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Utilizing a patented multi-model approach, Reality Defender is robust against the bleeding edge of generative platforms producing video, audio, imagery, and text media. Reality Defender's API-first deepfake detection platform empowers teams and developers alike to identify fraud, disinformation campaigns, and harmful deepfakes in real time.\nBacked by world class investors including DCVC, Illuminate Financial, Y Combinator, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, Accenture, Rackhouse, and Argon VC, Reality Defender works with leading enterprise clients, financial institutions, and governments in order to ensure AI-generated media is not used for malicious purposes.\nYoutube: Reality Defender Wins RSA Most Innovative Startup\nThe Red Team Role\nReality Defender's AI Red Team exists to break our own detection models before adversaries do. As a Red Team Engineer, you'll get your hands on the newest deepfake tools the moment they appear - voice clones, real-time face swaps, injection attacks, multimodal impersonations - use them the way real attackers would, and turn every failure you uncover into a measurable fix shipped alongside our AI and Data teams. This is a full-time role based at our NYC headquarters or remote within the U.S., reporting to VP of Product. Responsibilities include:\nRun continuous adversarial testing against our detection models across audio, video, image, and text, reproducing new generative tools and techniques as they're released and stress-testing them against production models.\n\nBuild realistic, end-to-end attack simulations that mirror how bad actors actually operate - cloned voices in call centers, real-time synthetic video in onboarding flows and job interviews, virtual camera and media injection, and coordinated cross-channel impersonation.\n\nBuild and maintain repeatable red team infrastructure: test harnesses, attack catalogs, and an evolving adversarial dataset that every model release is validated against.\n\nClose the loop on findings - prioritize them, hand them to AI scientists and engineers with clean reproduction steps, and verify fixes through regression testing so they stick.\n\nTrack the generative AI landscape (open-source models, commercial tools, research papers, and threat actor tradecraft) and triage which techniques are most likely to be weaponized next.\n\nPartner with Product to shape roadmap priorities based on what red team findings reveal.\n\nSupport Sales, Marketing, and Solutions Engineering with credible, publishable research and threat briefings for enterprise and government customers.\n\nContribute to adversarial testing of the broader platform - APIs and integrations - in partnership with Security.\n\nHelp define the ethical guidelines and safe-handling practices for synthetic media used in testing.\n\nWho you are.\n4+ years of experience in offensive security, adversarial ML, AI red teaming, or ML engineering with a strong adversarial focus.\n\nHands-on experience generating synthetic media - voice cloning and TTS, face swap, lip-sync, diffusion-based image and video tools - in an offensive or research context, not just reading about it.\n\nStrong Python skills and practical ML fluency (PyTorch or similar): you can build attack tooling, automate testing pipelines, and reason about why a model fails, not just that it did.\n\nWorking knowledge of adversarial ML techniques - evasion, adversarial perturbations, compression and post-processing attacks, data poisoning - and how to measure model robustness.\n\nClear communicator who can turn technical findings into prioritized, actionable guidance for engineers and non-technical audiences alike, and who thrives with ambiguity and minimal supervision.\n\nBackground in media forensics, signal processing, speech/audio, or computer vision. (nice to have)\n\nTraditional red team or penetration testing experience (cloud, APIs, web), relevant certifications (e.g., OSCP), or familiarity with AI security tooling such as Garak, PyRIT, or the Adversarial Robustness Toolbox. (nice to have)\n\nPublished research, conference talks, CVEs, or open-source contributions in adversarial ML, deepfakes, or AI security. (nice to have)\n\nWithin 1 month, you'll…\nGet up to speed on our detection model architecture across modalities, the current red team program, test harnesses, and adversarial dataset.\n\nMeet your AI, Data, Product, and Security counterparts to understand how findings are triaged and remediated today.\n\nReproduce a set of recently released generative tools and techniques and run them against our production models.\n\nDeliver your first written findings report with prioritized detection gaps.\n\nWithin 3 months, you'll…\nOwn a defined attack area end-to-end (e.g., real-time voice attacks or media injection).\n\nHave expanded the attack catalog and test harness with new techniques and automation that reduces manual testing time.\n\nHave driven at least one finding through remediation and verified the fix through regression testing.\n\nHave established a regular cadence for sharing threat landscape updates with the AI and Product teams.\n\nWithin 6 months, you'll…\nHave made red team testing a standard step in the model release process for your attack area.\n\nHave built multimodal, real-time attack simulations (combined voice and video, conversational attacks) that reflect real operating conditions.\n\nBe showing measurable improvement in model robustness against the adversarial dataset, tracked release over release.\n\nHave contributed research to at least one external publication, customer briefing, or sales enablement asset.\n\nWithin 12 months, you'll…\nBe recognized internally as a go-to authority on how deepfakes are made and how they evade detection.\n\nHave built adversarial testing infrastructure that scales across every modality with minimal manual effort.\n\nHave red team insights directly shaping the product roadmap and how we talk about risk with customers and government partners.\n\nBe identifying and leading testing on the next generation of threats - such as AI agent callers and real-time multimodal impersonation - before they show up in production.\n\nWhat we offer.\nReality Defender offers the following benefits to all our employees, regardless of location:\nHealthcare plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and partial coverage available for dependents\n\nDental and Vision plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and their dependents\n\nShort/Long-term disability and life insurance plans with 100% premium coverage for employees\n\nFSA/HSA and 401k programs\n\nEquity compensation\n\n20 days of PTO per year\n\n12 weeks of Parental Leave\n\nLearning and Development budget\n\nMonthly wellness benefits\n\nAnnual company-sponsored offsite\n\nFor employees working from Reality Defender's HQ in NYC, we offer the following benefits:\nDaily in-office lunch through UberEats\n\nCommuter benefits\n\nRemote Fridays\n\nHappy Hours and other local events\n\nBase salary range: $155,000 - 185,000 based on experience and location. 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