We are seeking an Applied AI Engineer II (Audio) to build, tune, and deploy state-of-the-art audio deepfake detection models in real-world client environments.
You will be responsible primarily for model tuning and deployment, ensuring robustness, reliability, and performance under diverse real-world test conditions — including adversarial and edge-case scenarios. The role requires deep hands-on expertise in model building, training, and benchmarking.
What You'll Do
Tune and optimize ML/DL models for production-scale audio deepfake detection.
Investigate failure cases in the client environment, build custom evaluation frameworks, and implement mitigation strategies for model robustness.
Drive model iteration for performance under a variety of real-world environments, e.g. compression artifacts, noise, telephony, and streaming pipelines.
Present technical findings and model performance insights to internal stakeholders.
Interface with Product and Engineering teams to build a deep understanding of the production environment and incorporate relevant evaluations for performance assessment.
Who You Are
Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, or related field.
Fresh PhD graduate, or Masters with 3+ years of industry experience building and deploying ML/DL models for AI products.
Strong programming skills in Python and model ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX).
Solid understanding of audio processing fundamentals, classification and detection metrics (ROC, DET curves, precision/recall trade-offs), model robustness and evaluation.
Experience with large-scale training and benchmarking pipelines, either in an academic or an industry research role.
What We Offer
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
For employees working from Reality Defender's HQ in NYC, we offer the following benefits:
Daily in-office lunch through UberEats
Commuter benefits
Remote Fridays
Happy Hours and other local events