Remote On-Device AI Product Engineering Lead

Tether.io; Abu Dhabi; Remote; AED 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Tether is seeking a Product Engineering Lead to turn direction into features for our on-device AI stack. You will lead teams shipping features on-device, reporting to the CTO and partnering with product to align scope with reality.

The role blends 70% engineering leadership and 30% product work, requiring a proven track record of shipping consumer AI-powered apps, deep JavaScript/React skills, and a passion for practical AI at the edge.

Qualifications

• Experience managing engineers or engineering leads who ship consumer products, ideally AI-powered apps.
• Strong product sense: you can tell a good feature from a busy one.
• Intuition for applied AI and on-device constraints: model size, latency, memory, battery.
• You use AI tools heavily in your own work and enjoy experimenting with new models and capabilities.
• Deep JavaScript and React.

Responsibilities

• Run the app and feature teams day to day: unblock, review, and keep shipping; set a high engineering bar for performance, reliability, and APIs.
• Collaborate with product managers to translate vision and roadmap into scoped, buildable work; provide engineering perspective on what local models can do.
• Mentor team leads to improve operating systems, cross-team collaboration, and leadership growth.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Product sense

On-device AI understanding

JavaScript

React

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

JavaScript tooling

React tooling

Local AI stack

Job description

Tether is seeking a Product Engineering Lead to turn direction into features for our on-device AI stack. You will lead teams shipping features on-device, reporting to the CTO and partnering with product to align scope with reality.

The role blends 70% engineering leadership and 30% product work, requiring a proven track record of shipping consumer AI-powered apps, deep JavaScript/React skills, and a passion for practical AI at the edge.