Staff ML Systems Engineer - Media Intelligence — Tether Operations
- Location
- Zürich
- Contract
- remote
- Posted
- 55 days ago
Role overview
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.
- Join Tether and Shape the Future of Digital Finance
- At Tether, we’re not just building products, we’re pioneering a global financial revolution.
- Backend Architecture & System Ownership
- Design and operate scalable backend services for media ingestion, processing, and report generation - clean, well-tested, and built for horizontal scaling from day one
Main responsibilities
- Backend Architecture & System Ownership
- Design and operate scalable backend services for media ingestion, processing, and report generation - clean, well-tested, and built for horizontal scaling from day one
- Own API contracts, data models, and storage patterns for media assets, processing jobs, model outputs, embeddings, and audit trails
- Build high-throughput async processing pipelines for video, audio, image, and text using queues and event-driven patterns (SQS, Kafka, Pub/Sub, or equivalent)
- Implement reliable asynchronous processing with retries, idempotency, dead-letter queues, backpressure handling, and graceful degradation AI/ML Integration & Model Workflows
- Integrate and optimize AI/ML inference workflows within the backend - embedding pipelines, multimodal models, OCR, speech-to-text, scene analysis, and visual classifiers
- Own model-serving infrastructure: batching strategies, concurrency tuning, warmup behavior, timeout handling, autoscaling, and GPU utilization
Application process
- Apply practical model optimization techniques
- quantization, distillation, batching, caching, routing to smaller models where appropriate
- to hit latency, throughput, and cost targets on constrained hardware
- Benchmark and evaluate candidate models using domain-relevant metrics, not just standard leaderboards.
- Set operating thresholds using data-driven calibration methods and document the rationale Model Serving & Performance Optimization
- Optimize AI/ML inference workflows for latency, throughput, reliability, and cost across both real-time and batch-processing paths.
- Work with model-serving systems such as vLLM, Triton, TGI, SageMaker, Vertex AI, or custom inference services to improve batching, concurrency, warmup behavior, timeout handling, autoscaling, and GPU utilization.
- Evaluate and apply practical model optimization techniques such as quantization, model distillation, batching, caching, prompt optimization, and routing to smaller or cheaper models where appropriate.
Contacts
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Additional details
- 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. But that’s just the beginning:
- Are you ready to be part of the future?
- Implement reliable asynchronous processing with retries, idempotency, dead-letter queues, backpressure handling, and graceful degradation AI/ML Integration & Model Workflows
- Set operating thresholds using data-driven calibration methods and document the rationale Model Serving & Performance Optimization
- Ensure system reliability through logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, dashboards, operational runbooks, and incident-response best practices. Collaboration & Engineering Leadership
- You can explain the false-positive and false-negative tradeoffs of a classifier in plain language to a non-technical stakeholder. Additional requirements:
- Experience deploying and operating systems on AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Contributions to open-source ML or infrastructure projects System Design & Architecture
- Understanding of performance bottlenecks and low-latency backend patterns Important information for candidates
Notes and original content
- 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.
- But that’s just the beginning:
- About the job
- Responsibilities
- Implement reliable asynchronous processing with retries, idempotency, dead-letter queues, backpressure handling, and graceful degradation
- AI/ML Integration & Model Workflows
- Set operating thresholds using data-driven calibration methods and document the rationale
- Model Serving & Performance Optimization
Questions about this listing
What salary does Tether Operations offer for this role?
Tether Operations lists CHF 73'500 - 111'500 gross per year for this position in Zürich. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does Tether Operations offer?
This listing is a full-time position. The contract type shown here comes directly from the employer's original posting; always confirm exact hours, notice period and probation length with Tether Operations during the application process, since these details can vary by role even within the same contract category.
Do I need a cross-border work permit for a role in Zürich?
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