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Research Engineer, Agentic Systems
MirageGenerative Video company
New York, United StatesMid
Index Ventures
Kleiner Perkins
Andreessen Horowitz
Sequoia Capital
HubSpot Ventures
Adobe Ventures
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Research Engineer to build and extend agentic systems using LLMs for creative tasks.
- •Mirage is seeking an ML Engineer to push the boundaries of large language models for multimodal creative tasks.
- •You'll develop new approaches for building and extending agentic systems that understand and operate over complex, real-world data, particularly video.
- •Key Responsibilities Design and build end-to-end agentic systems for creative tasks Develop novel approaches for training and adapting the large language models that power these agents Design new 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 Requirements BS/MS/PhD in CS, ML, or 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 adapting models to generate structured outputs or drive tool use Comfort owning the full stack, from model-level experiments to deployed agent systems
Required skills
PythonLLMsComputer VisionNLP
Nice-to-have skills
OpenAI APIAnthropic APIGemini APILangChainHugging Face
Domain expertise
mediaproductivityai
Benefits & perks
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
Tech stack
PythonLLMsOpenAI APIAnthropic APIGemini APILangChainHugging FaceComputer VisionNLP