Applied Scientist Intern, Reality Defender
Audio
$5K – $8K per month
Enterprise-grade deepfake detection
Be an early applicant
Enterprise-grade deepfake detection
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$5K – $8K per month
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help companies, governments, and journalists determine if media is real or fake, focusing on audio, video and image manipulation.
Role
Who you are
- Currently enrolled in a PhD program with specialization in machine learning/deep learning, natural language processing, and/or speech processing
- 2+ years of experience with training/fine-tuning large models, esp. audio language models, speech foundation models, multi-modal foundation models
- Experience with end-to-end model building pipeline for ML tasks: dataset curation/cleaning, model implementation, benchmarking, and result analysis
- Familiarity with distributed multi-GPU training Prior experience with publications in reputable ML/Audio/NLP research venues, e.g. NeurIPS, Interspeech, ICASSP, ACL, EMNLP
What the job involves
- Explore and conceptualize novel methods to leverage different modalities (e.g., speech, text) for deepfake detection and relevant audio understanding tasks
- Perform fundamental and applied research to advance the current state-of-the-art on audio deepfake detection
- Build models with generalizability to unseen generative methods - Collaborate with scientists and engineers across the organization
- Summarize, publish, and present research findings
Our take
Reality Defender was born out of The AI Foundation to help protect the 2020 US Elections from the threat of deepfakes. It officially launched as a company in 2021, based in New York. Today there continues to be a genuine issue where the public cannot decipher what is true or false online due to the existence of easily-created deepfakes.
Reality Defender's platform empowers enterprises to highlight and flag fraudulent users and content found online. Its API and app also provide risk scoring, reporting, and forensics review.
Reality Defender was selected as part of Y Combinator’s 2022 batch, the same backing received by Monzo, Airbnb and Stripe in their early days. This backing paired with the founding team’s experience of over twenty years at Google, Goldman Sachs, and the Intelligence Community, as well as its 2023 award win, has worked well for this very early-stage startup.
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Company values
- Powered By Purpose: Reality Defender is not just a company,. We are a dedicated collective working to combat the most pressing digital threats in the modern era
- Championing Innovation: Detecting deepfakes at the highest level requires out-of-the-box thinking only our team can manage
- A Collaborative Spirit: We approach deepfakes with the mindset and thinking of a research lab, to combat the constantly evolving challenges of ever-advancing artificial intelligence
Company HQ
Manhattan, New York, NY
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Leadership
Gaurav Bharaj
(Co-Founder)Previously the Chief Science Officer at Flawless, the Vice President of Research for The AI Foundation and a Senior Researcher for Technicolor.
Ali Shahriyari
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously acted as the Director of Product for The AI Foundation and as a Vice President for Originate.
Ben Colman
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founded PlaceAVote. Previously acted as NYC Lead for Xoogler.co, CEO for Convertix, and Vice President for Goldman Sachs.
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