Descript is 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.
Requirements
- Strong CS fundamentals, backend infrastructure experience, and understanding of digital video technologies, including formats, codecs, and processing tools (e.g. MP4, HVEC, HLS, WebRTC, MPEG-DASH, ffmpeg)
Responsibilities
- Build and optimize high availability, high performance systems to handle petabyte-scale data ingest, processing, and serving
- Provide a useful media platform to AI research and engineering teams train and integrate AI features that work on media, including multimodal LLMs, video transformation models, and information
- Engage with the open-source media and video engineering community to improve key tools like ffmpeg
- Develop tools to develop, test, benchmark, and debug our video and audio processing systems
- Discover, evaluate, and adopt new technologies that can enhance our services and/or improve our efficiency
- Mentor members on the engineering team, especially when it comes to video and audio technologies
Other
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- Self-aware of strengths and seeking to constantly learn and improve
- Strong written and verbal communication
- 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.
