Lead, On-Device AI Product Engineering

Tether Operations Limited; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Tether Operations Limited seeks a Product Engineering Lead for QV.AC, our on-device AI assistant stack. You will steer engineering and product teams, translating bold product vision into shipped features while upholding a high engineering bar.

You will partner with product managers, collaborate with AI research and deep tech groups, and mentor leads to build robust, private, local AI capabilities that run on real devices.

Qualifications

• Experience managing engineers or engineering leads who ship consumer product, 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.
• Deep JavaScript and React.
• Initiative, curiosity, resilience, and the ability to give and receive direct critique.

Responsibilities

• Run the app and feature teams day to day: unblocking, reviewing, and keeping them shipping.
• Set and hold a high engineering bar for performance, reliability, and clean APIs.
• Own the technical design of features and the API surface between our AI core and the app.
• Make sure your teams work closely with our AI research and deep tech teams on code reviews, design, and anything that touches models or inference.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Product sense

Applied AI intuition

On-device AI

Model latency awareness

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

React

JavaScript

AI tooling

Job description

Tether Operations Limited seeks a Product Engineering Lead for QV.AC, our on-device AI assistant stack. You will steer engineering and product teams, translating bold product vision into shipped features while upholding a high engineering bar.

You will partner with product managers, collaborate with AI research and deep tech groups, and mentor leads to build robust, private, local AI capabilities that run on real devices.