Descript · 22 hours ago
Software Engineer, Agent
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$174K/yr - $286K/yr
3+ years expDescript is building an AI-powered platform for creating audio and video content. They are seeking Software Engineers to join their Agent team, focusing on enhancing user experience and building developer tools for video editing.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AudioConsumer SoftwareMusicSpeech RecognitionVideo Editing
Responsibilities
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)
Qualification
Required
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)
Preferred
Experience building creative tools in the past or you're a frequent user of creative media tools
Experience building agents, working evals infrastructure, or designing product experiences powered by LLMs
Benefits
Generous healthcare package
401k matching program
Catered lunches
Flexible vacation time
Company
Descript
Descript is a collaborative audio and video editor that transcribes audio to a text document for editing, training, and collaboration.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$100MKey Investors
OpenAISpark CapitalAndreessen Horowitz
2022-10-27Series C· $50M
2021-02-01Series B· $30M
2019-09-18Series A· $15M
Leadership Team
Sophie Hinkley
VP People
Andrew Mason
Executive Chair
Recent News
2025-11-24
International Business Times
2025-11-07
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