Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Tether.io is pioneering a global financial revolution through innovative digital solutions. The AI Research Engineer will focus on training and optimizing vision-language models, driving innovation across the full model development lifecycle, and working with a high-caliber team to push the boundaries of multimodal AI in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Conduct end-to-end research and engineering on vision-language models, covering training, evaluation, and optimization across the full model development lifecycle
• Design and implement post-training pipelines including supervised fine-tuning, knowledge distillation, and reinforcement learning from human feedback
• Develop and maintain high-quality multimodal datasets, including data curation, filtering, and balancing for domain-specific tasks
• Drive model efficiency and deployability, adapting models for resource-constrained environments using compression and optimization techniques
• Design and implement evaluation frameworks and benchmarks to measure model performance, robustness, and real-world task success
• Build and scale training workflows across distributed GPU infrastructure
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks in training pipelines to achieve state-of-the-art model quality on target benchmarks
• Contribute to and leverage open-source ecosystems including models, datasets, and tooling to accelerate development
• Stay current with the latest research in multimodal learning and vision-language systems, translating relevant findings into practical improvements
• Publish research findings in top-tier AI conferences and journals where applicable

Skills

• Degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field
• Strong experience with multimodal post-training workflows including supervised fine-tuning, knowledge distillation, and reinforcement learning from feedback
• Hands-on experience with parameter-efficient fine-tuning and distributed training frameworks
• Demonstrated ability to build and improve vision-language models with measurable results on standard benchmarks or real-world tasks
• Experience adapting models for resource-constrained environments
• Proven open-source contributions in multimodal AI on GitHub or HuggingFace
• MS/PhD preferred
• Publications at top AI conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ECCV etc.)

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