Senior Software Engineer, Agent

About the Role We are building the next-generation AI-powered platform and web application for easy and fast creation of audio and video content. Building a revolutionary way to record, transcribe, edit, and mix audio and video on the web comes with a series of unique technical challenges and requires solving hard and complex problems. We are hiring Software Engineers at the senior and staff levels to join a few open roles on our Agent team, focused on building the future of Agentic Video Editing! About the team: Descript's Agent launched in Open Beta in July 2025. Since then, we've been working on improving the user experience for chat-based editing, adding more capabilities into our agent, and improving our agent infrastructure to continue to scale as models get better and better. The Agent team is a mix of AI Researchers a