Member of Technical Staff, Training Data Infrastructure
MirageAbout the role
Mirage is the leading AI short-form video company. We’re building full-stack foundation models and products that redefine video creation, production and editing. Over 20 million creators and businesses use Mirage’s products to reach their full creative and commercial potential.
We are a rapidly growing team of ambitious, experienced, and devoted engineers, researchers, designers, marketers, and operators based in NYC. As an early member of our team, you’ll have an opportunity to have an outsized impact on our products and our company's culture.
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About the Role and Team:
Captions seeks an exceptional Research Engineer (MOTS) to drive innovation in training data infrastructure. You'll conduct research on and develop sophisticated distributed training workflows and optimized data processing systems for massive video and multimodal datasets. Beyond pure performance, you'll develop deep insight into our data to maximize training effectiveness. As an early member of our ML Research team, you'll build foundational systems that directly impact our ability to train models powering video and multimodal creation for millions of users.
You'll work directly alongside our research and engineering teams in our NYC office. We've intentionally built a culture where infrastructure and data work is highly valued - your success will be measured by the reliability and performance of our systems, not by your ability to navigate politics. We're a team that loves diving deep into technical problems and emerging with practical solutions.
Our team values:
Quick iteration and practical solutions.
Open discussion of technical approaches.
Direct access to decision makers.
Regular sharing of learnings, results, and iterative work.
Key Responsibilities:
Infrastructure Development:
Build performant pipelines for processing video and multimodal training data at scale.
Design distributed systems that scale seamlessly with our rapidly growing video and multimodal datasets.
Create efficient data loading systems optimized for GPU training throughput.
Implement comprehensive telemetry for video processing and training pipelines.
Core Systems Development:
Create foundation data processing systems that intelligently cache and reuse expensive computations across the training pipeline.
Build robust data validation and quality measurement systems for video and multimodal content.
Design systems for data versioning and reproducing complex multimodal training runs.
Develop efficient storage and compute patterns for high-dimensional data and learned representations.
System Optimization:
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