Applied Research Scientist, AI Research
Descript is hiring for Applied Research Scientist, AI Research in San Francisco, CA or Remote, US. Remote, Senior level. First seen August 25, 2026; open as of November 13, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.
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- Company
- Descript
- Where
- San Francisco, CA or Remote, US
- Arrangement
- Remote
- Level
- Senior
- First seen
- August 25, 2026
- Listed via
- Greenhouse
What the posting says
This role is focused on multimodal understanding: training models to perceive edited media the way a human video editor does. Underlord, our AI editing agent, reasons about a project largely through a textual representation of it. Giving it direct perception of the media it's working on is what will let it judge its own output and reason about the creative choices in an edit, not just the structure of a project. It's also an open research problem, since there's no settled way to represent or evaluate editorial craft, whether a cut lands or whether the pacing works. We have a unique dataset…
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