Research Engineer, LLMs
Mirage•New York, NY
•Onsite
About The Position
Mirage is seeking a Research Engineer to build and scale systems for training and deploying large language models for multimodal creative tasks, specifically focusing on video analysis pipelines. You’ll work closely with researchers to turn ideas into high-performance systems that power new product capabilities. This role emphasizes efficiency, scalability, and robustness across the full LLM lifecycle.
Requirements
- 2+ years of professional industry experience
- Strong experience with large-scale ML systems
- Proficiency in PyTorch, CUDA, Triton, and distributed training
- Experience optimizing LLM training or inference
- Strong systems intuition (memory, compute, throughput tradeoffs)
- Ability to bridge research and production
- Strong software engineering and debugging skills
Responsibilities
- Build pipelines for large-scale LLM training and fine-tuning, optimizing data loaders for high-bandwidth multimodal datasets
- Optimize training and inference performance
- Implement distributed systems for scalable experimentation
- Improve latency, throughput, and cost efficiency for complex multimodal inputs and structured generation
- Support deployment of LLM systems into production environments
- Develop tools for evaluation, monitoring, and iteration
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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