Research Engineer/Research Scientist Internship, Ideogram
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Generative media tools
Open for applications
Generative media tools
21-100 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make professional-quality design accessible to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Currently pursuing a PhD or Master’s in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Graphics, Natural Language Processing, or a related field (exceptional undergraduates considered)
- Deep learning fundamentals in generative models; familiarity with Transformers and diffusion models
- Ability to read research papers, translate ideas into high-quality code, and communicate results clearly to peers
- Strong Python skills and proficiency in a major DL framework (JAX preferred; PyTorch experience welcome with willingness to learn JAX)
- Interest in the creative industry and image generation for design and passion for making research land in a real product
- Prior publications, impactful open-source contributions, or strong project write-ups demonstrating research experience
What the job involves
- As a Research Engineer / Research Scientist Intern (Summer 2026), you’ll join the small team that built Ideogram’s foundation models
- You’ll push the frontier of visual generative models and ship ideas that reach millions of creators
- You’ll work alongside researchers who trained our world-class text-to-image model and pushed the state of the art in image captioning, diffusion conditioning beyond text, and layout and typography
Our take
With text-to-image software well and truly in the public conscience, Ideogram has launched a platform to support creativity, while capitalising on the popularity of AI image creation services.
Its generative AI platform requires a prompt and rendering style (think anime, fantasy, or cinematic) from which it creates a high quality image for the user. As with other platforms of its type, the images tend to be slightly flawed but interesting, and it appears that almost anything can be created.
Of course, there is a downside to launching into a market that is under such a strong spotlight, especially as many artists raise concerns over their work being used to train image creation AI without their consent. For its part, Ideogram claims to operate with a "high standard for trust and safety", utilizing a $22.3M CAD funding round to grow its team and footprint.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2024
$80m
SERIES A
Aug 2023
$16.5m
SEED
Total funding: $96.5m
Company HQ
Financial District, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Mohammad Norouzi
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google for 7 years.
William Chan
(Co-Founder & CTO)Spent 7 years at Google, ultimately as a Google Brain Staff Research Scientist.
Chitwan Saharia
(Co-Founder)Spent 3 years at Google, ultimately as a Senior Research Scientist. Prior to this, was a Research Assistant at the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms.
Jonathan Ho
(Co-Founder)Previously a Research Scientist for Google and for OpenAI.
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