Applied Machine Learning Engineer

Ideogram • New York, NY

60d • Remote

About The Position

As Ideogram’s first Applied ML Engineer, 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, and product 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 success metrics (quality, latency, cost), and contribute to safety, monitoring, and reliability of our systems. You’ll lead 0 to 1 projects that shape Applied ML practices at Ideogram, while delivering features that create delight and real value for our users.

Requirements

• 3+ 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.

Responsibilities

• Turning frontier generative models into production features across our first-party app and API.
• Experiment quickly, build rigorous evaluations and datasets
• Partner with research, engineering, infra, and product to ship reliable and scalable ML systems.
• Fine-tune and deploy models for creative use cases (text-to-image, image-to-text, image enhancement and editing, multimodal)
• Set clear success metrics (quality, latency, cost)
• Contribute to safety, monitoring, and reliability of our systems.
• Lead 0 to 1 projects that shape Applied ML practices at Ideogram, while delivering features that create delight and real value for our users.

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.
• 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 team lunches every Tuesday and dinners every Thursday.
• 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.
• Fully remote flexibility across North America, with regular in-person team meetups and collaboration opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees