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Principal Applied Research Engineer, Content Authenticity

US, CA, Santa Clara💼 Full-time💰 $272,000–$272,000🗓 2026-09-08 → 2026-09-25

Core

Set technical direction and build real-time AI models for detecting synthetic and manipulated media (content authenticity) across video, audio, and visual modalities.

Role type

Principal Applied Research Engineer (Content Authenticity)

Builds

End-to-end forensics pipelines, detection models, and evaluation benchmarks for media authenticity.

Domain

AI for Media, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Digital Forensics

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Deep learning architecture, computer vision, model optimization for real-time performance, data strategy, technical roadmap planning, cross-modal analysis (video/audio), system design from research to production

Preferred skills

Digital forensics, media provenance, adversarial detection, standards participation (C2PA), evaluation framework design

Technologies

PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, TensorRT, Triton, WinML, Neural Processing SDKs

Responsibilities

Architect model and pipeline strategy for synthetic media detection; Design and optimize AI models for computer vision and video AI; Extend authenticity coverage to audio and other modalities; Establish benchmarks and failure-mode analysis; Manage accuracy/latency/throughput tradeoffs; Partner with Research and Product teams; Mentor engineers and act as technical authority

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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