Applied Research Scientist, AI Research is open at Descript in San Francisco, CA or Remote, US. The posting gives a salary of $197K - $262K. Posted on Aug 24, 2026, and still on Descript’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Multimodal understanding: build vision-language systems that let Descript's agentic editing features reason over the visual and audio content of a project. Evaluation: design the benchmarks and evals that make editorial quality measurable, and that balance quality against cost and latency. Data: build the datasets your work depends on, including synthetic data generation where real examples don't exist at scale…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Descript’s careers page.
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