Engineering Technical Lead Manager (TLM) - Enterprise

xAI • Palo Alto, CA

87d • $180,000 - $440,000

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript.
• Strong communication skills in English.
• Understanding of the HTTP protocol.
• Strong engineering background, preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, and Data Science.

Nice To Haves

• Power user of Grok.
• Experience in client facing sales or delivery focused roles.
• Demonstrating an understanding of machine learning fundamentals, including model evaluation, training and fine-tuning.
• Experience in 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.

Responsibilities

• Manage people while also taking on individual contributor (IC) and team lead (TL) responsibilities.
• Design, implement, and maintain reliable and horizontally scalable distributed systems.
• Ensure service observability and reliability best practices are followed.
• Operate commonly used databases such as PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, and CockroachDB.

Benefits

• Equity
• Comprehensive medical coverage
• Vision coverage
• Dental coverage
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
• Short & long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Various discounts and perks

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees