Research Scientist, LLMs

Mirage • New York, NY

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Mirage is seeking a Research Scientist to push the boundaries of large language models for multimodal creative tasks. You’ll develop new approaches for adapting and extending LLMs to understand and operate over complex, real-world data, particularly video
This role focuses on advancing model capabilities, improving reasoning and control, and enabling new forms of interaction between language and time-based media.

Requirements

• MS/PhD in ML, CS, or related field
• Strong track record in LLMs, NLP, video understanding, or multimodal learning
• 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
• Strong experimental rigor and research taste

Responsibilities

• Develop novel approaches for training and adapting large language models
• Design new objectives, datasets, and fine-tuning strategies
• Explore multimodal reasoning and structured generation
• Run systematic experiments to improve model behavior and reliability
• Design evaluation frameworks for complex, real-world tasks in video analysis
• Analyze failure modes and iterate on model improvements

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time