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Ideogram · 8 hours ago

Machine Learning Engineer, Applied AI

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid Level

3+ years exp

Ideogram is a company dedicated to making world-class design accessible through AI and generative media models. They are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to lead applied AI initiatives, bridging research and product to develop scalable ML systems and features for their app and API.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AIInformation TechnologyInternet

Responsibilities

You’ll bridge research and product, turning frontier generative models into production features across our first-party app and API

You’ll experiment quickly, build rigorous evaluations and datasets, and partner with research, engineering, infra, and product to ship reliable and scalable ML systems

You’ll fine-tune and deploy models for creative use cases (text-to-image, image-to-text, image enhancement and editing, multimodal), set clear success metrics (quality, latency, cost), and contribute to safety, monitoring, and reliability of our systems

You’ll lead 0 to 1 projects that shape Applied AI practices at Ideogram, while delivering features that create delight and real value for our users

Qualification

Machine Learning productsPythonPyTorchDeep learningJaxData evaluationDataset curationCuriosityCollaborationOwnership

Required

3+ years of building and shipping ML products

You write backend code in Python/ PyTorch/ Jax

You design benchmarks and evaluation metrics, run error analyses, and debug numerical stability across data, training, and inference

You've taken ML features from idea to evaluation to production with measurable gains (quality, latency, or cost)

You collaborate with the product team to define success criteria and iterate quickly and pragmatically

You're comfortable curating, labeling, and cleaning datasets, and designing evaluation corpora and failure-mode analyses

You're familiar with modern deep learning such as transformers, diffusion, and encoders

You bring ownership, urgency, curiosity, and learn fast in a startup setting

Benefits

Competitive compensation and equity designed to recognize the value and impact of your contributions to Ideogram’s success.

4 weeks of vacation to recharge and explore.

Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage starting on day one.

RRSP/401(k) with employer match up to 4% to invest in your future from the moment you join.

Top-of-the-line tools and tech to fuel your creativity and productivity.

Toronto HQ perks: Steps from Union Station and the PATH, with team lunches every Tuesday and dinners every Thursday.

Autonomy to explore and experiment — whether you’re testing new ideas, running large-scale experiments, or diving into research, you’ll have access to compute/resources you need when there’s a clear business or creative use case. We encourage curiosity and bold thinking.

A culture of learning and growth, where curiosity is encouraged and mentorship is part of the journey.

Fully remote flexibility across North America, with regular in-person team meetups and collaboration opportunities.