Applied Scientist, Reality Defender

Core

$150-200k

+ Offers equity + Offers bonus

Python

PyTorch

Junior, Mid and Senior level

Remote in US

New York

Enterprise-grade deepfake detection

Open for applications

Enterprise-grade deepfake detection

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSecurityPrivacyIdentity

Open for applications

$150-200k

+ Offers equity + Offers bonus

Python

PyTorch

Junior, Mid and Senior level

Remote in US

New York

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.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

PhD or relevant industry experience in computer science, machine learning, or a related field
You have implemented and/or published papers at top AI research venues NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, etc. In-depth understanding of deep learning research
Excellent software development skills
Team player with a positive attitude and good communication skills

What the job involves

Work with scientists to improve classification performance of deepfake detectors across all modalities (image, video, audio, and text)
Build techniques to assess and improve deep learning classifier reliability, including unsupervised bias and adversarial robustness modeling. Independently implement and evaluate ideas on a modern deep learning stack (Python, PyTorch, and GPU-enabled cloud compute)
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 very early-stage startup.

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Company

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

Articles

Deepfakes - The Danger Of Artificial Intelligence That We Will Learn To Manage Better

Reality Defender 2020 Kicks Off to Protect US Elections from Deepfakes & Media Manipulation

ElevenLabs and Reality Defender Partner on AI Safety Initiative

New multilingual audio deepfake detection coming to Reality Defender

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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