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Reality Defender

Quality Assurance Engineer at Reality Defender (New York, NY)

Reality Defender· New York, NY· $120k–$150k·

Role details

Salary
$120k–$150k
Employment
Full-Time
Equity
Yes

Job description

Quality Assurance Engineer NYC HQ or Remote (U.S.) | Full-time | Engineering | Reports to: Quality Assurance Lead Who we are. Reality Defender is an award-winning cybersecurity company helping enterprises and governments detect deepfakes and AI-generated media. 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. Backed 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. Youtube: Reality Defender Wins RSA Most Innovative Startup The Quality Assurance Engineer Role. Our customers rely on Reality Defender to make high-stakes calls in real time — whether the voice on a bank's phone line or the face in a job interview is real. As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you'll make sure what we ship holds up to that standard, testing our APIs, SDKs, web app, and real-time integrations, and building the automation that lets us release faster without breaking things. This is a full-time role based at our NYC headquarters or remote within the U.S., reporting to Quality Assurance Lead. Responsibilities include:

  • Own test planning and execution for assigned product areas — APIs, SDKs, the web app, and real-time voice and video integrations — from requirements review through release sign-off.
  • Build and maintain automated test suites (API, end-to-end, and regression) and integrate them into our CI/CD pipelines.
  • Find, document, and track defects with clear reproduction steps, severity, and impact, and work with engineers through to resolution.
  • Test the reliability and performance of real-time detection under realistic conditions — latency, load, varied audio and video quality, and different platforms and devices.
  • Help maintain the test data and media sets used to validate each release.
  • Partner with the AI Research and Red Team to support model release validation and regression testing.
  • Help Customer Support and Solutions Engineering reproduce and triage customer-reported issues.
  • Contribute to QA standards, documentation, and release checklists across the engineering team.

Who you are.

  • 3+ years of experience in software QA or quality engineering, testing web applications and APIs in a fast-moving release environment.
  • Hands-on experience writing automated tests in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar, using frameworks such as Pytest, Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium.
  • Experience testing REST APIs (e.g., Postman or code-based API tests) and working within CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions).
  • Strong attention to detail and a systematic approach to finding edge cases — you think about how things break, not just whether they work.
  • Clear written communication: your bug reports and test plans are easy for engineers to act on.
  • Experience testing audio, video, or real-time communication products (WebRTC, telephony, conferencing). (nice to have)
  • Experience testing ML-powered products or working with test datasets. (nice to have)
  • Exposure to performance or load testing tools (e.g., k6, Locust, JMeter). (nice to have)

Within 12 months, you'll…

  • Own QA for multiple product areas with minimal oversight.
  • Have helped establish quality metrics (escaped defects, coverage, release stability) that the team tracks and acts on.
  • Be improving QA tooling and practices beyond your own areas.
  • Be ready to take on broader scope and mentor newer QA team members.

What we offer. Reality Defender offers the following benefits to all our employees, regardless of location:

  • Healthcare plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and partial coverage available for dependents
  • Dental and Vision plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and their dependents
  • Short/Long-term disability and life insurance plans with 100% premium coverage for employees
  • FSA/HSA and 401k programs
  • Equity compensation
  • 20 days of PTO per year
  • 12 weeks of Parental Leave
  • Learning and Development budget
  • Monthly wellness benefits
  • Annual company-sponsored offsite

For employees working from Reality Defender's HQ in NYC, we offer the following benefits:

  • Daily in-office lunch through UberEats
  • Commuter benefits
  • Remote Fridays
  • Happy Hours and other local events

Base salary range: $120k-$150k, based on experience and location. Includes equity.

Why work at Reality Defender

  • Mission-driven: Work on cutting-edge AI security that directly protects people, institutions, and democratic trust.
  • Culture: Values of integrity, continuous innovation, cross-functionality, impact, and inclusion. Emphasizes transparency and rigorous testing.
  • Work environment: Collaborative in-office environment in historic Tribeca, New York City. Team of builders, researchers, and realists.
  • Benefits: Competitive health and wellness benefits, generous employee perks, and investment in professional growth.
  • Engineering culture: Bleeding-edge AI research, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and opportunities to publish and contribute to the field.

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