Web3 Research Jobs in Lisbon, Portugal

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. By harnessing the power of blockchain technology, Tether 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 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: Tether Power: Driving sustainable growth, our energy solutions optimize excess power for Bitcoin mining using eco-friendly practices in state-of-the-art, geo-diverse facilities. Tether Data: Fueling breakthroughs in AI and peer-to-peer technology, we reduce infrastructure costs and enhance global communications with cutting-edge solutions like KEET, our flagship app that redefines secure and private data sharing. Tether Education: Democratizing access to top-tier digital learning, we empower individuals to thrive in the digital and gig economies, driving global growth and opportunity. Tether Evolution: At the intersection of technology and human potential, we are pushing the boundaries of what is possible, crafting a future where innovation and human capabilities merge in powerful, unprecedented ways.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, Tether 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 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 the state-of-the-art (SOTA) foundation models, and will also be responsible for optimizing our distributed model training framework continuously. PhD internships at Tether 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 Tether.