Captions
Software Engineer, Early Career
Union Square, New York City · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 86 days ago
iOSDistributed SystemsAlgorithmsPlatform EngineeringA/B TestingDesign SystemsResearch
About the role
- We're hiring exceptional new grad engineers to join Mirage across product engineering, backend / platform engineering, and applied AI teams.
- We prioritize hiring uniquely talented, entrepreneurial, and high-agency engineers first-because engineering at Mirage isn't narrowly defined.
- We work across different archetypes, and most of us span more than one, giving you the opportunity to explore and choose your path from the following areas:
Responsibilities
- Design and build the systems, APIs, and infrastructure that power our products
- Build core platform pieces: storage, billing, observability, security
- Build highly polished, performant user interfaces (web or native mobile)
- Build evals, datasets, and tooling for improving model quality
Requirements
- Evidence of exceptional ability: prestigious or highly selective internships, significant personal projects (apps, systems, open source, etc.), startup or founder experience (even in college)
Nice to have
- Strong computer science fundamentals (algorithms, data-structures, etc.)
- Degree in Computer Science or a closely related field (top programs preferred)
- You are deeply interested in AI, and actively use AI coding tools
- You have strong product and engineering taste, and care deeply about craft, speed, and quality.
- You are grounded, collaborative, and will do whatever it takes to help the team win.
Skills
- Ship end-to-end product experiences for creative workflows
- Push the boundaries of video, graphics, and AI-powered creation tools
- Instrument, A/B test, and iterate quickly with real user data
- Build and ship AI-powered product experiences end-to-end
- Work with state-of-the-art models across video, audio, image, and text
- Design systems for context, reasoning, and intelligent behavior
Compensation
- Multiple team offsites per year with team events every month
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
- Commuter Benefits
- Dinner stipend every night if you're working late and want a bite!
- Health & Wellness Perks
- Generous PTO policy
- Please note benefits apply to full time employees only.
Company info
- Mirage is an AI-native video platform that intelligently orchestrates production and editing through natural language.
- Our models leverage contextual awareness to execute the same creative decisions a professional editor would - dramatically improving productivity for experienced teams, while making video creation accessible to anyone.
- We're an interdisciplinary team addressing some of the most difficult technical and creative challenges in generative media.
- As an early member of our team, you'll tackle foundational problems that remain largely unsolved across the industry, driving an outsized impact on the future of creative expression.
- More about us
- Product (Captions by Mirage)
- Research (Seeing Voices, technical-white-paper)
- Updates (Mirage on X / twitter)
- TechCrunch, Forbes AI 50, Fast Company (press)
- Our Investors
- We're very fortunate to have some the best investors and entrepreneurs backing us, including Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Uncommon Projects, Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger, Lenny Rachitsky, Antoine Martin, Julie Zhuo, Ben Rubin, Jaren Glover, SVAngel, 20VC, Ludlow Ventures, Chapter One, and more.
- Please note that all of our roles will require you to be in-person at our NYC HQ (located in Union Square)
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