Software Engineer, Ideogram
ML Infrastructure
+ Equity
Office located in Union Station, ON
Generative media tools
Be an early applicant
Generative media tools
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
Office located in Union Station, ON
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make professional-quality design accessible to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for someone who combines deep systems expertise with a builder's mindset, strong technical ownership, and the ability to move fast in an evolving AI landscape
- 1-4 years developing and shipping large-scale production infrastructure
- Experience designing large, highly available distributed systems with Kubernetes/GCP, and GPU/TPU workloads on those clusters
- Experience in deploying, supporting, and troubleshooting in complex Linux-based computing environments
- Experience in worker scaling for training or inference workloads
- Fundamental knowledge in ML models and how they run on GPUs
- Deep sense of ownership - proactively identifies opportunities, suggests improvements, and acts on them
- The grit and adaptability to solve complex technical challenges that evolve day to day
- Can explain technical concepts to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
- Pushes for quality through constructive code review and collaboration
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent practical experience
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure at Ideogram, you'll build the systems that power training and serving for our generative AI models at scale
- You'll work across the stack, from designing distributed training infrastructure to optimizing inference pipelines that serve millions of users, with a relentless focus on reliability, speed, and efficiency
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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