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Reality Defender (YC W22)

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11 - 50 employees

🔐 Security

📱 Media

AI • Security • Media

Reality Defender is a company that provides multi-model and multimodal platforms for detecting AI-generated content. It offers services to enterprises, governments, and platforms to detect deepfakes and synthetic media across various modalities such as audio, video, images, and text. The solutions are designed to protect against the rapidly growing threat of AI-generated content used for fraud and disinformation. Reality Defender's tools are probabilistic, meaning they do not rely on watermarks or prior authentication to verify authenticity. The company focuses on industries like media, finance, and government to safeguard against AI-generated threats.

📋 Description

• Investigate and propose new methods for detecting generative multi-modal content, spanning audio and vision modalities. • Perform research on multi-modal deepfake detection and reasoning tasks. • Collaborate with researchers in the team. • Write up results of research for internal reports and submission to academic journals/workshops. • Independently implement and evaluate ideas on modern deep learning stack - Python, PyTorch, and GPU-enabled cloud compute, like AWS/GCP.

🎯 Requirements

• PhD student in a relevant technical field, preferably three or more years into the program • Experience in multi-modal learning, such as in audio-visual classification and audio-language reasoning. • Proficient in Python and in building deep learning models with PyTorch. • Published peer-reviewed research papers in reputable AI and speech venues, e.g. CVPR, NeurIPS, ACL, Interspeech. • Excited about Reality Defender's mission to build a best-in-class and comprehensive deepfake and AI-generated content detection platform. • Available to start in Spring 2026, for a minimum duration of 3 months.

🏖️ 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