Engineering Manager, Agent
Lead a team building the world's best Agentic Video Editor, Underlord
Manage a team of 5-6 software engineers focused on building high-quality, cost-effective AI agents for video editing. Partner closely with engineering, product, design, and AI research teams to develop Underlord, Descript's Agentic Video Editor. Report to the Head of AI Engineering in a rapidly evolving technical landscape involving multimodal video processing.
Why This Role?
Partner closely with AI research teams on cutting-edge multimodal video agent development
Key Responsibilities
- Manage a team of 5-6 software engineers
- Report to the Head of AI Engineering
- Partner with engineering, product, design, and AI research teams
- Build high-quality, cost-effective AI agents for video editing
- Develop Underlord, Descript's Agentic Video Editor
Required Skills
Indonesia Context
- Working Hours Overlap:
- Flexible — work your own hours
Keywords
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Original description from NoDesk
About the Role Descript is revolutionizing how traditional editing methodologies and AI technologies come together in every part of the creation process (recording, transcribing, editing, and sharing) to make it faster and easier than ever to create high quality content. We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our Agent team, focused on building the world’s best Agentic Video Editor, Underlord. This is a rapidly changing landscape, and there are many unique technical challenges that come with building high quality, cost-effective Agents for handling the multimodal nature of video. You will manage a team of 5-6 software engineers, report to the Head of AI Engineering, and partner closely with others across engineering, product, design, and AI research teams.
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