Machine Learning Open Source Lead, Ideogram
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Generative media tools
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Generative media tools
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
Plus equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make professional-quality design accessible to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Advanced degree (MS or PhD preferred) or equivalent extensive research experience in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or a related field
- Proven track record of leading open-source ML projects with meaningful community adoption or impact
- Deep, hands-on expertise in Python and ML research libraries such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow
- Strong command of LLMs and modern deep learning architectures (e.g., Transformers, diffusion models, RLHF)
- History of publishing research and/or maintaining widely-used open-source projects in ML, computer vision, or NLP
- Established presence in the ML/open-source community (e.g., recognized contributions, talks, publications, or a strong following on relevant platforms)
- Exceptional communicator, comfortable representing the company externally and building relationships with researchers, engineers, and the broader community
- Genuine passion for open-source work and community-driven research and tooling
- Self-directed and comfortable operating with significant autonomy, quickly picking up new tools and driving initiatives from ambiguity to execution
What the job involves
- The Senior Open-Source ML Lead serves as a strategic bridge between Ideogram's internal research teams and the broader AI ecosystem
- This person will own the vision for turning foundational research into high-quality, production-grade public tooling, while building and stewarding a thriving developer community around our work
- Open-Source Strategy: Own and drive the vision for releasing open model weights, methodologies, and code, in close partnership with research and leadership
- Community Leadership: Oversee and scale our GitHub and Hugging Face presence, setting standards for repository quality, documentation, and contributor experience
- Advocacy & Outreach: Champion open science by building open-source demos (e.g., implementing LoRA fine-tuning for our models), publishing technical blog posts, engaging deeply with the community, and representing Ideogram at conferences and industry events
- Ecosystem Collaboration: Build and manage relationships with model providers, internal engineers, and external contributors to advance AI accessibility and Ideogram's standing in the open-source ecosystem
- Research-to-Release: Lead the conversion of internal, proprietary implementations into polished, reproducible open-source code, setting the bar for quality and usability across the team
- Mentorship & Influence: Guide internal engineers and researchers on open-source best practices, and help shape Ideogram's broader open-source strategy and roadmap
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 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
- 📍 Toronto HQ perks: Steps from Union Station and the PATH, with daily in-office lunches and dinners
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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