We are building the next-generation AI-powered platform and web application for easy and fast creation of audio and video content. Building a revolutionary way to record, transcribe, edit, and mix audio and video on the web comes with a series of unique technical challenges and requires solving hard and complex problems. We are hiring Software Engineers at the mid-career, senior, and staff levels to join a number of open roles on our Agent team, focused on building the future of Agentic Video Editing! About the team: Descript's Agent launched in Open Beta in July 2025. Since then, we've been working on improving the user experience for chat-based editing, adding more capabilities into our agent, and improving our agent infrastructure to continue to scale as models get better and better. The Agent team is a mix of AI Researchers and Software Engineers committed to our mission to make video editing accessible to anyone. Your peers will be based in San Francisco, New York, and distributed across the US and Canada. This is the role for you if any of the following areas sound exciting: Experimentation to push the limits on quality for our video editing agent (eg. harness and tool design, token/context optimizations, RL/new model development, multimodal, etc) Building a best-in-class product experience for agentic video editing interactions and improving user retention (eg. tuning prompt templates and other key user workflows, addressing user feedback, building key product capabilities like chat history, etc) Laying the foundations for a best-in-class developer experience for building agents (eg. logging, evals framework, online monitoring and feedback loops, etc) What you bring: Minimum Qualifications 3+ years of professional product engineering or fullstack experience Worked with Typescript, React, and RESTful APIs (or similar) Solid CS fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, databases (Postgres, Redis) High ownership and growth mindset You thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy working with other functions (e.g. product, design, AI research) Experience building creative tools in the past or you're a frequent user of creative media tools. If you join Descript, you'll end up making lots of videos! Experience building agents, working evals infrastructure, or designing product experiences powered by LLMs Studies show that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification above, please apply anyways. At our current size and stage, we embrace a flat organizational structure and value the expertise and contributions of every team member. As such, we have a unified job title for our engineering roles where everyone, including those with Staff-level scope, is considered a Software Engineer. While titles may not change, we are actively seeking Software Engineers with senior-or-higher-equivalent experience to join our team. The base salary range for these roles is $174,000-$286,000/year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, location, level, and may vary from the amount above. Descript is the special company that's in possession of both product market fit and the raw materials (passionate user community, great product, large market) for growth, but is still early enough that each new employee has a measurable influence on the direction of the company. Benefits include a generous healthcare package, 401k matching program, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time. Our headquarters are located in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. We're hiring for a mix of remote roles and hybrid roles. For those who are remote, we have a handful of opportunities throughout the year for in person collaboration. For our hybrid roles, we're flexible, and you're an adult-we don't expect or mandate that you're in the office every day. We do believe there are valuable and serendipitous moments of discovery and collaboration that come from working together in person. Descript is an equal opportunity workplace-we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We believe in actively building a team rich in diverse backgrounds, experiences, and opinions to better allow our employees, products, and community to thrive.
04/02/2026
Full time
We are building the next-generation AI-powered platform and web application for easy and fast creation of audio and video content. Building a revolutionary way to record, transcribe, edit, and mix audio and video on the web comes with a series of unique technical challenges and requires solving hard and complex problems. We are hiring Software Engineers at the mid-career, senior, and staff levels to join a number of open roles on our Agent team, focused on building the future of Agentic Video Editing! About the team: Descript's Agent launched in Open Beta in July 2025. Since then, we've been working on improving the user experience for chat-based editing, adding more capabilities into our agent, and improving our agent infrastructure to continue to scale as models get better and better. The Agent team is a mix of AI Researchers and Software Engineers committed to our mission to make video editing accessible to anyone. Your peers will be based in San Francisco, New York, and distributed across the US and Canada. This is the role for you if any of the following areas sound exciting: Experimentation to push the limits on quality for our video editing agent (eg. harness and tool design, token/context optimizations, RL/new model development, multimodal, etc) Building a best-in-class product experience for agentic video editing interactions and improving user retention (eg. tuning prompt templates and other key user workflows, addressing user feedback, building key product capabilities like chat history, etc) Laying the foundations for a best-in-class developer experience for building agents (eg. logging, evals framework, online monitoring and feedback loops, etc) What you bring: Minimum Qualifications 3+ years of professional product engineering or fullstack experience Worked with Typescript, React, and RESTful APIs (or similar) Solid CS fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, databases (Postgres, Redis) High ownership and growth mindset You thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy working with other functions (e.g. product, design, AI research) Experience building creative tools in the past or you're a frequent user of creative media tools. If you join Descript, you'll end up making lots of videos! Experience building agents, working evals infrastructure, or designing product experiences powered by LLMs Studies show that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification above, please apply anyways. At our current size and stage, we embrace a flat organizational structure and value the expertise and contributions of every team member. As such, we have a unified job title for our engineering roles where everyone, including those with Staff-level scope, is considered a Software Engineer. While titles may not change, we are actively seeking Software Engineers with senior-or-higher-equivalent experience to join our team. The base salary range for these roles is $174,000-$286,000/year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, location, level, and may vary from the amount above. Descript is the special company that's in possession of both product market fit and the raw materials (passionate user community, great product, large market) for growth, but is still early enough that each new employee has a measurable influence on the direction of the company. Benefits include a generous healthcare package, 401k matching program, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time. Our headquarters are located in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. We're hiring for a mix of remote roles and hybrid roles. For those who are remote, we have a handful of opportunities throughout the year for in person collaboration. For our hybrid roles, we're flexible, and you're an adult-we don't expect or mandate that you're in the office every day. We do believe there are valuable and serendipitous moments of discovery and collaboration that come from working together in person. Descript is an equal opportunity workplace-we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We believe in actively building a team rich in diverse backgrounds, experiences, and opinions to better allow our employees, products, and community to thrive.
Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform and Enablement About the Role We're building a next generation AI powered platform and web application for creating audio and video content quickly and easily. This involves developing a revolutionary way to record, transcribe, edit, and mix audio and video on the web using state of the art AI models-a challenge that requires solving complex technical problems. We're hiring a senior engineer to join our AI Platform and Enablement team. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast moving, high ownership environment and is comfortable navigating the ambiguity of bringing research work into an established product. About the Team The team's objective is to support integrating cutting edge first party models (developed by our in house AI Research team) and third party/open source AI models into the Descript product. In this role, you will: Build, maintain, and standardize third party model integrations, including consulting for other engineering generatingteams with AI model integration needs. Design, implement, and maintain our AI infrastructure supporting our machine learning life cycle, including data ingestion pipelines, training developer experience and infrastructure, evaluation frameworks, and deployments/GPU infrastructure. Collaborate with Product Managers, Research Engineers, and AI Researchers to understand their infrastructure needs and ensure our AI systems are robust, scalable, and efficient. Optimize and scale our models and algorithms for efficient inference. Deploy, monitor, and manage AI models in production. What you bring Minimum Qualifications Experience in deploying and managing AI models in production. Experience with large volume data pipeline tools like Spark, Flume, Dask, etc. Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes). Knowledge of DevOps and MLOps best practices. Strong problem solving abilities and excellent communication skills. Experience with generative AI models. Familiarity with audio and video processing. Knowledge of Python, C/C++, CUDA, and experience profiling GPU performance and distributed training runs. Experience with machine learning frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, or similar. Studies show that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification above, please apply anyway. The base salary range for these roles is $180,000 - $286,000 per year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, location, level, and may vary from the amount above. Benefits include a generous healthcare package, 401(k) matching program, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time. Our headquarters are located in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. We're hiring for a mix of remote and hybrid roles: remote candidates can collaborate in person during occasional in person sessions, while hybrid roles are flexible-there is no daily office requirement, but we value the serendipity of face to face collaboration. Descript is an equal opportunity workplace. We are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status. We actively build a team rich in diverse backgrounds, experiences, and opinions to better allow our employees, products, and community to thrive.
04/02/2026
Full time
Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform and Enablement About the Role We're building a next generation AI powered platform and web application for creating audio and video content quickly and easily. This involves developing a revolutionary way to record, transcribe, edit, and mix audio and video on the web using state of the art AI models-a challenge that requires solving complex technical problems. We're hiring a senior engineer to join our AI Platform and Enablement team. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast moving, high ownership environment and is comfortable navigating the ambiguity of bringing research work into an established product. About the Team The team's objective is to support integrating cutting edge first party models (developed by our in house AI Research team) and third party/open source AI models into the Descript product. In this role, you will: Build, maintain, and standardize third party model integrations, including consulting for other engineering generatingteams with AI model integration needs. Design, implement, and maintain our AI infrastructure supporting our machine learning life cycle, including data ingestion pipelines, training developer experience and infrastructure, evaluation frameworks, and deployments/GPU infrastructure. Collaborate with Product Managers, Research Engineers, and AI Researchers to understand their infrastructure needs and ensure our AI systems are robust, scalable, and efficient. Optimize and scale our models and algorithms for efficient inference. Deploy, monitor, and manage AI models in production. What you bring Minimum Qualifications Experience in deploying and managing AI models in production. Experience with large volume data pipeline tools like Spark, Flume, Dask, etc. Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes). Knowledge of DevOps and MLOps best practices. Strong problem solving abilities and excellent communication skills. Experience with generative AI models. Familiarity with audio and video processing. Knowledge of Python, C/C++, CUDA, and experience profiling GPU performance and distributed training runs. Experience with machine learning frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, or similar. Studies show that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification above, please apply anyway. The base salary range for these roles is $180,000 - $286,000 per year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, location, level, and may vary from the amount above. Benefits include a generous healthcare package, 401(k) matching program, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time. Our headquarters are located in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. We're hiring for a mix of remote and hybrid roles: remote candidates can collaborate in person during occasional in person sessions, while hybrid roles are flexible-there is no daily office requirement, but we value the serendipity of face to face collaboration. Descript is an equal opportunity workplace. We are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status. We actively build a team rich in diverse backgrounds, experiences, and opinions to better allow our employees, products, and community to thrive.
A technology company specializing in AI tools is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its AI Platform and Enablement team in San Francisco. This role involves developing integration for AI models and systems, collaborating with various teams, and deploying models in a production environment. The ideal candidate should have strong problem-solving skills, experience with AI models, and familiarity with tools like Docker and Kubernetes. The company offers a flexible hybrid work model and a competitive salary range of $180K to $286K.
04/02/2026
Full time
A technology company specializing in AI tools is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its AI Platform and Enablement team in San Francisco. This role involves developing integration for AI models and systems, collaborating with various teams, and deploying models in a production environment. The ideal candidate should have strong problem-solving skills, experience with AI models, and familiarity with tools like Docker and Kubernetes. The company offers a flexible hybrid work model and a competitive salary range of $180K to $286K.
Overview We are building the next-generation AI-powered platform and web application for easy and fast creation of audio and video content. Building a revolutionary way to record, transcribe, edit, and mix audio and video on the web comes with a series of unique technical challenges and requires solving hard and complex problems. We are looking for an experienced software engineer to build a best-in-class video editing and streaming platform to power the core editing and AI functionality of the app. About the team: Descript's editor product makes the creation of high quality video and audio content accessible to anyone. The product, which was originally geared towards podcasters, has grown into a broad suite of editing tools that support a wide range of use cases. The Editor team is responsible for building the product experiences that will continue to expand the capabilities of the editing experience and enable even more people to experience the ease and joy of producing content with Descript. What you bring 5+ years of professional fullstack software engineering experience. Expertise in Typescript, React, and RESTful APIs Solid CS fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, databases (Postgres, Redis) Experience building creative tools in the past or you're a frequent user of creative media tools A desire to have a high degree of ownership and accountability A deep understanding of system design principles and are effective at understanding and integrating customer needs into your decisions The ability to thrive in collaborative environments including when working with other functions (e.g. product, design, research, AI engineering) What the team is working on As the owners of the core editing experience, the Editor team's work covers a broad range of features. Building traditional editing functionality (e.g. timeline editing, effects & animations) Integrating in-house (e.g. studio audio) and third-party AI functionality to supercharge any user's ability to make excellent video and audio content Supporting the data model and systems that manage the state of projects across clients Building media management features that enable organizations to build on Descript as a team This team might be a good fit for you if You're excited to work on creative tools where users' workflows are varied and complex You're energized by having a high degree of ownership and accountability You like to own technical solutions and are also passionate about making the best product experience possible for the user You thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy working with other functions (e.g. product, design, research, AI engineering) At our current size and stage, we embrace a flat organizational structure and value the expertise and contributions of every team member. As such, we have a unified job title for our engineering roles where everyone, including those with Staff-level scope, is considered a Software Engineer. While titles may not change, we are actively seeking Software Engineers with senior-or-higher-equivalent experience to join our team. The base salary range for this role is $212,000-$250,000/year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, location, and may vary from the amount above. Descript is the special company that's in possession of both product market fit and the raw materials (passionate user community, great product, large market) for growth, but is still early enough that each new employee has a measurable influence on the direction of the company. Benefits include a generous healthcare package, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time. Our headquarters are located in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. We're looking to hire people who are local and able to join us at the office when needed. We're flexible, and you're an adult-we don't expect or mandate that you're in the office every day. But we do believe there are valuable and serendipitous moments of discovery and collaboration that come from working together in person. Equal opportunity Descript is an equal opportunity workplace-we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We believe in actively building a team rich in diverse backgrounds, experiences, and opinions to better allow our employees, products, and community to thrive.
04/02/2026
Full time
Overview We are building the next-generation AI-powered platform and web application for easy and fast creation of audio and video content. Building a revolutionary way to record, transcribe, edit, and mix audio and video on the web comes with a series of unique technical challenges and requires solving hard and complex problems. We are looking for an experienced software engineer to build a best-in-class video editing and streaming platform to power the core editing and AI functionality of the app. About the team: Descript's editor product makes the creation of high quality video and audio content accessible to anyone. The product, which was originally geared towards podcasters, has grown into a broad suite of editing tools that support a wide range of use cases. The Editor team is responsible for building the product experiences that will continue to expand the capabilities of the editing experience and enable even more people to experience the ease and joy of producing content with Descript. What you bring 5+ years of professional fullstack software engineering experience. Expertise in Typescript, React, and RESTful APIs Solid CS fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, databases (Postgres, Redis) Experience building creative tools in the past or you're a frequent user of creative media tools A desire to have a high degree of ownership and accountability A deep understanding of system design principles and are effective at understanding and integrating customer needs into your decisions The ability to thrive in collaborative environments including when working with other functions (e.g. product, design, research, AI engineering) What the team is working on As the owners of the core editing experience, the Editor team's work covers a broad range of features. Building traditional editing functionality (e.g. timeline editing, effects & animations) Integrating in-house (e.g. studio audio) and third-party AI functionality to supercharge any user's ability to make excellent video and audio content Supporting the data model and systems that manage the state of projects across clients Building media management features that enable organizations to build on Descript as a team This team might be a good fit for you if You're excited to work on creative tools where users' workflows are varied and complex You're energized by having a high degree of ownership and accountability You like to own technical solutions and are also passionate about making the best product experience possible for the user You thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy working with other functions (e.g. product, design, research, AI engineering) At our current size and stage, we embrace a flat organizational structure and value the expertise and contributions of every team member. As such, we have a unified job title for our engineering roles where everyone, including those with Staff-level scope, is considered a Software Engineer. While titles may not change, we are actively seeking Software Engineers with senior-or-higher-equivalent experience to join our team. The base salary range for this role is $212,000-$250,000/year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, location, and may vary from the amount above. Descript is the special company that's in possession of both product market fit and the raw materials (passionate user community, great product, large market) for growth, but is still early enough that each new employee has a measurable influence on the direction of the company. Benefits include a generous healthcare package, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time. Our headquarters are located in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. We're looking to hire people who are local and able to join us at the office when needed. We're flexible, and you're an adult-we don't expect or mandate that you're in the office every day. But we do believe there are valuable and serendipitous moments of discovery and collaboration that come from working together in person. Equal opportunity Descript is an equal opportunity workplace-we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We believe in actively building a team rich in diverse backgrounds, experiences, and opinions to better allow our employees, products, and community to thrive.
A leading video editing company in San Francisco is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to build a cutting-edge video editing platform. This role requires expertise in Typescript, React, and RESTful APIs, along with a strong foundation in software engineering principles. The position offers a competitive salary and flexible working conditions, promoting collaboration and creativity within the team.
04/02/2026
Full time
A leading video editing company in San Francisco is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to build a cutting-edge video editing platform. This role requires expertise in Typescript, React, and RESTful APIs, along with a strong foundation in software engineering principles. The position offers a competitive salary and flexible working conditions, promoting collaboration and creativity within the team.
About Us Descript is on a mission to make audio and video content creation and editing fast, easy, and accessible to all. We are building a cutting-edge media editor incorporating real time collaboration, ground-breaking UX, and cutting-edge AI. This is the future of media! At Descript, we believe that software engineers should own the reliability and performance of what they ship to production, so as an Infrastructure Engineer, you will drive projects that let engineers better understand and improve the performance, availability, and quality of what they ship. In addition, you will be owning and improving the core production infrastructure and building blocks upon which other engineers depend. We are looking for people who have good systems fundamentals, a desire to teach and advise colleagues, and the ability to make strategic decisions. As one of the early members of the Infrastructure team, you will be shaping what reliability looks like at Descript as we grow. If you love the idea of working closely with engineering leadership to build a product that users love, this may be the role for you! Responsibilities Develop technical and business solutions that enable engineers to improve the quality and reliability of product features and systems that they build. Drive improvements to the reliability of our core infrastructure, such as production clusters, networking, databases, and observability systems. Champion best practices during reviews of code, technical designs, and launch plans. Own our incident management and fire drill processes. Work with engineering leadership to set goals and prioritize production reliability. Requirements 5+ years experience in production/site-reliability engineering OR 5+ years of server-side software engineering with an interest in working on core infrastructure A solid understanding of at least two of: public cloud infrastructure, Linux systems administration, and DevOps tooling. Basic coding skills to work on automation and technical guardrails. Strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to collaborate with other functions Experience mentoring engineers, including code reviews, architecture discussions, and leadership skills Nice to Have Experience with: TypeScript Kubernetes Google Cloud Platform Terraform The base salary range for this role is $191K-$250K. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, and location, and they may vary from the amount above. Benefits include a generous healthcare package, 401k matching program, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time. Our headquarters are located in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. We're hiring for a mix of remote roles and hybrid roles. For those who are remote, we have a handful of opportunities throughout the year for in person collaboration. For our hybrid roles, we're flexible, and you're an adult-we don't expect or mandate that you're in the office every day. We do believe there are valuable and serendipitous moments of discovery and collaboration that come from working together in person. Descript is an equal opportunity workplace-we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We believe in actively building a team rich in diverse backgrounds, experiences, and opinions to better allow our employees, products, and community to thrive.
04/02/2026
Full time
About Us Descript is on a mission to make audio and video content creation and editing fast, easy, and accessible to all. We are building a cutting-edge media editor incorporating real time collaboration, ground-breaking UX, and cutting-edge AI. This is the future of media! At Descript, we believe that software engineers should own the reliability and performance of what they ship to production, so as an Infrastructure Engineer, you will drive projects that let engineers better understand and improve the performance, availability, and quality of what they ship. In addition, you will be owning and improving the core production infrastructure and building blocks upon which other engineers depend. We are looking for people who have good systems fundamentals, a desire to teach and advise colleagues, and the ability to make strategic decisions. As one of the early members of the Infrastructure team, you will be shaping what reliability looks like at Descript as we grow. If you love the idea of working closely with engineering leadership to build a product that users love, this may be the role for you! Responsibilities Develop technical and business solutions that enable engineers to improve the quality and reliability of product features and systems that they build. Drive improvements to the reliability of our core infrastructure, such as production clusters, networking, databases, and observability systems. Champion best practices during reviews of code, technical designs, and launch plans. Own our incident management and fire drill processes. Work with engineering leadership to set goals and prioritize production reliability. Requirements 5+ years experience in production/site-reliability engineering OR 5+ years of server-side software engineering with an interest in working on core infrastructure A solid understanding of at least two of: public cloud infrastructure, Linux systems administration, and DevOps tooling. Basic coding skills to work on automation and technical guardrails. Strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to collaborate with other functions Experience mentoring engineers, including code reviews, architecture discussions, and leadership skills Nice to Have Experience with: TypeScript Kubernetes Google Cloud Platform Terraform The base salary range for this role is $191K-$250K. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, and location, and they may vary from the amount above. Benefits include a generous healthcare package, 401k matching program, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time. Our headquarters are located in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. We're hiring for a mix of remote roles and hybrid roles. For those who are remote, we have a handful of opportunities throughout the year for in person collaboration. For our hybrid roles, we're flexible, and you're an adult-we don't expect or mandate that you're in the office every day. We do believe there are valuable and serendipitous moments of discovery and collaboration that come from working together in person. Descript is an equal opportunity workplace-we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We believe in actively building a team rich in diverse backgrounds, experiences, and opinions to better allow our employees, products, and community to thrive.