Apply to DescriptWhat You’ll Do
- Design, implement, and maintain our AI infrastructure supporting our machine learning life cycle, including data ingestion, training, evaluation, and deployment.
- Collaborate with Machine Learning Engineers and Data Scientists to understand their infrastructure needs and ensure our AI systems are robust, scalable, and efficient.
- Work on optimizing and scaling of our models and algorithms for efficient inference.
- Deploy, monitor, and manage AI models in production.
- Implement rigorous security protocols to protect sensitive data and prevent abuse.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive product requirements and improve our AI platform.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies, and be ready to present potential use cases to the team.
What You Bring
- Experience in deploying and managing AI models in production.
- Knowledge of Python, C/C++, CUDA, and experience profiling GPU performance and distributed training runs.
- Experience with machine learning frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow or similar.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Strong problem-solving abilities and excellent communication skills.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with generative AI models.
- Familiarity with audio and video processing.
- Knowledge of DevOps best practices.
At our current size and stage, we embrace a flat organizational structure and value the expertise and contributions of every team member. As such, we have a unified job title for our engineering roles where everyone, including those with Staff-level scope, is considered a Software Engineer. While titles may not change, we are actively seeking senior and above Software Engineers to join our team.
The base salary range for this role is $160,000- $215,000/year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, location, and may vary from the amount above.
Benefits include a generous healthcare package, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time. We currently have offices in San Francisco and Montreal, and are open to folks working remotely between PT and ET time zones. Whether you love WFH or can’t wait to get back to being in person, we're interested in offering an environment that works for you.
Descript is an equal opportunity workplace—we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We believe in actively building a team rich in diverse backgrounds, experiences, and opinions to better allow our employees, products, and community to thrive.
Descript is building a simple, intuitive, fully-powered editing tool for video and audio — an editing tool built for the age of AI. We are a team of 125 — with a proven CEO and the backing of some of the world's greatest investors (OpenAI, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, Spark Capital).
Descript is the special company that's in possession of both product market fit and the raw materials (passionate user community, great product, large market) for growth, but is still early enough that each new employee has a measurable influence on the direction of the company.