Ideogram

Ideogram

ML Open Source Lead

U.S

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 12 days ago
PythonGitMachine LearningDeep LearningTensorFlowPyTorchNLPComputer VisionLLMsAccessibilityResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoringPublic Speaking

About the role

  • The open-source ML leader serves as a bridge between Ideogram's internal research teams and the broader AI ecosystem.
  • This person will be tasked with turning foundational research into usable, high-quality public tooling, while actively growing and maintaining a healthy developer community.

Responsibilities

  • Advocacy & Outreach: Champion open science by building open source demos (e.g. implementing lora fine-tuning for our models), writing technical blogs, answering questions from the community, and presenting at conferences.
  • Ecosystem Collaboration: Partner with model providers, internal engineers, and external contributors to push AI accessibility forward.
  • We move fast, collaborate deeply, and operate without unnecessary hierarchy, because we believe the best ideas can come from anyone.
  • We believe that small, dedicated teams working together with trust and purpose can move faster, think bigger, and create amazing things.
  • We build proprietary generative media models and AI native creative workflows, tackling unsolved challenges in graphic design.

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on experience in Python and ML research libraries such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow

Compensation

  • 💸Competitive compensation and equity designed to recognize the value and impact of your contributions to Ideogram's success.

Benefits

  • 💸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.
  • 📍 Toronto HQ perks: Steps from Union Station and the PATH, with daily in-office lunches and dinners.
  • 🌱 A culture of learning and growth, where curiosity is encouraged and mentorship is part of the journey.
  • Define and execute a vision for releasing open model weights, methodologies, and code.
  • Advanced degree or equivalent research experience in Machine Learning or Deep Learning, or a related field
  • Familiarity with LLMs and modern deep learning architectures (e.g., Transformers, diffusion models, reinforcement learning with human feedback)
  • Experience publishing research or working on open-source projects in ML, computer vision, or NLP

Company info

  • What We're Looking For:
  • Everyone at Ideogram rolls up their sleeves to make our products and our customers successful.
  • Our mission is to create belonging and remove barriers so everyone can create boldly.
  • Ideogram's mission is to make world-class design accessible to everyone, multiplying human creativity.

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