Descript currently has 7 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles are in the application stage, representing 43% of the openings, with an equal percentage also in the agents stage. Engineering is the primary function hiring for AI talent, with the United States being the dominant hiring country. Frequent tech tags include multimodal, evals, and model_serving, suggesting a focus on developing and deploying AI models.
Currently tracking 1 active AI role, with 6 new openings in the last 4 weeks. Primary focus: Ship · Engineering. Salary range $171k–$286k (avg $228k).
Descript currently has 2 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Engineering Manager, Agent, Product Manager, API & Platform. Most positions are in Product and Engineering.
Descript's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (100%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Descript is hiring AI talent in: United States (2 roles).
Job postings at Descript most frequently mention: Product Management, Decision Making, Apache Airflow, Sim-to-Real Transfer, Resource Management.
| Title | Stage | AI 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. | Agent | 8 |
| 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. | Agent | 8 |
| Senior Data Scientist, Marketing 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. | Agent | 5 |
| Product Manager, API & Platform Product Manager to own and build the API and developer platform for Descript's automated video editing capabilities, enabling programmatic import, AI-powered edits, and content export for media businesses. This role involves defining and growing a new business line, influencing AI editing capabilities, and shaping go-to-market strategy. | Agent | 5 |