Mirage
Research Engineer, Agentic Systems
$175K–$300K
Union Square, New York City · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Education
- BS/MS/PhD in CS, ML, or related field
About the job
Build and improve multimodal agent systems that use language models to perform creative tasks, particularly video analysis and editing.
What you'll do
- Design end-to-end agents and develop training approaches, objectives, datasets, and fine-tuning strategies.
- Explore multimodal reasoning and structured generation for creative control; evaluate agent performance and improve reliability.
- Create evaluation frameworks and analyze failures across planning, tool use, and execution.
What they ask for
- 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 structured outputs or tool use.
- Comfort owning the full stack, from model experiments to deployed agent systems.
Pay
$175K – $300K USD base salary
Tools
large language models, transformers
AI focus
Advance multimodal creative agents, improving their reasoning, control, training, and interaction with video and other time-based media.
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