Mirage
ML Engineer, Generative Video
Union Square, New York City · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 2 days ago
Machine LearningDeep LearningPyTorchA/B TestingSystems EngineeringResearch
About the role
- You'll work on novel modeling approaches, training objectives, scaling strategies, and inference optimization and efficiency to bring cutting-edge models into production.
- This role sits at the intersection of research and systems engineering, focusing on making advanced models faster, more efficient, and capable of ultra-low latency, real-time generation.
Responsibilities
- Train and optimize large-scale video and multimodal models
- Implement techniques such as distillation, quantization, and pruning to aggressively accelerate diffusion and autoregressive generation
- Build and maintain distributed training systems
- Optimize GPU utilization, parallelism, and throughput
- Develop tooling for experimentation, evaluation, and debugging
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.
- Strong experience in deep learning systems and infrastructure
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 https://mirage.app/captions (Captions by Mirage)
- Research https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08279 (Seeing Voices, technical-white-paper)
- Updates https://x.com/trymirage (Mirage on X / twitter)
- TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/mirage-raises-75m-to-continue-building-models-for-its-ai-video-editing-app-captions/, Forbes AI 50 https://www.forbes.com/companies/captions/?list=ai50, Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/91270234/video-most-innovative-companies-fast-company-2025-youtube-roku-tubi-vimeo-captions-descript-cour-procreate-synthesia-beeble (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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