Software Engineer, Early Career at Mirage in New York, NY

Summary: Mirage is an AI-native video platform that intelligently orchestrates production and editing through natural language. The role involves joining a collaborative team to tackle foundational problems in generative media, focusing on backend and product engineering, as well as applied AI engineering. Responsibilities: - 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 - 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 - 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 Required Qualifications: - 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 Required Skills: Computer Science Fundamentals, Algorithms, Data Structures, AI Coding Tools, Distributed Systems, API Design, Infrastructure Engineering, Scaling, Performance Optimization, AI Model Integration, Storage Systems, Billing Systems, Security, iOS Development, Web Development, Video Processing, Graphics, AI-Powered Creation Tools, A/B Testing, Product Engineering, Applied AI Engineering, Dataset Creation, Model Evaluation, Open Source Development 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 (Talkspace, Kindbody, One Medical subscription, HealthAdvocate, Teladoc), Multiple team offsites per year with team events every month, Generous PTO policy