Job Description

Overview

Our vision is to build the next-generation platform for fast and easy creation of audio and video content. We launched Storyboard in November 2022 as the video editing foundation and plan to enhance it with AI capabilities. We work with leading podcasters, influencers, and companies such as BBC, ESPN, HubSpot, Shopify, and Washington Post. Descript has raised $100M from top investors including Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI Startup Fund, Redpoint Ventures and Spark Capital.

Were looking for talented applied research scientists to join our team of researchers focused on generative models and deep learning. This role can be remote in the US or based in the SF Bay Area.

Responsibilities

• Oversee research process implementation, from problem definition to running and analyzing concrete research experiments.
• Collaborate and communicate clearly with the team about status, results, and challenges of current tasks.
• Contribute to designing the research roadmap of the company.
• Train and mentor other members of the team.
• Own the research function of specific product features.

As a core member of our research team, you will work on challenges such as:

• Using deep learning (including NLP, speech processing, computer vision, etc.) to solve problems for media creation and editing.
• Creating realistic voice doubles using only a few minutes of audio.
• Creating tools to synthesize photo-realistic videos that match our Overdub (personalized speech synthesis) feature.
• Designing and developing new algorithms for media synthesis, anomaly detection, speech recognition, speech enhancement, filler word detection, audio and video tagging, etc.
• Exploring new research directions to improve our product.

Requirements

• Proven experience in designing and implementing deep learning algorithms.
• PhD or Masters degree specialized in Deep Learning or equivalent experience.
• Track record of developing new ideas in machine learning, demonstrated by one or more first author publications or projects.
• Strong programming skills and experience with deep learning frameworks.
• Ability to generate more ideas than you can implement and execute ideas efficiently once experiments are set up.
• Desire for ample GPU resources to run experiments and iterate quickly.
• Proficiency with PyTorch and TensorFlow.
• We do not require domain-specific knowledge in computer vision or speech processing.

• Lead author of an accepted publication in top conferences (e.g., ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, ICASSP, ICCV, CVPR, InterSpeech).
• Played a key role in shipping a production feature that uses deep learning as a key component.

The base salary range for this role is $190,000-$300,000 per year. Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors including prior experience, expertise, location, and may vary from the amount above.

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 value diversity and inclusion to help our employees, products, and community thrive.

Benefits and Location

Benefits include a generous healthcare package, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time. Our headquarters are in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. We encourage in-person collaboration but understand flexibility is important, and not all days require being in the office.

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