Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform and Enablement

San Francisco, United StatesOn-site

Responsibilities

Build, maintain, and standardize third-party model integrations, including consulting for other engineering teams with AI model integration needs
Design, implement, and maintain our AI infrastructure supporting our machine learning life cycle, including data ingestion pipelines, training developer
Collaborate with Product Managers, Research Engineers, and AI Researchers to understand their infrastructure needs and ensure our AI systems are robust, scalable, and efficient
Optimize and scale our models and algorithms for efficient inference
Deploy, monitor, and manage AI models in production What you bring: Minimum

We're building a next-generation AI-powered platform and web application for creating audio and video content quickly and easily.
This involves developing a revolutionary way to record, transcribe, edit, and mix audio and video on the web using state-of-the-art AI models—a challenge that requires solving complex technical problems.
We're hiring a senior engineer to join our AI Platform and Enablement team.
The team’s objective is to support integrating cutting-edge first-party models (developed by our in-house AI Research team) and third-party/open source AI models into the Descript product.
experience and infrastructure, evaluation frameworks, and deployments / GPU infrastructure
Experience in deploying and managing AI models in production •
Experience with the tools of large volume data pipelines like spark, flume, dask, etc.
Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
Knowledge of DevOps and MLOps best practices
Experience with generative AI models
Familiarity with audio and video processing
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
Descript is building a simple, intuitive, fully-powered editing tool for video and audio — an editing tool built for the age of AI.