Research Engineer Intern (Multimodal LLM)

Join the company and Shape the Future of Digital Finance

At the company, 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. By harnessing the power of blockchain technology, the company enables you to store, send, and receive digital tokens instantly, securely, and globally, all at a fraction of the cost. Transparency is the bedrock of everything we do, ensuring trust in every transaction.

Innovate with the company

The company 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.

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Why Join Us?

Our team is a global talent powerhouse, working remotely from every corner of the world. If you’re passionate about making a mark in the fintech space, this is your opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest minds, pushing boundaries and setting new standards. We’ve grown fast, stayed lean, and secured our place as a leader in the industry.

If you have excellent English communication skills and are ready to contribute to the most innovative platform on the planet, the company is the place for you.

Are you ready to be part of the future?

About the job

• We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2025/2026. MSc/PhD Internships at the company 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 the state-of-the-art (SOTA) foundation models, and will also be responsible for optimizing our distributed model training framework continuously.

• PhD internships at the company provide students with the opportunity to actively contribute to our products and research, and to the organization's future plans and emerging technologies. Our dynamic internship experience blends hands-on learning, enriching community-building and development events, and collaboration with industry experts.

• Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply early. Please state your availability clearly in your resume (Start date, End date).

Responsibilities

• Research and develop state-of-the-art LLM and/or video or multimodality models to accelerate open-source progress in the domains.

• Implement the application of large models in our business scenarios, like pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, post-training, inference etc.

• Continuously optimize the training framework to better adapt to the training of large models on thousands of multi-node GPUs.

• In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to advance the development of open-source LLM, vision and/or multimodal foundation models and products. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with broader teams across the company.

• MSc/PhD candidate in computer science or a related technical discipline

• Related Research Experience at least one of the following areas: LLM, computer vision, multimodality

• Be proficient with PyTorch deep learning framework and libraries

• Have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, logical thinking skills, communication and collaboration skills

• Publications in the top AI conferences (e.g., ACL, NIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, TPAMI, IJCV, etc.) is a nice to have.

Important information for candidates

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• Apply only through our official channels.  We do not use third-party platforms or agencies for recruitment unless clearly stated. All open roles are listed on our official careers page: [link for members]

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• We will never request payment or financial details.  If someone asks for personal financial information or payment at any point during the hiring process, it is a scam. Please report it immediately.

When in doubt, feel free to reach out through our official website.