Descript is building the next-generation AI-powered platform and web application for easy and fast creation of audio and video content, which involves solving hard and complex technical challenges.
Requirements
- Worked with Typescript, React, and RESTful APIs (or similar)
- Solid CS fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, databases (Postgres, Redis)
- Experience building agents, working evals infrastructure, or designing product experiences powered by LLMs
Responsibilities
- 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)
Other
- Minimum 3+ years of professional product engineering or fullstack experience
- 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.
- 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 below, please apply anyways.
