Descript

Scaling

AI Frontier · AI audio/video editing

Currently tracking 6 active AI roles, up 33% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Ship · Engineering. Salary range $171k–$286k (avg $228k).

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Salary range · avg $228k
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Jobs (6)

6 AI · 25 total active
TitleStageFunctionLocationFirst seenAI score
Engineering Manager, Agent
Engineering Manager for Descript's Agent team, focused on building the Agentic Video Editor, Underlord. The role involves managing a team of 5-6 software engineers, driving product experience for agentic video editing, leading experimentation, strengthening Evals, and partnering with AI Research on exploratory improvements. The team is scaling its agent infrastructure and product experience.
AgentEngineeringSan Francisco, CA6w ago8
Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform and Enablement
Senior Software Engineer on the AI Platform and Enablement team at Descript, focusing on integrating and managing AI models (both first-party and third-party) into a next-generation AI-powered audio and video content creation platform. Responsibilities include building and maintaining model integrations, designing and implementing AI infrastructure (data pipelines, training, evaluation, deployment), optimizing inference, and collaborating with research and product teams.
ServePost-trainEngineeringRemoteJan 78
Senior Software Engineer, Agent
Senior Software Engineer on the Agent team at Descript, focused on building and scaling agentic video editing capabilities. The role involves improving user experience, agent infrastructure, and developer experience for building agents, with opportunities for experimentation in areas like harness and tool design, prompt optimization, and RL.
AgentEngineeringRemoteOct '258
Product Manager, AI Models
Product Manager to lead the AI Research and Enablement roadmap, focusing on integrating cutting-edge AI research with production ML infrastructure and product strategy. Responsibilities include making build vs. buy decisions, guiding research direction, owning the evals strategy, driving quality standards for AI models, and optimizing costs and infrastructure for AI capabilities. Requires experience in AI/ML product management, understanding of ML systems and LLMs, and experience with production AI/ML shipping, evals frameworks, training, and inference infrastructure.
ShipPost-trainProductSan Francisco, CAMay '258
Engineering Manager, Narrative Editing
Engineering Manager for the Narrative Editing team at Descript, focusing on integrating generative AI and script-based editing into video creation workflows. The role involves managing a team of software engineers, partnering with AI teams, and driving product quality and iteration for AI-powered features.
ShipPost-trainEngineeringSan Francisco, CAFeb 117
Product Manager, Editor
Product Manager for Descript's Narrative Editing team, focusing on features that help creators capture, edit, and perfect their stories using script-based editing and AI regeneration. The role involves understanding customer needs, guiding the product roadmap, and partnering with AI Research to launch new features.
ShipProductSan Francisco, CASep '257