AI Harness Engineer (100% Remote, Worldwide)

Tether.io; Belgique; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Tether.io in Belgium is seeking an AI Harness Engineer to design and implement integrations for local AI systems, enabling scalable, private AI capabilities. You will push P2P technology, build agent harnesses, and contribute to AI tooling, with a focus on reliability, performance, and security.

Collaborating across teams, you will help shape the future of digital finance by delivering robust software for AI-enabled services and privacy-preserving data sharing.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production software with P2P systems.
• Experience with AI/LLM tooling and related infra is a plus.
• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills and knowledge of async/state management.

Responsibilities

• Deliver new features and bug fixes with a focus on reliability, performance, and user satisfaction.
• Design and develop tools and modules for AI capabilities and model types/sizes.
• Maintain high code quality through coding standards, reviews, and automated tests.
• Implement and develop P2P technology for use with local AI.
• Build agent harnesses, including tool calling, agent loops, context management, and structured outputs.
• Develop evals and test infrastructure for non-deterministic systems.

Skills

P2P networking

AI/LLM tooling

Agent harnesses

JavaScript/TypeScript

Open-source contributions

Tools

P2P technology

AI tooling

Job description

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.

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?

As an AI Harness Engineer, you're not just building integrations for AI - you're developing new and innovative ways to connect people to local AI, and how that AI will become a fixture in our lives. You will push QVAC to new levels, using P2P technology to enable limitless scale, making you essential to the company’s success in the competitive local AI assistant market.

Responsibilitiess

• Deliver new features and bug fixes with a focus on reliability, performance, and user satisfaction
• Design and develop new tools and modules, enabling new AI capabilities while ensuring success of a wide variety of model types and sizes
• Maintain high codebase quality through consistent coding standards, code reviews, and automated testing
• Implement and develop P2P technology for use with local AI
• 5+ years building production software, with deep experience in P2P systems, AI/LLM tooling, or both.
• Hands-on experience building agent harnesses, including tool calling, agent loops, context management, and structured outputs.
• Experience building evals and test infrastructure for non-deterministic systems.
• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript, with experience modelling complex state, from sync protocols to agent loops
• Open-source contributions to P2P, networking, or AI tooling projects
• Experience designing for failure, including network partitions, model errors, timeouts, and retries