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.

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

• Optimise and scale our models and algorithms for efficient inference

• Deploy, monitor, and manage AI models in production

What You Bring

• 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.

Benefits

• Generous healthcare package

• 401k matching program

• Catered lunches

• Flexible vacation time

Fun fact about me: I love pineapple on pizza.

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