Mirage
New York City, New York
Job DescriptionJob Description 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 (Captions by Mirage) Research (Seeing Voices, technical-white-paper) Updates (Mirage on X / twitter) TechCrunch, Forbes AI 50, 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 We're looking for an experienced software engineer to help design and build our next-generation, cross-platform rendering engine for video and graphics. This is a foundational, long-term effort: you'll work on core systems that power how media is rendered, transformed, and composed across platforms. The work spans low-level rendering, media processing, and systems design. You'll help define the architecture, make fundamental technical decisions, and build infrastructure that will support increasingly sophisticated creative workflows. We don't use hierarchical titles or levels internally, but are currently hiring engineers who have operated at senior or staff+ scope. Responsibilities Design and build a high-performance, cross-platform rendering engine for video and graphics, capable of powering complex creative workflows Own core media and rendering systems, including composition, transforms, effects, and execution pipelines Make foundational architectural decisions around engine structure, language choice, performance tradeoffs, and long-term maintainability Optimize for performance, correctness, and scalability, balancing throughput, latency, and resource efficiency in production environments Collaborate with product, AI, and client teams to ensure the engine supports evolving creative and product requirements Build abstractions and APIs that enable other teams to build on top of the engine safely and efficiently What makes you a great fit Strong experience building performance-critical systems in production Deep understanding of graphics, media, or rendering pipelines, such as video processing, real-time or offline rendering, or GPU-accelerated systems Proficiency in one or more systems programming languages (e.g., C++, Rust, or similar), with the ability to reason about memory, concurrency, and performance Strong computer science fundamentals, especially in algorithms, data structures, and systems design Experience owning large, complex projects over long time horizons Comfortable operating in ambiguous problem spaces and making high-leverage technical decisions Even better if You've worked on rendering engines, media pipelines, or graphics infrastructure used at scale You have experience with video codecs, media formats, or GPU compute You've built or maintained cross-platform engines or shared core systems You enjoy close collaboration and working on deep technical problems 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. Compensation Range: $185K - $285K
Job DescriptionJob Description 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 (Captions by Mirage) Research (Seeing Voices, technical-white-paper) Updates (Mirage on X / twitter) TechCrunch, Forbes AI 50, 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 We're looking for an experienced software engineer to help design and build our next-generation, cross-platform rendering engine for video and graphics. This is a foundational, long-term effort: you'll work on core systems that power how media is rendered, transformed, and composed across platforms. The work spans low-level rendering, media processing, and systems design. You'll help define the architecture, make fundamental technical decisions, and build infrastructure that will support increasingly sophisticated creative workflows. We don't use hierarchical titles or levels internally, but are currently hiring engineers who have operated at senior or staff+ scope. Responsibilities Design and build a high-performance, cross-platform rendering engine for video and graphics, capable of powering complex creative workflows Own core media and rendering systems, including composition, transforms, effects, and execution pipelines Make foundational architectural decisions around engine structure, language choice, performance tradeoffs, and long-term maintainability Optimize for performance, correctness, and scalability, balancing throughput, latency, and resource efficiency in production environments Collaborate with product, AI, and client teams to ensure the engine supports evolving creative and product requirements Build abstractions and APIs that enable other teams to build on top of the engine safely and efficiently What makes you a great fit Strong experience building performance-critical systems in production Deep understanding of graphics, media, or rendering pipelines, such as video processing, real-time or offline rendering, or GPU-accelerated systems Proficiency in one or more systems programming languages (e.g., C++, Rust, or similar), with the ability to reason about memory, concurrency, and performance Strong computer science fundamentals, especially in algorithms, data structures, and systems design Experience owning large, complex projects over long time horizons Comfortable operating in ambiguous problem spaces and making high-leverage technical decisions Even better if You've worked on rendering engines, media pipelines, or graphics infrastructure used at scale You have experience with video codecs, media formats, or GPU compute You've built or maintained cross-platform engines or shared core systems You enjoy close collaboration and working on deep technical problems 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. Compensation Range: $185K - $285K
Mirage
New York City, New York
Job DescriptionJob Description 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 (Captions by Mirage) Research (Seeing Voices, technical-white-paper) Updates (Mirage on X / twitter) TechCrunch, Forbes AI 50, 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) Note to applicants: We review every application carefully. Please apply through the official posting only and refrain from reaching out to employees directly, as it won't impact your candidacy. About the role We're hiring exceptional new grad engineers to join Mirage across product engineering, backend / platform engineering, and applied AI teams. You'll have the opportunity to work closely with a small, highly collaborative team that's building at the frontier of generative media and agentic systems. We prioritize hiring uniquely talented, entrepreneurial, and high-agency engineers first-because engineering at Mirage isn't narrowly defined. We work across different archetypes, and most of us span more than one, giving you the opportunity to explore and choose your path from the following areas: Backend / Platform Engineering Design and build the systems, APIs, and infrastructure that power our products Solve challenges in distributed systems, scaling, and performance Integrate and operate large AI models in production Build core platform pieces: storage, billing, observability, security Product Engineering (iOS or Web Product) Ship end-to-end product experiences for creative workflows Build highly polished, performant user interfaces (web or native mobile) Push the boundaries of video, graphics, and AI-powered creation tools Instrument, A/B test, and iterate quickly with real user data Applied AI Engineering Build and ship AI-powered product experiences end-to-end Work with state-of-the-art models across video, audio, image, and text Design systems for context, reasoning, and intelligent behavior Build evals, datasets, and tooling for improving model quality What we're looking for Evidence of exceptional ability: prestigious or highly selective internships, significant personal projects (apps, systems, open source, etc.), startup or founder experience (even in college) Strong computer science fundamentals (algorithms, data-structures, etc.) Degree in Computer Science or a closely related field (top programs preferred) You are deeply interested in AI, and actively use AI coding tools You have strong product and engineering taste, and care deeply about craft, speed, and quality. You are grounded, collaborative, and will do whatever it takes to help the team win. 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. Compensation Range: $160K - $165K
Job DescriptionJob Description 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 (Captions by Mirage) Research (Seeing Voices, technical-white-paper) Updates (Mirage on X / twitter) TechCrunch, Forbes AI 50, 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) Note to applicants: We review every application carefully. Please apply through the official posting only and refrain from reaching out to employees directly, as it won't impact your candidacy. About the role We're hiring exceptional new grad engineers to join Mirage across product engineering, backend / platform engineering, and applied AI teams. You'll have the opportunity to work closely with a small, highly collaborative team that's building at the frontier of generative media and agentic systems. We prioritize hiring uniquely talented, entrepreneurial, and high-agency engineers first-because engineering at Mirage isn't narrowly defined. We work across different archetypes, and most of us span more than one, giving you the opportunity to explore and choose your path from the following areas: Backend / Platform Engineering Design and build the systems, APIs, and infrastructure that power our products Solve challenges in distributed systems, scaling, and performance Integrate and operate large AI models in production Build core platform pieces: storage, billing, observability, security Product Engineering (iOS or Web Product) Ship end-to-end product experiences for creative workflows Build highly polished, performant user interfaces (web or native mobile) Push the boundaries of video, graphics, and AI-powered creation tools Instrument, A/B test, and iterate quickly with real user data Applied AI Engineering Build and ship AI-powered product experiences end-to-end Work with state-of-the-art models across video, audio, image, and text Design systems for context, reasoning, and intelligent behavior Build evals, datasets, and tooling for improving model quality What we're looking for Evidence of exceptional ability: prestigious or highly selective internships, significant personal projects (apps, systems, open source, etc.), startup or founder experience (even in college) Strong computer science fundamentals (algorithms, data-structures, etc.) Degree in Computer Science or a closely related field (top programs preferred) You are deeply interested in AI, and actively use AI coding tools You have strong product and engineering taste, and care deeply about craft, speed, and quality. You are grounded, collaborative, and will do whatever it takes to help the team win. 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. Compensation Range: $160K - $165K