Applied Scientist Intern (Audio Language Modeling)

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Salary: Not Specified

Reality Defender provides accurate, multi-modal AI-generated media detection solutions to enable enterprises and governments to identify and prevent fraud, disinformation, and harmful deepfakes in real time. As a Y Combinator graduate, Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs alumni, and backed by DCVC, Reality Defender is the first company to pioneer multi-modal and multi-model detection of AI-generated media. Our web app and platform-agnostic API built by our research-forward team ensures that our customers can swiftly and securely mitigate fraud and cybersecurity risks in real time with a frictionless, robust solution.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Company Information

• About Reality Defender: Reality Defender provides accurate, multi-modal AI-generated media detection solutions.
• Funding: Y Combinator graduate, Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs alumni, and backed by DCVC.
• Website: https://www.realitydefender.com/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-b9l6iK-i4