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Research Engineer, Agentic Systems

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Research Engineer, Agentic Systems in USA

  • New York, NY

Responsibilities

  • Design and build end-to-end agentic systems for creative tasks
  • Develop approaches for training and adapting the 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 large language model techniques
  • Experience with fine-tuning, alignment, or post-training methods, particularly for structured outputs or tool use
  • Ability to own the full stack from model-level experiments through deployed agent systems
  • Strong experimental rigor and practical judgment about effective agent behavior

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • 401K with employer match
  • Commuter benefits
  • Catered lunch multiple days per week
  • Dinner stipend every night when working late
  • Grubhub subscription
  • Health and wellness perks
  • Multiple team offsites per year and monthly team events
  • Generous PTO policy
  • In-person work required at the NYC headquarters in Union Square; benefits apply to full-time employees only

Salary: $175k - $275k/yr

Mirage

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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