--- title: 'Data Scientist, Product at Mirage' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/data-scientist-product-mirage-new-york-40f334rc3p2t' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-13' --- # Data Scientist, Product at Mirage - **Company:** Mirage - **Location:** New York, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Posted:** 2026-09-29 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mirage/52050007-3817-4151-9e68-41ec0dd03e42 ## 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](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/captions-ai-edits-your-video/id1541407007) — Our flagship creative workspace [Tesseract](https://x.com/trymirage/status/2102429594804429138) — Our professional video engine for AI agents [Research](https://mirage.app/research?utm_source=chatgpt.com) — The foundation models we build in-house [Updates](https://x.com/trymirage) — The latest from Mirage [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/mirage-raises-75m-to-continue-building-models-for-its-ai-video-editing-app-captions/), [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/companies/captions/?list=ai50), [Fast Company](https://www.fastcompany.com/91270234/video-most-innovative-companies-fast-company-2025-youtube-roku-tubi-vimeo-captions-descript-cour-procreate-synthesia-beeble) — 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 We’re hiring two Product Data Scientists to ground the decisions behind Captions in clear metrics, rigorous analysis, and a deep understanding of how people use the product. One person will embed with our iOS team and the other with our web team, working day to day with Product, Design, Engineering, and Data Engineering. You’ll be present as questions and product ideas take shape, not brought in after launch to explain what happened. You’ll define success, evaluate experiments, investigate user behavior, and turn ambiguous findings into clear recommendations. You’ll then follow them through by communicating the reasoning, building alignment, and making sure decisions result in action. We care about analytical depth, product judgment, and the ability to make a team more rigorous. We work AI-first: Codex and Claude Code are part of the everyday workflow, and you’ll be expected to validate the work they help produce. ## Key Responsibilities - Embed with either the iOS or web team from planning through launch, defining hypotheses, success criteria, core metrics, and measurement approaches while partnering with Engineering and Data Engineering on instrumentation and data quality. - Lead analysis to uncover patterns in product and user behavior, prioritize high-leverage opportunities, recommend actions, and measure realized impact. - Design and evaluate A/B tests and other product measurements, setting appropriate guardrails and turning results into decisions. - Create executive-ready visualizations, dashboards, experiment readouts, and decision memos that drive alignment on what happened and what the team should do next. - Build machine learning and statistical models to solve core user problems, improve the product experience, and deliver measurable user impact. - Design AI-native tools, systems, and automated workflows that accelerate data science and analytics while enabling self-service capabilities. Required Qualifications - A bachelor’s degree in a behavioral or quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience, with a strong statistical foundation. - 3+ years of experience in product analytics or product data science, acting as the analytics voice within a consumer product team. - High proficiency in SQL and either Python or R, including libraries such as pandas, NumPy, SciPy, or Tidyverse, with strong data-model reasoning and the ability to write and understand analytical code. - Experience applying statistical analysis, experimental design, causal inference, and machine learning to product problems, with the judgment to choose an appropriately simple method and translate the result into a specific, actionable recommendation. - Fluency using AI across exploration, analysis, experimentation, and modeling, including providing relevant context, debugging incorrect outputs, and converting repeatable work into reliable workflows. - Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain uncertainty and limitations, persuade technical and nontechnical partners, and lead decisions through to action. ## Nice to Have - Experience with iOS or web analytics, including instrumentation, release measurement, funnels, or experimentation. - Experience with dbt, cloud data warehouses, and large event datasets. - Experience applying product analytics to a consumer creative product. - Experience building reusable AI-powered data science systems, such as agents, orchestration layers, automated analyses, or evaluation and review workflows. - Strong user empathy, curiosity, and excitement about learning in a fast-moving environment. - A proactive, independent working style: you pursue leads, find the people and context you need, operate through ambiguity, and follow work through from recommendation to action. 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. ## About Mirage ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Mirage builds full-stack AI foundation models and products that turn voice and language into photorealistic video, empowering creators and businesses to produce high-quality video content instantly. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series D, total funding $175M) - **Headquarters**: New York, United States - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Gaurav Misra (CEO) and Dwight Churchill (COO) ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: AI video generation, generative media, software development - **Target customers**: Content creators, businesses, marketing teams, enterprises (B2B and B2C) - **Mission**: To close the gap between idea and video, making video creation as fast and intuitive as thought. ## Products & Services - **Captions**: An all-in-one AI video editor and generator for iOS and web. Users can create footage with AI avatars or digital twins, generate videos from text prompts, and add automated captions, visuals, and audio. - **Mirage API**: Enables bulk video generation and captioning, allowing developers to integrate state-of-the-art video intelligence into their own workflows. - **Mirage Foundation Models**: Proprietary multimodal models that produce A-roll footage with natural lip movement, eye contact, and emotional expression from voice and language input. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (Tracxn lists a current valuation but masks the figure) - **Key Metric**: Total funding of $175M across 5 rounds (Seed, Series A, B, C, and debt financing) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, General Catalyst, plus angel investors Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger, Lenny Rachitsky, Julie Zhuo, Ben Rubin, Nico Wittenborn, Jared Leto, and others. - **Growth Signals**: - 20M+ creators and businesses use Captions - 3M+ monthly videos created - 100K+ daily active users (estimated) - Headcount grew 12.9% year-over-year to 59 employees - Acquired AlpacaML (Nov 2024) to expand capabilities - Presence in Germany, Austria, and Philippines alongside US headquarters ## Competitive Advantages - **Full-stack foundation models**: Mirage owns the entire stack from model training to consumer and enterprise products, giving them tight integration and rapid iteration. - **Multimodal realism**: Their models synchronize speech with natural lip movement, eye contact, and emotional expression, creating highly believable AI-generated video. - **Product ecosystem**: A single platform (Captions) plus an API and model licensing enables both direct consumer use and B2B integration. - **Talent density**: Team includes alumni from Google DeepMind, Snap, Instagram, Palantir, and other top AI/tech companies. ## Strategic Focus - Continue scaling Captions as the go-to AI video editor for creators and businesses - Expand the Mirage API to power video generation at scale for enterprise customers - Advance foundation model research to improve realism, speed, and multilingual support - Grow headcount selectively (19 open roles as of mid-2026) with emphasis on engineering, AI research, and marketing ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Early-stage environment where employees have outsized impact on product and company direction. Emphasis on craft, technical excellence, and creative problem-solving. - **Team**: Small (59 people) but highly skilled, with many hires from top AI labs and consumer tech companies. - **Work model**: Headquarters in New York City (177 Huntington Ave); hybrid/remote policy not explicitly stated but likely flexible given global team. - **Perks**: Not detailed, but the company’s rapid growth and strong funding suggest competitive compensation and equity. - **Mission**: Opportunity to shape the future of AI-generated video at a company that is redefining how people create and communicate. ## Sources 1. [mirage.app](https://mirage.app/about-us) 2. [mirage.app](https://website.mirage.app/) 3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/trymirage) 4. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/mirage/__AVHAd-QsYzzkaex-b7taDC1oRlTkqQfUOGstLg-OGAQ) 5. 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