Ideogram’s mission is to help people become more creative. Our thesis is that everyone has an innate desire to create. We are developing state-of-the-art AI tools that will make creative expression more accessible and efficient. We are pushing the limits of what’s possible with AI, with a focus on creativity and a high standard for trust and safety. Our headquarters is in downtown Toronto, and we have a small presence in NYC. Read Ideogram 2.0 blog post and check out our text to image product at ideogram.ai to get a glimpse of what we're building.
About The Role
The DevOps Lead will manage Ideogram's cloud infrastructure for product, ML training, and ML inference. This includes a tight orchestration of resources on GCP and Cloudflare, in particular the design of Ideogram's networking infrastructure to maximize security.
What We’re Looking For
Expertise with Terraform, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and management of ML accelerator fleets
Expertise in cloud security and organization security, and identity and access management
Expertise with Google Cloud Platform
Python, shell scripting
Strong infrastructure and security fundamentals
Experience in maintaining scalable and reliable systems (e.g., experience with PubSub, service accounts, identity management & RBAC and CI/CD).
Experience with setting up and maintaining observability for deployed applications
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Self-starter - able to come up to speed on complex, difficult concepts with minimal assistance
Experience communicating complex technical issues to technical and non technical team members
Excitement about generative AI technology and its impact on the creative economy.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
Nice to Have
Managing web service infrastructure (e.g. load balancers, reverse proxies, CDNs)
Monitoring and improving cloud resource usage and costs
Management of training and inference workloads
Management of CI infrastructure for internal development
Have prior experience working closely with technical teams in creating and deploying infrastructure.
Passion for building robust and secure systems
Possess a track record of helping companies properly manage their infrastructure through IaC
Experience with Helm and Kustomize
Founding team
Our founding team consists of world-renowned AI experts including Mohammad Norouzi, Jonathan Ho, William Chan, and Chitwan Saharia. This team has previously led transformative AI projects at Google Brain, UC Berkeley, CMU, and the University of Toronto. Our fundamental work in AI includes: Imagen: Google’s text-to-image system, Imagen Video for video synthesis, Denoising Diffusion Models, which is the foundation of the recent generative media transformation.
Company Culture
We're a single flat team that transcends engineering, research, product, and operation roles. Everyone is willing to do whatever is necessary to make our company and customers successful. We believe that a small, dedicated team with a collaborative culture can move faster and build better and more coherent products than large hierarchical organizations. At Ideogram, we provide mentorship and support to help our employees grow with the company and achieve their ambitious career goals.
Ideogram is committed to welcoming everyone, regardless of gender identity, orientation, or expression. Our mission is to remove exclusivity and barriers and encourage new thinking and perceptions, in a space of belonging. It is not about race, gender, or age, it is about the people.