Research Engineer Intern — LLMs & Multimodal AI

Tether Operations Limited; United States; Remote; USD 25,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2025/2026. MSc/PhD Internships at Tether aim to provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, and to the organization’s future plans and emerging technologies.

In our team, you will have the opportunity to participate in the development of state-of-the-art foundation models and will also be responsible for optimizing our distributed model training framework continuously.

Qualifications

• Pursuing MSc/PhD in AI/ML/CS required or expected.
• Experience with state-of-the-art LLMs or multimodal models is a plus.
• Willingness to contribute to research and product development at scale.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop state-of-the-art LLM and/or video or multimodality models to accelerate open-source progress.
• Implement the application of large models in business scenarios like pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, post-training, inference, etc.
• Continuously optimize the training framework to better adapt to training of large models on thousands of multi-node GPUs.
• Collaborate with broader teams across Tether to advance open-source LLM, vision and multimodal foundation models.

Skills

Research & development

LLM models

Multimodal models

Distributed training

Education

Masters or PhD in AI/ML/CS

Tools

GPU clusters

Job description

We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2025/2026. MSc/PhD Internships at Tether aim to provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, and to the organization’s future plans and emerging technologies.

In our team, you will have the opportunity to participate in the development of state-of-the-art foundation models and will also be responsible for optimizing our distributed model training framework continuously.