, label, and clean datasets
- Design evaluation corpora and failure-mode analyses
Requirements
- 1+ years of building and shipping ML products
- Write backend code in Python/ PyTorch/ Jax
- Design benchmarks and evaluation metrics
- Run error analyses
- Debug numerical stability across data, training, and inference
- Take ML features from idea to evaluation to production with measurable gains (quality, latency, or cost)
- Collaborate with the product team to define success criteria and iterate quickly and pragmatically
- Familiarity with modern deep learning such as transformers, diffusion, and encoders
- Bring ownership, urgency, curiosity, and learn fast in a startup setting
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Skills
- Python
- PyTorch
- Jax
- Transformers
- Diffusion Models
- Text-to-image generation
- Image-to-text generation
- Image enhancement
- Image editing
- Multimodal AI
Location
- Toronto
- NYC
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 1+ years of experience
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive compensation and equity
Benefits
- 4 weeks of vacation
- Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage
- RRSP/401(k) with employer match up to 4%
- Top-of-the-line tools and tech
- Autonomy to explore and experiment
- Access to compute/resources
- Culture of learning and growth
- Mentorship
About the Company
- Ideogram's mission is to make world-class design accessible to everyone, multiplying human creativity.
- We build proprietary generative media models and AI native creative workflows, tackling unsolved challenges in graphic design.
- Our team includes builders with a track record of technology breakthroughs including early research in Diffusion Models, Google’s Imagen, and Imagen Video.
- We care about design, taste, and craft as much as research and engineering – shipping experiences that creatives actually love.
- We’ve raised nearly $100M, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures.
- Headquartered in Toronto with a growing team in NYC, we're scaling fast, aiming to triple over the next year.
- We're a flat team with a culture of high ownership, collaboration, and mentorship.
- We’re a team of exceptionally talented, curious builders who love solving tough problems and turning bold ideas into reality.
- We move fast, collaborate deeply, and operate without unnecessary hierarchy, because we believe the best ideas can come from anyone.
- Everyone at Ideogram rolls up their sleeves to make our products and our customers successful.
- We thrive on curiosity, creativity, and shared ownership.
- We believe that small, dedicated teams working together with trust and purpose can move faster, think bigger, and create amazing things.
Equal Opportunity
- Ideogram is committed to welcoming everyone — regardless of gender identity, orientation, or expression.
- Our mission is to create belonging and remove barriers so everyone can create boldly.
