Ideogram · 2 months ago
Machine Learning Engineer, Applied AI
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid Level
3+ years expIdeogram is a company focused on making design accessible through innovative AI solutions. They are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to lead applied AI initiatives, bridging research and product to develop and deploy generative models into production features.
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
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
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.
Steps from Union Station and the PATH, with daily in-office lunches and dinners.
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.
A culture of learning and growth, where curiosity is encouraged and mentorship is part of the journey.
Company
Ideogram
Ideogram is an artificial intelligence startup that provides generative text-to-image technology.
11-50 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$96.46MKey Investors
Andreessen Horowitz
2024-02-28Series A· $80M
2023-08-22Seed· $16.46M
Leadership Team
Mohmmad Norouzi
Chief Executive Officer
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