Backend Engineer, Ideogram
Generative media tools
Open for applications
Generative media tools
1-20 employees
Open for applications
1-20 employees
Company mission
To help people become more creative through generative AI.
Role
Who you are
- As a Backend Engineer, you have expertise in building, debugging, and optimizing software in large-scale, high-volume environments
- 5+ years developing and shipping large scale backend systems (Node.js or Python preferred)
- Experience in writing scalable and reliable code, e.g., strong data structure and algorithm fundamentals, experience with gRPC, Protobufs, MapReduce, an obsession for documentation
- Familiarity with GCP or similar cloud technology
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Self-starter - able to come up to speed on complex, difficult concepts with minimal assistance
- Experience communicating complex technical issues to technical and non technical team members
- Excitement about generative AI technology and its impact on the creative economy
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
Desirable
- Experience in developing machine learning models in JAX, PyTorch, and TensorFlow
- Track record in machine learning innovation (e.g. Transformer, VAE, Denoising Diffusion models), or familiarity with such methods and experience in implementing them from scratch
- Experience in low-level machine learning optimization, e.g., writing CUDA kernel code
What the job involves
- As a Backend Engineer, you have expertise in building, debugging, and optimizing software in large-scale, high-volume environments
- You will be a key participant in defining the platform roadmap and product strategy which will ultimately transform and expand the creative economy
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 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 $22.3 million 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
St. Lawrence, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Mohammad Norouzi
(Co-founder & CEO)Was a 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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