xAI-posted 2 months ago
$180,000 - $440,000/Yr
Full-time • Mid Level
Palo Alto, CA
1,001-5,000 employees
Publishing Industries

xAI's mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company's mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All engineers are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.

  • People management experience with ongoing IC/TL responsibilities.
  • Designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable and horizontally scalable distributed systems.
  • Knowledge of service observability and reliability best practices.
  • Operating commonly used databases such as PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, and CockroachDB.
  • 4 to 12 years of software engineering experience, including 1+ year of people management.
  • Expert knowledge of either Rust or C++.
  • Background in full stack with in-depth understanding of product architecture.
  • Proven experience in AI or machine learning product implementation with APIs, back-end, and front-end interfaces.
  • Expertise in prompt engineering.
  • Proven expertise in Python and/or TypeScript.
  • Great verbal and written communication skills in English.
  • Ability to turn business and product ideas into engineering solutions.
  • Understanding of the HTTP protocol.
  • Strong engineering background, preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Data Science.
  • Power user of Grok.
  • Building evals for new capabilities and evaluating our systems.
  • Demonstrating an understanding of machine learning fundamentals, including model evaluation, training and fine-tuning.
  • Excellent visual, verbal, UI, and interaction skills.
  • Experience in client facing sales or delivery focused roles.
  • Deploying machine learning models to production.
  • Writing developer documentation.
  • Creating and maintaining SDKs.
  • Showcasing the ability to work with massive datasets, optimize performance, and scale systems to handle high-throughput workloads.
  • Using Pulumi or Terraform.
  • Equity
  • Comprehensive medical coverage
  • Vision coverage
  • Dental coverage
  • Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
  • Short & long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Various other discounts and perks.
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