Synhawk
Member of Technical Staff: Junior AI Researcher
San Francisco · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Experience
- Finishing a Master's or PhD, or recently graduated; no years of industry experience required.
- Education
- Master's or PhD (in progress or recently completed).
About the job
Develop and deploy foundation models and media-integrity methods to detect audio, video, and image manipulation and protect communications infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Run multi-GPU training experiments; curate data; fine-tune and evaluate models.
- Implement detection architectures and signal-processing methods for audio, video, and images.
- Test adversarial robustness and red-team models using deepfake generators.
What they ask for
- Strong foundations in machine learning and interest in audio, video, or media forensics.
- Comfort with Python and PyTorch.
- Experience training models.
Nice to have
- A thesis, paper, open-source contributions, research internship, or relevant side projects.
Tools
Python, PyTorch, H100
AI focus
Research, train, and deploy foundation models and media-integrity methods, including deepfake detection, multimodal data augmentation, post-training, distribution-shift evaluation, and adversarial robustness.
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