Research Engineer, Generative Video

New York, NY

About the role

Mirage is an AI video company focused on making creation dramatically easier. Our team tackles some of the hardest creative and technical challenges in generative media.

We get to rethink how people collaborate with AI that can actually do creative work with them—defining entirely new interaction paradigms for AI-native video tools. We make that possible by building multimodal agents that turn creative direction into edits, rendering engines that composite multiple layers of video and graphics, and generative video models trained from the ground up that create new media when needed.

All of this comes together in Captions, our creative workspace for generating, editing, and designing video. The technology behind Captions is now available more broadly: Tesseract gives any AI agent native video-editing capabilities, while developers can integrate our models into their own products through APIs.

Explore our work
Captions — Our flagship creative workspace
Tesseract — Our professional video engine for AI agents
Research — The foundation models we build in-house
Updates — The latest from Mirage
TechCrunch, Forbes, 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)

About the Role
Mirage is seeking an ML Engineer to build and scale the systems powering our video generation models. 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

  • Improve efficiency across training and inference (memory, latency, cost)

  • 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

  • Translate research models into robust, production-ready systems

  • Monitor and improve model performance in real-world usage

What makes you a great fit

  • BS/MS/PhD in CS, ML, or related field

  • 2+ years of professional industry experience

  • Strong experience in deep learning systems and infrastructure

  • Expertise in PyTorch, CUDA, Triton, and distributed training (FSDP, etc.)

  • Experience scaling and optimizing large models under low-latency inference constraints

  • Strong debugging and performance profiling skills

  • Ability to move quickly from prototype to production

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans

  • 401K with employer match

  • Commuter Benefits

  • Catered lunch multiple days per week

  • Dinner stipend every night if you're working late and want a bite!

  • Grubhub subscription

  • Health & Wellness Perks

  • Multiple team offsites per year with team events every month

  • Generous PTO policy

Captions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Please note benefits apply to full time employees only.

About Mirage

Mirage (formerly Captions) is an AI video company headquartered in New York City that builds foundation models and products for video creation and editing. Its flagship Captions app enables over 20 million users to create and edit professional-quality videos through natural language, while its enterprise platform, Mirage Studio, generates AI actors and videos for marketing campaigns. The company rebranded from Captions to Mirage in 2025 to reflect its expanded mission as an AI lab building proprietary generative video models.

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Job details

Location

New York, NY

Company

NameMirage
IndustrySoftware
Team Size3

Funding

Total raised

$175M

Last stage

Growth

Investors

General Catalyst
Index Ventures
KKleiner

Founders

Gaurav Misra

Gaurav Misra

Co-Founder and CEO

LinkedIn
DC

Dwight Churchill

Co-Founder and COO

LinkedIn

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.