About Reality Defender 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.
A Y Combinator graduate, Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs alumni, and backed by DCVC, Reality Defender is tdhe 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.
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Why we stand out:
- Our best-in-class accuracy is derived from our sole, research-backed mission and use of multiple models per modality
- We can detect AI-generated fraud and disinformation in near- or real time across all modalities including audio, video, image, and text.
- Our platform is designed for ease of use, featuring a versatile API that integrates seamlessly with any system, an intuitive drag-and-drop web application for quick ad hoc analysis, and platform-agnostic real-time audio detection tailored for call center deployments.
- We're privacy first, ensuring the strongest standards of compliance and keeping customer data away from the training of our detection models.
Role and Responsibilities - Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across Reality Defender's development teams, fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration.
- Tackle a wide variety of complex software engineering challenges, swiftly identifying and implementing effective technical solutions.
- Write clean, efficient, scalable, and reusable code-with a strong focus on performance and reliability.
- Champion unit testing and code quality, ensuring your team consistently delivers high-standard, bug-free releases.
- Influence and contribute to system architecture, database design, and API development with a strategic and forward-thinking mindset.
- Partner closely with Product Managers to define, scope, and prioritize new features and functionality.
- Collaborate with senior leadership to align on strategic initiatives and tackle critical business challenges with technology solutions.
About You - 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a proven track record of building and operating production systems at scale
- 2+ years of experience leading engineering initiatives, driving technical direction, and/or mentoring team members through architectural and project-level decisions.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical and business problems across diverse and evolving software architectures.
- Proven success working both independently and collaboratively on mission-critical initiatives in fast-paced environments.
- Experience contributing to or thriving within rapidly growing engineering teams is a strong plus.
- Deep expertise in designing, building, and operating high-scale, high-availability systems.