Descript

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.

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.

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.

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.

The role focuses on leveraging AI and machine learning to enhance marketing analytics, automate decision-making, and build predictive models for user behavior and conversion. It involves developing measurement frameworks, optimizing performance, and creating AI-powered tools for marketing insights and forecasting.

This role is for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Descript, a company focused on AI-powered audio and video content creation. The engineer will own and improve core production infrastructure, focusing on reliability, performance, availability, and quality. Responsibilities include developing solutions to enhance feature reliability, improving core infrastructure (clusters, networking, databases, observability), championing best practices, owning incident management, and working with leadership on production reliability goals. The role requires 5+ years of SRE or server-side engineering experience, strong systems fundamentals, and experience mentoring engineers. Nice-to-haves include experience with TypeScript, Kubernetes, GCP, and Terraform. The company uses AI in its media editor but this role is focused on the underlying infrastructure.

Software Engineer to build a best-in-class video editing and streaming platform that integrates AI functionality for content creation. Focuses on core editing experience and enabling users to make excellent video and audio content.

Senior Frontend Engineer, Marketing Web at Descript. This role focuses on owning and enhancing the marketing website, which is crucial for driving signups and supporting the enterprise sales motion. The engineer will set technical direction for the CMS and component system, improve release and QA processes, optimize Core Web Vitals and page speed, and manage analytics instrumentation. Responsibilities include building reusable components, maintaining A/B testing setups, ensuring technical quality (accessibility, SEO, cross-browser compatibility), and enabling self-serve content workflows. The role requires strong frontend skills, experience with headless CMS, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Next.js, and web performance optimization, with comfort in full-stack tasks.

Senior/Staff Software Engineer for the Growth team at Descript, focusing on building systems for user journey personalization, data pipelines, and experimentation. The role involves full-stack development (React, TypeScript, APIs) and owning A/B tests from hypothesis to analysis. Requires strong software engineering experience, A/B testing knowledge, and a focus on business outcomes.

Senior Software Engineer role focused on client platform development at Descript, a company building an AI-powered media editor. The role involves owning React usage, evolving the design system, improving app performance, enhancing testing strategies, and enabling other engineers. Requires deep expertise in React, platform/infrastructure experience, and client-side performance tuning.