Applied Research Scientist, AI Research

What you'll do:

• Generative media synthesis: building the models behind features like Video Regenerate, lipsync, and video translation.
• Zero-shot voice and roomtone cloning: realistic cloning from only a few minutes of reference audio.
• Multimodal understanding: vision-language systems that let Descript's agentic editing features reason over visual and audio content.

What you bring:

• Proven ability to design and implement deep learning algorithms, demonstrated by publications, open-source work, or shipped models.
• Strong programming skills and deep fluency in PyTorch and/or TensorFlow.
• A track record of generating new ideas in machine learning — you produce more ideas than you can implement.

How we work:

• We're a small team with outsized scope, and we run lean by design.
• You own problems end to end — framing, experiments, and analysis — rather than handing pieces off.
• Everyone here is expected to generate ideas faster than any one person could implement them, then pick well and move efficiently.