Hardcore Engineer - Infrastructure/Supercomputing

xAI • Palo Alto, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Join our cutting-edge team at xAI to design and build the backbone of next-generation AI infrastructure. As a Hardcore Engineer, you’ll tackle complex challenges in large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, GPU optimization, and machine learning frameworks to accelerate human scientific discovery. This role is perfect for engineers who thrive on pushing hardware and software to their limits in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

Requirements

• Writing scalable and highly available containerized applications in Rust.
• Managing compute fleets with Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible, or other stateful automation libraries.
• Collaborate in a fast-paced, open environment to design and ship features.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and implement a large-scale distributed system that powers one of the world's largest supercomputing clusters.
• Dive into the low-level stack to profile, debug, and optimize performance across diverse systems, including GPUs, Linux kernel, networking, and filesystems, to achieve peak efficiency.
• Collaborate on hardware, software, and algorithm co-design to push the boundaries of AI training.
• Maintain and innovate on our codebase to ensure scalability and reliability.
• Develop tools to enhance team productivity and streamline workflows.

Benefits

• Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed