Member of Technical Staff - AI Experts

xAI•Palo Alto, CA

1d•$180,000 - $440,000•Onsite

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. The AI Expert team strives to build AI Scientists, Engineers, and Professionals. We train Grok to solve the most challenging agentic tasks in the real world, which require long-horizon reasoning, planning, and decision making. We have started in some high-impact domains—including math, chemistry, biology, material science, and finance—and will expand to more. Our daily work includes model evaluation, data curation, and training recipe development. We also work closely with xAI enterprise and product teams to create and improve our products and services. In this role you might: Innovate next-generation RL algorithms to unleash AI abilities in open-ended science developments and real-world professional work. Build evaluation for AI models in various applied domains. Build RL data infrastructure and generate training data.

Requirements

Strong engineering abilities.
Experience with data collection and data generation for LLMs.

Nice To Haves

Research and professional experiences in non-CS domains, such as math, physics, and finance.

Responsibilities

Innovate next-generation RL algorithms to unleash AI abilities in open-ended science developments and real-world professional work.
Build evaluation for AI models in various applied domains.
Build RL data infrastructure and generate training data.