Product Engineering Lead – QVAC

Tether.to

. Lead the teams building QV.AC features and app experience on top of the local AI stack .

Posted 10/9/2026full-timeRemote • SwitzerlandSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in managing engineering teams to deliver AI-powered consumer products, with a strong focus on technical design, performance, and collaboration. Proficient in leveraging AI tools and frameworks to drive product innovation and team success.

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Engineering Team ManagementAI-Powered Product DevelopmentJavaScript and React ExpertiseTechnical Design OwnershipExcellent English Communication

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Hard Skills

AI ToolsTechnical DesignJavaScriptReactOn-Device InferenceModel EvaluationAPI DevelopmentCross-Platform DevelopmentFeature Reliability AssessmentRapid Prototyping

Soft Skills

Product SenseCuriosityResilienceDirect CritiqueTeam Mentoring

Industry Keywords

Consumer ProductsLocal AI StackDeep TechModel SizeLatencyMemoryBattery ConstraintsCross-Team CollaborationProduct RoadmapFeature Scoping

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaScriptOpen SourceReact

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the teams building QV.AC features and app experience on top of the local AI stack
Report directly to the CTO and take direction from product
Run app and feature teams day to day by unblocking work, reviewing work, and keeping teams shipping
Set and maintain a high engineering bar for performance, reliability, and clean APIs
Own technical design of features and the API surface between the AI core and app
Coordinate closely with AI research and deep tech teams on code reviews, design, models, and inference
Partner with product managers to turn vision and roadmap into scoped, buildable work
Challenge unrealistic scope and propose better implementation paths
Bring engineering perspective to product decisions involving local model capabilities
Use AI tools and rapid prototypes to validate ideas
Create clarity around team goals and success criteria
Mentor team leads and improve team operating systems and cross-team collaboration
Lead by example while enabling teams to take ownership

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience managing engineers or engineering leads who ship consumer products, ideally AI-powered apps
Strong product sense
Intuition for applied AI and on-device constraints, including model size, latency, memory, and battery
Ability to distinguish reliable features from demos
Heavy use of AI tools and enthusiasm for experimenting with new models and capabilities
Deep JavaScript and React expertise
Initiative, curiosity, resilience, and ability to give and receive direct critique
Preferred: experience with local or on-device inference, LLM evals, cross-platform mobile and desktop apps, or open source
Excellent English communication skills

Benefits

Comp & perks

Remote work from anywhere in the world
Collaboration with a global team
Opportunity to work on innovative fintech, blockchain, AI, and peer-to-peer technology products
Work with cutting-edge local, on-device, privacy-preserving AI
Opportunity to contribute to Tether’s digital finance ecosystem