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.