Staff Applied Research Scientist, Descript
$190-300k
Collaborative audio and video editor
Open for applications
Collaborative audio and video editor
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$190-300k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make video a staple of every communicator's toolkit, alongside docs and slides.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience in designing and implementing deep learning algorithms
- PhD or Master’s degree specialized in Deep Learning or equivalent experience
- Track record of developing new ideas in machine learning, as demonstrated by one or more first author publications or projects
- Good programming skills and experience with deep learning frameworks
- Ability to generate more ideas than you can implement
- Implementing a given idea is easy and efficient. Once the experiment set up is established, you’re able to implement many ideas per day, evaluate them, and organize your time to be productive and efficient
- You wish you had more GPUs to run all the experiments that you wanted!
- You know Pytorch/Tensorflow inside-out
- We do not require domain-specific knowledge in computer vision or speech-processing
- At least one of the following must be true for the applicant to be considered:
- Lead author of an accepted publication in one of the top conferences: ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, ICASSP, ICCV, CVPR, InterSpeech, etc
- Played a key role in shipping a feature in production which uses deep learning as a key component
What the job involves
- Oversee research process implementation, from problem definition all the way to running and analyzing concrete research experiments
- Collaborate and communicate clearly and efficiently with the rest of the team about the status, results, and challenges of your 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
- Using deep learning (including but not limited to 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
- Coming up with new research directions to improve our product
Our take
Descript offers podcasters, YouTubers and other content creators a series of modern tools for editing and transcribing audio and video files. It stands out from more traditional editing platforms by using modern tools like natural language processing and AI generated transcriptions.
One of its most newsworthy features is its transcription to audio editing software. Users can edit the AI generated transcription in text format, which is then reflected in the audio itself, and in the speaker's “natural" voice. Founded by Groupon founder and former CEO Andrew Mason in 2017, the company has experienced fast growth, and has already been used across the industry by outlets like the BBC, NPR, VICE, The Washington Post and The New York Times.
The company’s early success and future potential have been underlined in the form of substantial funding. The podcasting industry alone (which encompasses both video and audio) accounted for $22 billion. Descript, which continues to add intelligent and quality-shifting features, is well-positioned to capture this lucrative and growing market.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2022
$50m
SERIES C
Jan 2021
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- Generous healthcare package
- Unlimited vacation time
- Catered lunches
- Whether you love WFH or can’t wait to get back to being in person, we're interested in offering an environment that works for you
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Andrew Mason
(CEO)Studied at Northwestern University before founding Groupon in 2008. Was a Part-time Partner at Y Combinator and co-founder of Detour.com.
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