Software Engineer, iOS
At a glance
Mid-level Software Engineering role at Mirage. New York · full-time · $175,000–$275,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Build native iOS video products, taking creative features from early concepts through release to users
- Shape product ideas with designers and teammates, then deliver the resulting user experiences
- Scope and carry projects through completion while working in a very fast-moving environment
- Use production data to test changes, compare results and refine the product quickly
What you bring
- At least two years of professional software engineering experience
- A record of releasing successful native mobile products used in production
- Working knowledge of algorithms and data structures, paired with sound engineering judgment
- Experience with several listed iOS frameworks, such as SwiftUI, AVFoundation or Core Animation
Who this fits
This role suits a mid-level iOS engineer who can take ownership of creative product work and collaborate closely with designers. Most roles require working in person at the New York City headquarters.
From the employer
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 most 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.
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