About the role
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.
Explore Ideogram 4.0, Enterprise, API, Open Source, Character and Custom Models blog posts, and try Ideogram at ideogram.ai.
About the Role
The Senior Open-Source ML Lead serves as a strategic bridge between Ideogram's internal research teams and the broader AI ecosystem. This person will own the vision for turning foundational research into high-quality, production-grade public tooling, while building and stewarding a thriving developer community around our work.
Responsibilities
- Open-Source Strategy: Own and drive the vision for releasing open model weights, methodologies, and code, in close partnership with research and leadership.
- Community Leadership: Oversee and scale our GitHub and Hugging Face presence, setting standards for repository quality, documentation, and contributor experience.
- Advocacy & Outreach: Champion open science by building open-source demos (e.g., implementing LoRA fine-tuning for our models), publishing technical blog posts, engaging deeply with the community, and representing Ideogram at conferences and industry events.