Software Engineer, Mirage
Early Career
$160-165k
Offers equity
5 days a week in office (Union Square, New York City)
AI-powered creative studio
Be an early applicant
AI-powered creative studio
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-165k
Offers equity
5 days a week in office (Union Square, New York City)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower our customers, regardless of background or experience, with the ability to bring their vision to life in seconds.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
As AI integration grows in creative fields, concerns arise about the future of professions like writing and design. However, Mirage, formerly Cpations, has transformed these anxieties into opportunities by harnessing AI technology to streamline the creative workflow.
By automating tasks in music, graphic design, and video production, Mirage allows users to generate compelling content directly from their mobile devices. With a focus on meeting the rising demand for captivating digital content, its subscription-based model covers key processes like captioning, editing, dubbing, and soundtracking.
Mirage's innovative approach has garnered attention, securing funding from tech giants like Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz. This investment will grow the company's machine learning team and invest further into technical infrastructure and in-house research efforts. It's the latter that spurned the company's rebrand from Captions in 2025, unifying the offerings of AI video platform Captions and the recently launched Mirage Studio under one name. It is refocusing on AI research into multimodal foundational models, which will help it differentiate itself in a highly competitive AI video solutions market.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2026
$75m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jul 2024
$60m
SERIES C
Total funding: $160m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
- Anything you need to do your best work
- We’ve done team off-sites to places like Paris, London, Park City, Los Angeles, and Nashville with more planned in the future
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Gaurav Misra
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously the Head of Design Engineering at Snap Inc, Senior Software Engineer at Localytics, Software Development Engineer at Microsoft, and Software Engineer at Lattice Engines.
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