Software Engineer, iOS

Mirage; New York (NY); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision

401K with employer match

Commuter Benefits

Catered lunch several days a week

Dinner stipend for late work

Grubhub subscription

Health & Wellness Perks

Team offsites

Generous PTO

Job summary

Mirage is seeking a skilled iOS engineer to own end-to-end product experiences for creative workflows. You will ship native mobile features that push the boundaries of video software and collaborate with designers to deliver delightful user experiences.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years of professional experience, a track record of shipping production mobile products, and strong CS fundamentals. Startups and early teams are encouraged to apply; NYC HQ in Union Square is required.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional industry experience.
• Track record of shipping high‑impact native mobile products in production.
• Strong CS fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
• Experience with SwiftUI, Combine, RxSwift, ReactiveSwift, AVFoundation, Core Animation, and Realm.

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 a fast-paced environment and scope and deliver projects end-to-end.
• Instrument, A/B, and iterate rapidly with production data.

Skills

2+ years experience

SwiftUI

Combine

RxSwift

ReactiveSwift

AVFoundation

Core Animation

Realm

Tools

OpenGL

Metal

Job description

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.

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

What makes you a great fit

• 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).

Even better if…

• 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

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

Captions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Please note benefits apply to full time employees only.