Senior Software Engineer, Agent

Descript is building a next-generation AI-powered platform for audio and video content creation. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Agent team, focusing on innovative video editing solutions and enhancing user experiences.

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)

Requirements:

• 5+ 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)
• 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