ML Open Source Lead

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/.

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 ...