Applied Scientist II (Audio)

Reality Defender is an award-winning cybersecurity company seeking an Applied Scientist II to build, tune, and deploy state-of-the-art audio deepfake detection models in real-world client environments.

Requirements

• 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.

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
• Daily in-office lunch through UberEats
• Commuter benefits
• Remote Fridays
• Happy Hours and other local events