Research Scientist II – Deepfake Detection, Authentication (Video & Audio)

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $160k - $185k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧬 Research Scientist

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Pindrop

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2011

🛡️ Insurance

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

Insurance • Consulting • Healthcare

Pindrop is a leader in voice authentication and fraud detection, offering innovative solutions to enhance the security of voice communications. The company uses advanced technologies such as liveness detection, behavioral analysis, and voice biometrics to combat threats like deepfakes and spoofing in various sectors including banking, finance, insurance, and retail. Pindrop integrates with platforms like Five9 to provide multifactor authentication, ensuring both the protection of sensitive information and a seamless user experience. With a focus on securing call centers and smart devices, Pindrop helps businesses prevent fraud and improve customer interactions by leveraging cutting-edge audio, voice, and AI technologies. Their solutions are trusted by some of the largest financial institutions and insurance companies around the world.

📋 Description

• Independently drive research initiatives and deliver reproducible experimental results • Translate machine learning models into real-world product solutions across deepfake video, deepfake audio, and voice/identity authentication • Conduct research to develop and improve synthetic media detection, multimodal deepfake identification, and real-time identity authentication • Design, implement, and evaluate deep learning algorithms for audio-visual deepfake detection, speech synthesis detection, facial manipulation analysis, and biometric authentication • Develop and maintain internal research packages and pipelines for training, evaluating, and benchmarking ML models • Partner with research engineers and engineering teams to transition research prototypes into scalable production systems across cloud and edge platforms • Analyze model behavior, edge cases, attack vectors, and detection gaps to improve model robustness • Participate in code and research reviews, cross-functional project syncs, patents, and peer-reviewed papers

🎯 Requirements

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent industry research experience • 3+ years of professional or post-graduate research experience in Deep Learning, focused on computer vision, speech/audio processing, or voice biometrics and identity authentication • Hands-on research experience in audio-visual deepfake detection, synthetic media identification, or multimodal biometric verification • Strong programming proficiency in Python • Proven ability to build, maintain, and structure reproducible research tooling, experimentation frameworks, or evaluation workflows • Hands-on mastery of PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Keras • Proven track record of successful, timely project delivery • Ability to translate research findings into practical improvements • Peer-reviewed publications or patent contributions • Nice-to-have: Functional programming experience in C/C++ or familiarity with ONNX, TensorRT, TF-Lite, or Go • Nice-to-have: Experience with real-time streaming video or audio processing pipelines and large-scale synthetic data generation/augmentation • Nice-to-have: Experience with DFDC, ASVspoof, NIST SRE/FRVT, or Kaggle benchmarks • Nice-to-have: Familiarity with NLP, foundational multimodal architectures, or sequence modeling

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package, including RSUs (Restricted Stock Units) for all employees • Remote-first environment - giving you flexibility and autonomy in how you structure your day • Regular team on-sites, company-wide events, and intentional gatherings • Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO) • Generous health and welfare plans, including one employer-paid employee-only plan • Best-in-class Health Savings Account (HSA) employer contribution • Low-cost vision and dental plans for you and your family • Paid Parental Leave, including birth, adoptive & foster parents • One year of diaper delivery for your newest addition to the family • Recurring monthly phone and internet allowance • Enhanced fertility and GLP-1 benefits • Annual Learning & Development stipend for professional growth, skill-building, certifications, and continued education