Tether has announced two remote job openings as it expands its operations beyond stablecoins into artificial intelligence and peer-to-peer technology. The company, best known as the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, is seeking an AI Inference Engineer for QVAC’s local AI infrastructure and a Senior Technical Product Manager for Keet, its peer-to-peer messaging and video-calling application.

Tether presented the openings as part of a broader effort focused on AI, private communication and decentralized technology. In a post on X, the company wrote:

There’s a place for the ones who see a better way. Your money. Your data. Your voice. Your mind. Yours alone. If you measure your work by the freedom it gives, you belong here. We’re hiring 👉 — Tether (@tether) November 13, 2026

The message ties the hiring push to individual ownership of money, data and communications — the same principles underlying QVAC’s on-device AI approach and Keet’s encrypted peer-to-peer design.

AI Inference Engineer for QVAC

The QVAC position is a remote AI Inference Engineer role open to applicants worldwide. The successful candidate will develop and improve the inference engine for QVAC’s local AI stack, with a focus on running AI models efficiently on users’ devices.

The role primarily involves C++ development. Responsibilities include deploying models on edge hardware, improving inference speed and working with researchers to move models from development into production environments.

Tether lists experience with inference frameworks including llama.cpp and ggml, along with GPU technologies such as CUDA, Vulkan, Metal and OpenCL. Candidates are also expected to have knowledge of large language models, transformers and deep learning. Both llama.cpp and ggml are open-source projects widely used to run large language models directly on consumer hardware — the same local-first category of infrastructure QVAC is built around.

The opening reflects Tether’s focus on local AI systems rather than relying exclusively on cloud-based infrastructure. The company’s stated approach is intended to give consumers more control over their data while enabling AI features to run directly on their own devices.

Senior Technical Product Manager for Keet

Tether is also hiring a Senior Technical Product Manager to lead product development for Keet, its peer-to-peer messaging and video-calling application. Keet uses Holepunch’s peer-to-peer technology and includes end-to-end encryption. Peer-to-peer applications exchange data directly between users’ devices rather than routing it through centrally operated servers, an architecture that pairs with encryption to keep communications confined to their endpoints.

The product manager will be responsible for shaping Keet’s future direction and supporting its path toward 1 billion users. The role includes managing the product roadmap, coordinating engineering teams and improving messaging, voice-calling and video-calling experiences across mobile and desktop platforms.

Although the position is not an AI engineering role, Tether requires candidates to use AI coding and design tools to prototype and present product concepts efficiently. The company is seeking applicants with at least 8 years of product-management experience, a background in scaling consumer applications, advanced JavaScript and React skills, and experience with mobile products and real-time communication services.

Broader Technology Hiring

The two positions form part of Tether’s wider technology hiring strategy. The company’s careers site identifies artificial intelligence, decentralized communications, finance and energy as development focus areas in addition to its stablecoin operations. For readers following Tether’s diversification, the openings offer a concrete look at how the company is staffing its non-stablecoin initiatives: on-device AI engineering at QVAC and consumer product leadership at Keet.

Both advertised positions are remote, while the QVAC engineering role is specifically listed as available worldwide. Applications are available through Tether’s official recruitment pages, where future postings across its stated focus areas can be tracked.