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Applied AI Researcher

Role overview

Summary

This role focuses on developing methods for AI-driven synthetic media detection and digital fraud prevention. You will work within a small research and engineering team to address practical challenges in digital trust and security.

Qualifications

  • Strong foundations in machine learning, experimental design, and model evaluation.
  • Experience building, training, and evaluating models with modern machine learning tools.
  • A track record of translating research into working software and shipped production code.
  • Ability to critically assess research papers, design experiments, and clearly communicate findings.
  • Evidence of research and engineering ability through publications, shipped systems, open-source work, or substantial applied projects.

Responsibilities

  • Investigate methods for deepfake detection, synthetic media analysis, and fraud prevention.
  • Read, assess, and reproduce research, then identify approaches for further development.
  • Design experiments, establish baselines, and evaluate models on realistic data.
  • Implement research ideas and collaborate with engineering to bring successful methods into production.

Key facts

  • Remote from: United States
  • Full time
  • AI Research Scientist
  • English

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Critical Thinking
  • Problem Solving

About the company

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Clera Inc.

  • Job Boards & Talent Marketplaces
  • 11–50
Clera is an AI talent agent that represents job candidates and connects them directly with hiring managers at venture-backed startups. The platform uses artificial intelligence to match professionals with suitable career opportunities and facilitates introductions via email, iMessage, and WhatsApp, bypassing traditional job application processes.

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Job description

About the Role

Join a small research and engineering team working on AI for synthetic media detection, media forensics, and digital fraud prevention. You will combine rigorous research with hands-on implementation to develop approaches that address practical digital trust and security challenges.

What You'll Do

  • Investigate methods for deepfake detection, synthetic media analysis, and fraud prevention.

  • Read, assess, and reproduce research, then identify approaches for further development.

  • Design experiments, establish baselines, and evaluate models on realistic data.

  • Implement research ideas and collaborate with engineering to bring successful methods into production.

  • Analyze failure cases and improve model reliability, generalization, and computational efficiency.

  • Document findings and contribute to research papers and technical writing.

  • Work with team leaders to prioritize research around practical user needs.

What We're Looking For

  • Strong foundations in machine learning, experimental design, and model evaluation.

  • Experience building, training, and evaluating models with modern machine learning tools.

  • A track record of translating research into working software and shipped production code.

  • Ability to critically assess research papers, design experiments, and clearly communicate findings.

  • Evidence of research and engineering ability through publications, shipped systems, open-source work, or substantial applied projects.

  • Experience in computer vision, audio processing, multimodal learning, media forensics, adversarial robustness, or model deployment under latency and reliability constraints is valuable.

  • Comfort taking ownership of open-ended problems in a small team.

Compensation & Benefits

Compensation is discussed during the hiring process. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

Remote within the United States.

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