Software Engineer, iOS

Mirage•New York, NY

3d•$175,000 - $275,000•Onsite

About The Position

Mirage is an AI video company focused on making creation dramatically easier. Our team tackles some of the hardest creative and technical challenges in generative media. We get to rethink how people collaborate with AI that can actually do creative work with them—defining entirely new interaction paradigms for AI-native video tools. We make that possible by building multimodal agents that turn creative direction into edits, rendering engines that composite multiple layers of video and graphics, and generative video models trained from the ground up that create new media when needed. All of this comes together in Captions, our creative workspace for generating, editing, and designing video. The technology behind Captions is now available more broadly: Tesseract gives any AI agent native video-editing capabilities, while developers can integrate our models into their own products through APIs. Explore our work Captions — Our flagship creative workspace Tesseract — Our professional video engine for AI agents Research — The foundation models we build in-house Updates — The latest from Mirage TechCrunch, Forbes, Fast Company — Press Our Investors We’re very fortunate to have some the best investors and entrepreneurs backing us, including Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Uncommon Projects, Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger, Lenny Rachitsky, Antoine Martin, Julie Zhuo, Ben Rubin, Jaren Glover, SVAngel, 20VC, Ludlow Ventures, Chapter One, and more. Please note that all of our roles will require you to be in-person at our NYC HQ (located in Union Square) About the role Our iOS team owns end-to-end product experiences for creative workflows—pushing the boundaries of the iOS ecosystem by building sophisticated creative tools that span delightful user interfaces, graphics rendering, and audio/video processing. As a small, collaborative team, our product engineers are trusted with a high degree of ownership and agency.

Requirements

2+ years of professional industry experience
A track record of shipping high‑impact, native mobile products in production
Excellent engineering taste combined with a strong sense of practicality and time-management
Experience with (ideally a few) SwiftUI, Combine, RxSwift, ReactiveSwift, AVFoundation, Core Animation, and Realm
Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals (algorithms and data structures).

Nice To Haves

You have experience with OpenGL or Metal
You are grounded, collaborative, and willing to do whatever it takes to help the team win
You have been a startup founder or an early engineer at one

Responsibilities

Push the boundaries of iOS and build products that shape the future of video software
Collaborate with designers and the broader team to conceptualize and ship incredible experiences directly to users
Operate effectively in an extremely fast-paced environment as well as scope and deliver projects end-to-end
Instrument, A/B, and iterate rapidly with production data