Member of Technical Staff, Pre-training Data

xAI • Palo Alto, CA

56d • 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 pre-training data team at xAI is dedicated to crafting the ultimate data recipe for training an omni-model that unlocks the universe's secrets through text, image, video, and audio. To achieve this vision, we're seeking visionary engineers with deep expertise in multimodal pre-training data.

Requirements

• Expertise in ML and large model scaling, with familiarity across all kinds of scaling laws.
• Strong ability to design ML experiments.
• Familiarity with state-of-the-art techniques for curating AI training data for text, image, audio, and video modalities.
• Strong engineering abilities in Spark, Ray, and other frameworks for large-scale data processing.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the crawling team to discover and source datasets.
• Architect pipelines to transform datasets at petabyte scales with efficiency and precision.
• Develop robust and diverse evaluations for pre-training models.
• Craft insightful experiments to assess dataset performance.
• Innovate the recipe for scaling pre-training data to new frontiers.

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
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees