Audio ML Engineer II
Reality Defender•New York, NY
•$160,000 - $210,000
About The Position
Reality Defender is seeking an Audio ML Engineer II to build, tune, and deploy state-of-the-art audio deepfake detection models in real-world client environments. The role primarily focuses on model tuning and deployment, ensuring robustness, reliability, and performance under diverse real-world test conditions, including adversarial and edge-case scenarios. This position requires deep hands-on expertise in model building, training, and benchmarking.
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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
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 (for HQ employees)
- Commuter benefits (for HQ employees)
- Remote Fridays (for HQ employees)
- Happy Hours and other local events (for HQ employees)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
