Applied Research Scientist, AI Research
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Descript's AI Research team is looking for an Applied Research Scientist to focus on multimodal understanding and perception for their AI editing agent, Underlord.
This role bridges cutting-edge machine learning research with direct product impact, requiring you to take models from prototype to production rather than purely writing academic papers.
The ideal candidate has strong PyTorch skills, a track record of deep learning innovation through publications or shipped features, and the ability to execute experiments rapidly.
Candidates should possess a graduate degree in deep learning or equivalent experience, with senior levels expected to drive independent research direction and mentor others.
Role Responsibilities
- 1Build vision-language systems that enable agentic editing features to reason over visual and audio content.
- 2Design benchmarks and evaluation frameworks to make editorial quality measurable while balancing cost and latency.
- 3Build datasets, including synthetic data generation, to support model training.
- 4Train specialized models from scratch or fine-tune existing foundation models.
- 5Collaborate with agent and engineering teams to take models from prototype to production.
- 6Identify and set new research directions that translate into product features.
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