Research Engineer Agentic Systems

Mirage is an AI video company building creative tools for video, motion, and sound.

New York City, United States
About Mirage

Mirage develops AI-native video-creation products, including the Captions app and Tesseract runtime, alongside foundation models for expressive video generation.

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About the Role

You will develop end-to-end agentic systems for creative video tasks. You will train and adapt large language models, design datasets and fine-tuning strategies, evaluate agent workflows, and improve planning, tool use, and execution reliability.

Requirements

  • BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, machine learning, or a related field
  • Track record of building production machine learning systems or agentic pipelines
  • Deep understanding of transformers and modern large language model techniques
  • Experience with fine-tuning, alignment, or post-training methods
  • Ability to own model experiments through deployed agent systems
  • Experimental rigor

Responsibilities

  • Design and build end-to-end agentic systems for creative tasks
  • Develop approaches for training and adapting large language models
  • Design objectives, datasets, and fine-tuning strategies
  • Explore multimodal reasoning and structured generation for creative control
  • Run experiments to evaluate and improve agent performance
  • Design evaluation frameworks for video-analysis and editing workflows
  • Analyze agent failure modes and iterate on improvements

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision plans
  • 401K with employer match
  • Commuter benefits
  • Catered lunch multiple days per week
  • Late-night dinner stipend
  • Grubhub subscription
  • Health and wellness perks
  • Multiple team offsites and monthly team events
  • Generous PTO policy