Mirage

Research Engineer, Agentic Systems

Mirage
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Base Salary

$175k - $275k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build end-to-end agentic systems for creative tasks.
  • Develop approaches for training and adapting large language models powering the agents.
  • Create objectives, datasets, and fine-tuning strategies to improve agent behavior and reliability.
  • Explore multimodal reasoning and structured generation for creative control.
  • Run systematic experiments to evaluate and improve agent performance in real-world tasks.
  • Design evaluation frameworks for agentic workflows in video analysis and editing.
  • Analyze failure modes across planning, tool use, and execution, and iterate on improvements.

Requirements

  • BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, machine learning, or a related field.
  • Strong track record building production ML systems or agentic pipelines.
  • Deep understanding of transformers and modern LLM techniques.
  • Experience with fine-tuning, alignment, or post-training methods, especially for structured outputs or tool use.
  • Ability to own the full stack from model-level experiments through deployed agent systems.
  • Strong experimental rigor and judgment about practical agent performance.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • 401(k) with employer match.
  • Commuter benefits.
  • Catered lunch multiple days per week.
  • Dinner stipend when working late.
  • Grubhub subscription.
  • Health and wellness perks.
  • Multiple team offsites per year and monthly team events.
  • Generous paid time off policy.
  • All roles require in-person work at the NYC headquarters in Union Square.
  • Benefits apply to full-time employees only.
Mirage

About Mirage

51-200 employees

At Mirage, we’re building full-stack foundation models and products that redefine video creation. Over 20 million content creators and businesses use Captions to reach their full creative and commercial potential.

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