Tether
FinTech
SeniorAppliedMLEngineer
“Senior Applied ML Engineer at Tether. Skills: Machine Learning Systems, Backend Engineering, AI/ML Integration, Media Intelligence. Architect backend services. Build backend services”
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting; Performance tuning
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Deep backend engineering expertise, System design capability, Practical AI/ML integration experience, Production-grade moderation pipeline development, Excellent English communication skills
Nice to Have
Experience with model-serving systems, Experience with LLM evaluation frameworks, Experience with domain-specific benchmarks, Understanding of distributed systems, Understanding of scaling patterns, Understanding of performance engineering, Experience with API versioning, Experience with modularization, Experience designing long-running workflows, Understanding of performance bottlenecks, Understanding of low-latency backend patterns
What You'll Do.
Architect backend services
Build backend services
Operate backend services
Own backend components
Design processing pipelines
Design distributed compute
Design cloud infrastructure
Design model-serving workflows
Design storage patterns
Design media assets storage
Design metadata storage
Design embeddings storage
Design processing jobs storage
Design model outputs storage
Design search indexes storage
Design audit trails storage
Design media ingestion pipelines
Design media processing pipelines
Build event-driven workflows
Implement asynchronous processing
Lead metadata extraction development
Lead content analysis development
Lead scene detection development
Lead transcription development
Lead embedding generation development
Lead multimodal AI inference development
Integrate AI/ML services
Optimize AI/ML services
Evaluate AI/ML services
Optimize model performance
Benchmark model performance
Interpret benchmark results
Define backend architecture
Deliver secure systems
Deliver observable systems
Deliver high-performance systems
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional teams; Engineering leadership
Communication Scope
English communication
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