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Senior Research Engineer - Multimodal & Video Foundation Model

Unlock employer Dubai, United Arab Emirates Posted: 19 Aug 2025

Financial

  • Estimate: $100k - $140k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Fully Remote
  • Apply from abroad
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

Join Tether and shape the future of digital finance. As a member of the AI model team, you will drive innovation in architecture development for cutting-edge models of various scales, including small, large, and multi-modal systems. Your work will enhance intelligence, improve efficiency, and introduce new capabilities to advance the field.

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You will have deep expertise in video generation model architectures with a hands-on, research-driven approach. Your mission is to explore and implement novel techniques and algorithms that lead to groundbreaking advancements in data curation, strengthening baselines, and identifying and resolving existing pre-training bottlenecks to push the limits of model performance.

Responsibilities:

  • Pioneer multimodal and video-centric research that contributes directly to usable prototypes and scalable systems.
  • Design and implement novel AI architectures for multimodal language models, integrating text, visual, and audio modalities.
  • Engineer scalable training and inference pipelines optimized for large-scale multimodal datasets and distributed GPU systems across thousands of GPUs.
  • Optimize systems and algorithms for efficient data processing, model execution, and pipeline throughput.
  • Build modular tools for preprocessing, analyzing, and managing multimodal data assets (e.g., images, video, text).
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with research and engineering teams to translate cutting-edge model innovations into production-grade solutions.
  • Prototype generative AI applications showcasing new capabilities of multimodal foundation models in real-world products.
  • Develop benchmarking tools to rigorously evaluate model performance across diverse multimodal tasks.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Expertise in Python & Pytorch, including practical experience working with the full development pipeline from data processing & data loading to training, inference, and optimization.
  • Experience working with large-scale text data or interleaved data spanning audio, video, image, and/or text.
  • Direct hands-on experience in developing or benchmarking topics such as LLMs, Vision Language Models, Audio Language Models, or generative video models.

Nice to Have Skills:

  • PhD in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, NLP, Computer Science, Applied Statistics, or closely related field.
  • Demonstrated expertise in computer vision, video generation foundation models, and/or multimodal research.
  • First-author publications at leading AI conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, etc.

Language Requirements:

  • Excellent English communication skills are required.
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