AI Research Engineer (Agentic Post-training) - 100% Remote Worldwide
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Join Tether and Shape the Future of Digital Finance At Tether, we’re not just building products, we’re pioneering a global financial revolution. Our cutting-edge solutions empower businesses—from exchanges and wallets to payment processors and ATMs—to seamlessly integrate reserve-backed tokens across blockchains.
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***Join Tether and Shape the Future of Digital Finance***
At Tether, we’re not just building products, we’re pioneering a global financial revolution.
Our cutting-edge solutions empower businesses—from exchanges and wallets to payment processors and ATMs—to seamlessly integrate reserve-backed tokens across blockchains.
By harnessing the power of blockchain technology, Tether enables you to store, send, and receive digital tokens instantly, securely, and globally, all at a fraction of the cost.
Transparency is the bedrock of everything we do, ensuring trust in every transaction.
***Innovate with Tether***
**Tether Finance:** Our innovative product suite features the world’s most trusted stablecoin, **USDT**, relied upon by hundreds of millions worldwide, alongside pioneering digital asset tokenization services.
But that’s just the beginning:
**Tether Power:** Driving sustainable growth, our energy solutions optimize excess power for Bitcoin mining using eco-friendly practices in state-of-the-art, geo-diverse facilities.
**Tether Data:** Fueling breakthroughs in AI and peer-to-peer technology, we reduce infrastructure costs and enhance global communications with cutting-edge solutions like **KEET**, our flagship app that redefines secure and private data sharing.
**Tether Education**: Democratizing access to top-tier digital learning, we empower individuals to thrive in the digital and gig economies, driving global growth and opportunity.
**Tether Evolution**: At the intersection of technology and human potential, we are pushing the boundaries of what is possible, crafting a future where innovation and human capabilities merge in powerful, unprecedented ways.
***Why Join Us?***
Our team is a global talent powerhouse, working remotely from every corner of the world.
If you’re passionate about making a mark in the fintech space, this is your opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest minds, pushing boundaries and setting new standards.
We’ve grown fast, stayed lean, and secured our place as a leader in the industry.
If you have excellent English communication skills and are ready to contribute to the most innovative platform on the planet, Tether is the place for you.
Are you ready to be part of the future?
About The Job
As a member of the AI model team, you will drive innovation in post-training methodologies, with a special focus on agentic behaviors and tool use.
Your work will refine pre-trained models so that they not only deliver enhanced intelligence and domain specific capabilities, but also learn to reason, plan, and autonomously invoke external tools to solve real world, multi step tasks and applications on edge devices (i.e., smartphones).
You will work on a wide spectrum of systems, ranging from streamlined, resource efficient agents that run on limited hardware to complex multi modal architectures integrating text, images, and audio, all optimized for tool augmented decision making.
We expect you to have deep expertise in large language model architectures and substantial experience in post-training for agentic workflows, including tool use fine tuning, function calling, and reinforcement learning from feedback on multi turn interactions.
You will adopt a hands-on, research driven approach to developing, testing, and implementing new post-training algorithms that unlock goal directed behavior, self correction, and reliable tool invocation.
Your responsibilities include curating agentic training data (e.g., trajectories of tool use, reasoning chains, environment interactions), strengthening baseline performance, and identifying as well as resolving bottlenecks in post-training for tool augmented agents to achieve SOTA model quality.
The goal is to build models that do not just know but also act, use tools, and adapt, pushing the limits of what agentic AI can achieve.
Responsibilities
- Conduct end-to-end research and engineering initiatives to advance post-training of agentic and tool-use models to achieve SOTA results.
- Drive broad, cross-cutting model improvements, including factuality, instruction adherence, tool/function use, multi-agent coordination, and reasoning calibration.
- Design and enhance large-scale post-training systems, including data pipelines, training workflows, evaluation frameworks, and benchmark infrastructure.
- Develop rigorous evaluation suites and diagnostic tools to assess model readiness for deployment.
- Strengthen feedback loops from real-world product usage, incorporating both explicit and implicit user signals into post-training.
- Collaborate with tooling, product, and training teams to improve the usefulness, reliability, and agentic capabilities of frontier models.
- Closely liaise with research, engineering and cross-functional teams to determine which integrations are production-ready for inclusion in major model releases.
- Degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field; advanced degree (MS/PhD) preferred with a strong publication record in top-tier AI conferences.
- Experience with multimodal post-training workflows and data pipelines, particularly for agentic systems and tool use.
- Hands-on experience applying post-training at scale using distributed training frameworks (e.g., multi-node GPU environments).
- Demonstrated experience improving model capabilities in areas such as reasoning, tool use, and multi-agent coordination that achieve SOTA results.
- Proven track record of open-source contributions related to agentic systems or tool use (code, datasets, or models) on platforms such as GitHub or Hugging Face.
- Publications at leading AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, CVPR, ECCV).
- Important information for candidates
- Recruitment scams have become increasingly common.
- To protect yourself, please keep the following in mind when applying for roles:
- **Apply only through our official channels.** We do not use third-party platforms or agencies for recruitment unless clearly stated. All open roles are listed on our official careers page: https://tether.recruitee.com/
- **Verify the recruiter’s identity.** All our recruiters have verified LinkedIn profiles. If you’re unsure, you can confirm their identity by checking their profile or contacting us through our website.
- **Be cautious of unusual communication methods.** We do not conduct interviews over WhatsApp, Telegram, or SMS. All communication is done through official company emails and platforms.
- **Double-check email addresses.** All communication from us will come from emails ending in **@**tether.to **or @**tether.io
- **We will never request payment or financial details.** If someone asks for personal financial information or payment at any point during the hiring process, it is a scam. Please report it immediately.
- When in doubt, feel free to reach out through our official website.
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