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AI Research Engineer (Pre-training - LLM & Multi-Modal) - 100% Remote Worldwide

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Market range (est.) $90k–$180k
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Join Tether as an AI Research Engineer and shape the future of digital finance by driving innovation in AI model architecture and pre-training for LLMs and Multi-Modal systems.

Description

Join Tether and shape the future of digital finance. Tether is pioneering a global financial revolution, empowering businesses with cutting-edge solutions to integrate reserve-backed tokens across blockchains. Our innovative product suite includes the world’s most trusted stablecoin, USDT, and pioneering digital asset tokenization services (Tether Finance). We also drive sustainable growth through energy solutions for Bitcoin mining (Tether Power), fuel breakthroughs in AI and peer-to-peer technology with solutions like KEET (Tether Data), democratize digital learning (Tether Education), and push boundaries at the intersection of technology and human potential (Tether Evolution). Our team is a global talent powerhouse, working remotely from every corner of the world. If you’re passionate about fintech and making a significant impact, this is an opportunity to collaborate with bright minds, pushing boundaries and setting new industry standards. We value excellent English communication skills and invite you to be part of the most innovative platform on the planet.

Responsibilities
  • Conducting foundational large-scale pre-training for LLMs and Multi-Modal models (integrating text, vision, audio, or other modalities) on large, distributed servers with multi-nodes and thousands of NVIDIA GPUs.
  • Designing, prototyping, and scaling innovative architectures, tokenizers, and cross-modal alignment layers to enhance model intelligence and multi-modal understanding.
  • Sourcing, filtering, and curating massive-scale textual and multi-modal datasets, establishing robust data pipelines for efficient pre-training.
  • Independently and collaboratively executing experiments, analyzing results, and refining training methodologies for optimal performance and token efficiency.
  • Investigating, debugging, and eliminating bottlenecks in model efficiency, computational performance, and multi-modal alignment stability during long training runs.
  • Contributing to the advancement of distributed training systems to ensure seamless scalability and hardware efficiency on target platforms.
Requirements
  • A degree in Computer Science or related field, ideally PhD in NLP, Machine Learning, or a related field, complemented by a solid track record in AI R&D (with good publications in A* conferences).
  • Hands-on experience contributing to large-scale LLM or Multi-Modal pre-training runs on large, distributed servers equipped with thousands of NVIDIA GPUs, ensuring scalability and impactful advancements in model performance.
  • Familiarity and practical experience with large-scale, distributed training frameworks, libraries and tools.
  • Deep knowledge of state-of-the-art transformer and non-transformer modifications aimed at enhancing intelligence, efficiency and scalability.
  • Strong expertise in PyTorch and Hugging Face libraries with practical experience in model development, continual pretraining, and deployment.
  • Excellent English communication skills.
Job Details
Market range (est.)$90k–$180k
LocationRemote
AI Score★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 6/10
PostedAug 21, 2026 (3h ago)
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Tech Stack
Data CurationBlockchainTokenizersCross-Modal AlignmentMachine LearningDistributed TrainingHugging FaceTransformer ArchitecturesFintechDebuggingScalabilityNVIDIA GPUsArchitecture DesignPyTorchAI R&DModel OptimizationMulti-ModalNLPComputer ScienceLLM
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