Descript is looking to hire applied research scientists to help build cutting-edge AI technologies for their next-generation platform for fast and easy creation of audio and video content, including features like Overdub and Studio Sound.
Requirements
- Proven experience in designing and implementing deep learning algorithms.
- Track record of developing new ideas in machine learning, as demonstrated by one or more first author publications or projects.
- Good programming skills and experience with deep learning frameworks.
- You know Pytorch/Tensorflow inside-out
- Lead author of an accepted publication in one of the top conferences: ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, ICASSP, ICCV, CVPR, InterSpeech, etc.
- Played a key role in shipping a feature in production which uses deep learning as a key component.
Responsibilities
- Oversee research process implementation, from problem definition all the way to running and analyzing concrete research experiments.
- Contribute to designing the research roadmap of the company
- Own the research function of specific product features.
- Using deep learning (including but not limited to NLP, speech processing, computer vision, etc.) to solve problems for media creation and editing.
- Creating realistic voice doubles using only a few minutes of audio.
- Creating tools to synthesize photo-realistic videos that match our Overdub (personalized speech synthesis) feature.
- Designing and developing new algorithms for media synthesis, anomaly detection, speech recognition, speech enhancement, filler word detection, audio and video tagging etc.
Other
- Collaborate and communicate clearly and efficiently with the rest of the team about the status, results, and challenges of your current tasks.
- Train and mentor other members of the team.
- Ability to generate more ideas than you can implement.
- Implementing a given idea is easy and efficient. Once the experiment set up is established, you’re able to implement many ideas per day, evaluate them, and organize your time to be productive and efficient.
- You wish you had more GPUs to run all the experiments that you wanted!
