Applied Machine Learning
Ideogram· Machine Learning
TorontoFull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Applied ML Engineer at Ideogram bridging research and product to turn frontier generative models into production features for the first-party app and API; responsible for experiments, evaluations, datasets, model fine-tuning, deployment, and contributing to safety, monitoring, and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Turn 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 clients 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 client success metrics (quality, latency, cost)
- Contribute to safety, monitoring, and reliability of systems
- Lead 0 to 1 projects that shape Applied ML enterprise practices at Ideogram
- Deliver features that create delight and real value for users
Qualifications
- 1+ years of building and shipping ML products
- Backend code writing in Python/PyTorch/Jax
- Design benchmarks and evaluation metrics, run error analyses, debug numerical stability across data, training, and inference
- Experience taking ML features from idea to evaluation to production with measurable gains (quality, latency, or cost)
- Collaborate with product team to define success criteria and iterate quickly
- Comfort with curating, labeling, and cleaning datasets, and designing evaluation corpora and failure-mode analyses
- Familiarity with modern deep learning such as transformers, diffusion, and encoders
- Ownership, urgency, curiosity, and fast learning in a startup setting
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Skills
Required:Backend developmentEvaluation and benchmarkingDataset curation and labelingMultimodal ML conceptsCross-functional collaborationCommunication
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity
- 4 weeks of vacation
- Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage starting day one
- RRSP/401(k) with employer match up to 4%
- Top-of-the-line tools and tech
- Toronto HQ perks: steps from Union Station and PATH, daily in-office lunches and dinners
- Autonomy to explore and experiment with compute/resources when there is a clear business or creative use case
- Culture of learning and growth with mentorship
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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