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# Applied Machine Learning at Ideogram

- **Company:** Ideogram
- **Location:** Toronto, Canada
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ideogram/66610ff2-a888-44cf-b6cb-fd0116949697

## Job description

## ABOUT IDEOGRAM

Ideogram’s mission is to make world-class design accessible to everyone, multiplying human creativity. We build proprietary generative media models and AI native creative workflows, tackling unsolved challenges in graphic design. Our team includes builders with a track record of technology breakthroughs including early research in Diffusion Models, Google’s Imagen, and Imagen Video. We care about design, taste, and craft as much as research and engineering – shipping experiences that creatives actually love.

We’ve raised nearly $100M, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. Headquartered in Toronto with a growing team in NYC, we're scaling fast, aiming to triple over the next year. We're a flat team with a culture of high ownership, collaboration, and mentorship.

Try Ideogram at ideogram.ai http://ideogram.ai, and check out the following links to learn more about our work: Ideogram 4.0 https://ideogram.ai/models/4.0/, Enterprise https://ideogram.ai/enterprise/, and Custom Models https://ideogram.ai/features/custom-models/.

The Opportunity

As an Applied ML Engineer at Ideogram, 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, while working directly/frequently with clients 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 client success metrics (quality, latency, cost), and contribute to safety, monitoring, and reliability of systems. You’ll lead 0 to 1 projects that shape Applied ML enterprise practices at Ideogram, while delivering features that create delight and real value for our users.

## What We’re Looking For

- 1+ 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
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills

## OUR CULTURE

We’re a team of exceptionally talented, curious builders who love solving tough problems and turning bold ideas into reality. We move fast, collaborate deeply, and operate without unnecessary hierarchy, because we believe the best ideas can come from anyone.

Everyone at Ideogram rolls up their sleeves to make our products and our customers successful. We thrive on curiosity, creativity, and shared ownership. We believe that small, dedicated teams working together with trust and purpose can move faster, think bigger, and create amazing things.

Ideogram is committed to welcoming everyone — regardless of gender identity, orientation, or expression. Our mission is to create belonging and remove barriers so everyone can create boldly.

## WHAT WE OFFER

💸Competitive compensation and equity designed to recognize the value and impact of your contributions to Ideogram’s success. 🌴 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. 🔍 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. We encourage curiosity and bold thinking. 🌱 A culture of learning and growth, where curiosity is encouraged and mentorship is part of the journey.

## About Ideogram

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ideogram develops open-source AI tools for visual intelligence, enabling users to generate, edit, and scale images with precise text rendering and style control.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Mohammad Norouzi (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Graphic Design, Visual Intelligence
- **Target customers**: B2B (enterprise teams, developers, product teams), B2C (creative professionals, designers, marketers)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To help people become more creative" by making creative expression more accessible, fun, and efficient through state-of-the-art AI tools [docs.ideogram.ai](https://docs.ideogram.ai/about-ideogram/company).

## Products & Services
- **Ideogram 4.0 (Model)**: An open-source visual intelligence model with advanced text rendering, prompt alignment, and editing capabilities. Available via API, MCP (for agents), and a direct app. [ideogram.ai](https://ideogram.ai/)
- **Ideogram API**: Enables product teams and developers to integrate image generation, editing, upscaling, and visual workflows into their own applications.
- **Ideogram App**: A hands-on creation surface for teams to generate, retouch, remix, and scale visual assets directly.
- **Brand Custom Models**: Enterprise offering for teams needing custom, branded models that maintain visual identity at scale.
- **Key Features**: Magic Fill, Remove Background, Extend composition, Reframe aspect ratios, Upscale, Layerize Text, and Prompt Editing.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$96.5M** (Series A: $80M led by Andreessen Horowitz in Feb 2024; Seed: $16.5M led by Index Ventures and a16z in Aug 2023) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/ideogram-ai)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, SV Angel, Pear VC, and 15+ others [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/ideogram-ai)
- **Growth Signals**: Launched Ideogram 4.0 as an open-weight model; strong technical team with alumni from Google (5), Meta (2), Databricks (2), and Amazon (2); operates in 9 countries including US, India, Indonesia, Finland; monthly web traffic of ~3M visits; 16,000+ LinkedIn followers with +1.4% monthly growth [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ideogram-ai)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-source leadership**: Ideogram 4.0 is fully open-weight, allowing developers to run, tune, and build on the model — a rare move in the generative AI space.
- **Superior text rendering**: The model is built for "crystal-clear type" inside compositions, solving a critical pain point for designers and marketers that competitors (e.g., Midjourney, DALL-E) historically struggle with.
- **End-to-end visual workflow**: From generation to editing (Magic Fill, Remove Background, Extend, Reframe, Upscale) — all in one platform, reducing dependency on multiple tools.
- **Enterprise-grade privacy and scale**: Offers private workflows, custom branded models, and production support for sensitive work at high volume.

## Strategic Focus
- **Democratizing visual intelligence**: Making image generation "dependable" for professional use — better typography, stronger prompt alignment, cleaner editing, and output designers can actually use [ideogram.ai](https://ideogram.ai/).
- **Multi-surface distribution**: Delivering the same model via API (for product workflows), MCP (for agents), and App (for direct creation), targeting different user segments.
- **Open-source ecosystem**: By open-sourcing the model, Ideogram aims to build a community of developers and enterprises that customize and integrate the technology, creating a moat around adoption.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven to "make creative expression more accessible" — a focus on creativity with a high standard for trust and safety [docs.ideogram.ai](https://docs.ideogram.ai/about-ideogram/company).
- **Work model**: Office presence in Toronto (HQ) and New York City; open positions include remote-friendly roles (e.g., Customer Support Specialist).
- **Team & growth**: Small but growing team of ~53 employees (monthly headcount growth of +1.5%). Strong engineering culture with 39% of staff in technical roles. Active hiring with 17 job postings.
- **Notable perks**: Direct access to cutting-edge AI research and development; opportunity to shape the future of visual AI tools; work with a team with deep expertise from top tech companies (Google, Meta, Databricks).
- **Open roles**: Enterprise Account Executive, Research Engineer/Scientist (Post-training & Pre-training), Technical Brand Designer, Full Stack Product Engineer, Customer Support Specialist [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ideogram).

## Sources
1. [ideogram.ai](https://ideogram.ai/)
2. [docs.ideogram.ai - Company Page](https://docs.ideogram.ai/about-ideogram/company)
3. [linkedin.com - Ideogram](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ideogram-ai)
4. [cbinsights.com - Ideogram Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/ideogram-ai)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com - Ideogram Careers](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ideogram)

## Other roles at Ideogram

- [Founding Marketer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-marketer-ideogram-toronto-56ze4bkvx3qt) — Toronto, Canada
- [Enterprise Account Executive](https://feeny.ai/job/enterprise-account-executive-ideogram-new-york-ws3ebhjfsv7x) — New York, NY