Senior Quality Engineer, Descript
$138-170k
AI video & podcast editor
Job no longer available
AI video & podcast editor
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$138-170k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make it easy for anyone o record, edit, and share any video.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years experience testing web and desktop applications, ideally consumer-facing
- 2+ years experience as a test lead on a team, product area, or feature
- Full understanding of the product development lifecycle and experience writing test plans and manually testing software
- Experience testing on both Mac & Windows
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
Desirable
- Experience testing AI models, products, or services
- Experience in video editing tools
- Personal or professional experience working with creative tools, especially for audio and video production
What the job involves
- Create, maintain, and execute test cases to prevent regressions and identify new bugs in advance of new product releases
- Triage, review, and schedule bugs and quality issues, gathering insights and providing information to Engineering teams on overall quality and areas of improvement
- Lead release testing process on a rotating basis, ensuring critical issues are resolved, communicating across teams, and approving releases to Production
- Ensure performance and compatibility requirements are met across a range of operating systems, hardware devices, and third-party applications
- Work with external QA teams to provide test cases and documentation for ongoing regression testing
- Investigate vaguely reported customer problems and translate them into bugs that can be reliably reproduced by Descript's engineering team
Our take
The rise of digital content has made video and audio creation more important than ever, but producing polished media can still be quite complex. Descript makes editing accessible to anyone, simplifying recording, editing, and publishing. And its platform empowers over 7M users to bring ideas to life without needing advanced technical skills.
Descript's standout feature is its AI co-editor, Underlord, which lets users create and edit videos just by describing what they want,. It can generate rough cuts, add visuals and B-roll, apply AI effects, and format content for social media. While many creators are still wary of AI in content creation, Descript has built its tools to augment human creativity, giving users control while handling the heavy lifting.
Serving millions of creators and businesses worldwide, Descript keeps innovating with AI features that learn from user input. By combining intuitive tools with responsible AI, the platform is helping content creators work faster and smarter, reshaping video and audio production while keeping the creative vision firmly in human hands.
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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
- Health: We’ve got you covered with medical, dental, and vision benefits for all employees and their dependents. These include HMO and PPO healthcare plans
- Time off: Paid holidays are a given, but you can also expect flexible time off. Feel comfortable to take the time you need, when you need it.
- Parental leave: New parents receive paid parental leave to spend quality time with their expanding families.
- Home-office stipend: Get your work-from-home setup ready with our home-office stipend.
- Retirement: We offer a variety of retirement plans, including employer matching.
- Free food & refreshments: Come say hey! Visit our office for free lunch, snacks, and drinks.
- Destination off-sites: No matter where you work, you’ll get to know your team. We host two annual gatherings: a company-wide off-site and a team-specific off-site.
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Laura Burkhauser
(CEO)Laura joined Descript in 2023 as a VP of Product and became CEO in 2025. Prior to this, she was a Director of Product Management at Twitter and Rent The Runway.
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