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AI Research Engineer (Pre-training - LLM & Multi-Modal)
Tether Operations Limited
WorldwideremotePosted today
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Role overview
Tether is pioneering a global financial revolution through blockchain technology, offering reserve-backed tokens, sustainable energy solutions for Bitcoin mining, AI and peer-to-peer infrastructure innovations, digital education platforms, and exploratory technology at the intersection of human potential and innovation. They are seeking a member to join their AI model team, driving innovation in architecture development for cutting-edge models of various scales.
Responsibilities
- Conduct foundational pre-training for LLMs and Multi-Modal models (integrating text, vision, audio, or other modalities) on large, distributed servers equipped with multi-nodes & thousands of NVIDIA GPUs.
- Design, prototype, and scale innovative architectures, tokenizers, and cross-modal alignment layers to enhance model intelligence and multi-modal understanding.
- Source, filter, and curate massive-scale textual and multi-modal datasets, establishing robust data pipelines for efficient pre-training.
- Independently and collaboratively execute experiments, analyze results, and refine training methodologies for optimal performance and token efficiency.
- Investigate, debug, and eliminate bottlenecks in model efficiency, computational performance, and multi-modal alignment stability during long training runs.
- Contribute 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.
- 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 and deployment.
- 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.
- Excellent English communication skills.
Nice to have
- 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).
- Practical experience in continual pretraining.
Benefits
- The team is a global talent powerhouse, working remotely from every corner of the world.
- Opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest minds, pushing boundaries and setting new standards in the fintech space.
- The company has grown fast, stayed lean, and secured its place as a leader in the industry.
Additional details
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Your work will enhance intelligence, improve efficiency, and introduce new capabilities to advance the field.
- Your mission is to explore and implement novel techniques and algorithms that lead to groundbreaking advancements: multi-modal data curation and alignment, strengthening baselines, and identifying and resolving existing pre-training bottlenecks to push the limits of cross-modal AI performance.
- 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.
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