Full Stack Engineer
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. We need talented full stack engineers to build complete interactive web applications (frontend UI, backend services, programmatic task generation, and automated validation systems). This role involves taking full ownership of the development process for creating polished, functional, and scalable web environments.
Requirements
- Strong professional experience with React.js (hooks, modern state management) — required
- Strong professional experience building backend services in one or more of the following languages: Python, Go, Java, C++, C#, JavaScript/Node.js, Rust, or C — required
- Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker required; Docker Compose/Kubernetes a plus)
- Strong front-end design skills and exceptionally high taste in UI/UX, polish, and visual detail
- Proven ability to design a relational database schema and populate it with large-scale, realistic mock data
- Experience creating and exposing clean, well-documented API endpoints (REST or GraphQL)
- Exceedingly high standards for code quality, readability, testing, and front-end craftsmanship
- Extensive day-to-day experience using coding agents / AI assistants as a power user (Cursor, Claude, Copilot, Grok, Aider, etc.)
Nice To Haves
- Possess strong logical reasoning skills, is detail-oriented, and thrives in a fast-paced work environment.
- Eager to teach and learn from teammates.
- Enthusiasm to collaboratively build the best truth-seeking AI out there!
Responsibilities
- Build high-quality, interactive sandbox UIs with exceptional polish and user experience.
- Develop robust backend services to power the applications.
- Programmatically generate tasks and implement reliable validation logic for task completion.
- Someone who enjoys working remotely.
Benefits
- Hourly pay is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI. Specific benefits vary by country, depending on your country of residence you may have access to medical benefits.
- We do not offer benefits for part-time roles.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
