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Verifying individuals and organizations is harder - but more important - than ever, with AI enabling fraudsters to launch sophisticated accounts at scale and regulations evolving rapidly.\nWe’ve built Persona to support practically every use case and industry - that’s why we’re able to serve a wide range of leading companies. For example, Reddit relies on Persona for age assurance and verification to comply with online safety regulations, protecting younger users while maintaining a seamless experience. Meanwhile, OpenAI relies on Persona to keep bad actors out, protecting one of the world’s most powerful AI platforms from large-scale abuse in a time when AI is reshaping the way we work and live.\nWe’re growing rapidly and looking for exceptional people to join us!\nAbout the role\nProving who someone is online has never been harder or more important. You'll research how to detect fraud and verify identities more accurately. Your work will include detecting AI-generated and manipulated images, understanding how models perform across populations, and finding patterns in how attackers behave.\nYou bring depth in at least one of computer vision, mathematics and statistics, or identity verification and fraud prevention. You test ideas with focused experiments and follow what the results show. You'll work with our ML and engineering teams to turn your findings into defenses for real customers, and you'll get to publish your work.\nWhat you’ll do at Persona\nLead research on open problems in identity verification and fraud prevention, using focused experiments to test new ideas quickly.\n\nDevelop methods to detect manipulated documents, AI-generated images and emerging fraud attacks.\n\nEvaluate how reliably our models perform across different populations\n\nUncover the patterns in verification data that reveal fraud, and prove they're real signal and not noise.\n\nCalibrate model confidence and measure fraud events with limited labeled data.\n\nPartner with ML and engineering to turn research prototypes into production models.\n\nPublish at top venues such as CVPR, NeurIPS and USENIX Security, and stay active in the research community.\n\nWhat you’ll bring to Persona\nDeep expertise in one of the following:\nComputer vision: research in image forensics, face analysis, generative models or representation learning.\n\nMathematics and statistics: strong foundation in areas such as probability, statistical inference, optimization, or applied mathematics, with experience applying it to empirical research.\n\nIdentity or fraud prevention: Experience researching identity verification, biometrics, fraud detection, out-of-distribution detection, adversarial behavior, or closely related security problems.\n\nA PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related technical field is strongly preferred. 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