Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform and Enablement
About The Position
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 ideal candidate thrives in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment and is comfortable navigating the ambiguity of bringing research work into an established product. About the 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.
Requirements
- 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
- Strong problem-solving abilities and excellent communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- 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
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 experience and infrastructure, evaluation frameworks, and deployments / GPU infrastructure
- 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
Benefits
- generous healthcare package
- 401k matching program
- catered lunches
- flexible vacation time
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
101-250 employees
