Mirage
Research Engineer, Generative Video
Union Square, New York City. Posted a month ago
The role
You will build and scale systems powering video generation models. The role focuses on novel modeling approaches, training objectives, scaling strategies, and inference optimization.
What you will do
- Train and optimize large-scale video and multimodal models
- Improve efficiency across training and inference (memory, latency, cost)
- Implement techniques such as distillation, quantization, and pruning to aggressively accelerate diffusion and autoregressive generation
- Build and maintain distributed training systems
- Optimize GPU utilization, parallelism, and throughput
- Develop tooling for experimentation, evaluation, and debugging
- Translate research models into robust, production-ready systems
- Monitor and improve model performance in real-world usage
Required qualifications
- BS/MS/PhD in CS, ML, or related field
- 2+ years of professional industry experience
- Strong experience in deep learning systems and infrastructure
- Expertise in PyTorch, CUDA, Triton, and distributed training (FSDP, etc.)
- Experience scaling and optimizing large models under low-latency inference constraints
- Strong debugging and performance profiling skills
- Ability to move quickly from prototype to production
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
About the company
Mirage is an AI video company focused on making creation dramatically easier. The team builds multimodal agents, rendering engines, and generative video models for products like Captions and Tesseract.