Mirage
ML Engineer, Agentic Systems
Union Square, New York City · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 9 days ago
Full-Stack DevelopmentMachine LearningNLPLLMsAgentic AIMLOpsResearch
About the role
- Mirage is seeking an ML Engineer to push the boundaries of large language models for multimodal creative tasks.
- This role focuses on advancing agent capabilities, improving reasoning and control, and enabling new forms of interaction between language models and time-based media.
Responsibilities
- Design and build end-to-end agentic systems for creative tasks
- Develop novel approaches for training and adapting the large language models that power these agents
- Design new objectives, datasets, and fine-tuning strategies to improve agent behavior and reliability
- Design evaluation frameworks for agentic workflows in video analysis and editing
- Strong track record building production ML systems or agentic pipelines
Requirements
- Experience with fine-tuning, alignment, or post-training methods, especially for adapting models to generate structured outputs or drive tool use
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 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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