Applied Scientist Internship, Reality Defender

Audio Model Interpretation

Salary not provided

Python

PyTorch

Remote from US

Enterprise-grade deepfake detection

Job no longer available

Enterprise-grade deepfake detection

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSecurityPrivacyIdentity

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

Python

PyTorch

Remote from US

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSecurityPrivacyIdentity

Company mission

To help companies, governments, and journalists determine if media is real or fake, focusing on audio, video and image manipulation.

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Company

Role

Who you are

Currently enrolled in a PhD program in speech or audio processing, deep learning, or a related fieldImp
Lemented and/or published peer-reviewed research papers in reputable AI research venues such as NeurIPS, ICLR, *ACL, Interspeech
Have 1+ years of hands-on experience with model interpretation tools, e.g., Grad-CAM, SHAP, etc
Have 1+ years of programming experience in Python and model building in PyTorch, preferably for audio processing such as HuBERT, wav2vec, and related models
Team player with a positive attitude and good communication skills
Excited about our line of work and can start immediately

What the job involves

Reality Defender seeks an Applied Scientist Intern to build model interpretation and decision attribution algorithms for our Generative Audio Detection models
Investigate saliency and activation mapping techniques on different forms of audio representations, e.g, spectrograms and acoustic features (pitch, formants, etc.)
Build insights for decision attribution on audio inputs, e.g., identify the most impactful segments within an audio towards a classification outcome
Prepare a custom interpretation library for our generative audio detection models
Propose novel end-to-end solutions and publish the research
Collaborate with scientists and engineers across the organization

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 early-stage startup.

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Company benefits

Healthcare plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and partial coverage available for dependents
Dental and Vision plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and their dependents
Short/Long-term disability and life insurance plans with 100% premium coverage for employees
FSA/HSA and 401k programs
Equity compensation
20 days of PTO per year
12 weeks of Parental Leave
Learning and Development budget
Monthly wellness benefits
Annual company-sponsored offsite

Company HQ

Manhattan, New York, NY

Leadership

Gaurav Bharaj

(Co-Founder & Advisor)

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 & Advisor)

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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