Applied Research Scientist, AI Research

Role overview

We don't build general-purpose generative models. Everything we build is meant to ship, and most of it has, going from prototype to a production feature used by millions of creators within months. Giving it direct perception of the media it's working on is what will let it judge its own output and reason about the creative choices in an edit, not just the structure of a project. What you'll do Multimodal understanding: build vision-language systems that let Descript's agentic editing features reason over the visual and audio content of a project.