Description
About the Role
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