Software Engineer, Descript
Agent
$174-286k
Collaborative audio and video editor
Be an early applicant
Collaborative audio and video editor
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$174-286k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make video a staple of every communicator's toolkit, alongside docs and slides.
Role
Who you are
- This is the role for you if any of the following areas sound exciting:
- 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)
- 3+ years of professional product engineering or fullstack experience
- Worked with Typescript, React, and RESTful APIs (or similar)
- Solid CS fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, databases (Postgres, Redis)
- High ownership and growth mindset
- You thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy working with other functions (e.g. product, design, AI research)
Desirable
- Experience building creative tools in the past or you're a frequent user of creative media tools. If you join Descript, you'll end up making lots of videos!
- Experience building agents, working evals infrastructure, or designing product experiences powered by LLMs
What the job involves
- We are 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
- We are hiring Software Engineers at the mid-career, senior, and staff levels to join a number of open roles on our Agent team, focused on building the future of Agentic Video Editing!
- Descript's Agent launched in Open Beta in July 2025. Since then, we've been working on improving the user experience for chat-based editing, adding more capabilities into our agent, and improving our agent infrastructure to continue to scale as models get better and better
- The Agent team is a mix of AI Researchers and Software Engineers committed to our mission to make video editing accessible to anyone. Your peers will be based in San Francisco, New York, and distributed across the US and Canada
Our take
Descript offers podcasters, YouTubers and other content creators a series of modern tools for editing and transcribing audio and video files. It stands out from more traditional editing platforms by using modern tools like natural language processing and AI generated transcriptions.
One of its most newsworthy features is its transcription to audio editing software. Users can edit the AI generated transcription in text format, which is then reflected in the audio itself, and in the speaker's “natural" voice. Founded by Groupon founder and former CEO Andrew Mason in 2017, the company has experienced fast growth, and has already been used across the industry by outlets like the BBC, NPR, VICE, The Washington Post and The New York Times.
The company’s early success and future potential have been underlined in the form of substantial funding. The podcasting industry alone (which encompasses both video and audio) accounted for $22 billion. Descript, which continues to add intelligent and quality-shifting features, is well-positioned to capture this lucrative and growing market.
Steph
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Insights
30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2022
$50m
SERIES C
Jan 2021
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- Generous healthcare package
- Unlimited vacation time
- Catered lunches
- 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
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Andrew Mason
(CEO)Studied at Northwestern University before founding Groupon in 2008. Was a Part-time Partner at Y Combinator and co-founder of Detour.com.
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