Software Engineer - Early Career

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 https://mirage.app/captions (Captions by Mirage)

Research https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08279 (Seeing Voices, technical-white-paper)

Updates https://x.com/trymirage (Mirage on X / twitter)

TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/mirage-raises-75m-to-continue-building-models-for-its-ai-video-editing-app-captions/, Forbes AI 50 https://www.forbes.com/companies/captions/?list=ai50, Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/91270234/video-most-innovative-companies-fast-company-2025-youtube-roku-tubi-vimeo-captions-descript-cour-procreate-synthesia-beeble (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.