Member of Technical Staff, Video Generation - Audio
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 Omni team at xAI creates magical AI experiences beyond text, enabling understanding and generation of content across various modalities, including image, video, and audio. As a multimodal engineer with a focus on audio, you will drive the model’s audio generation and understanding capabilities, particularly in the context of video and broader media generation. This includes advancing audio for video, music generation, general audio synthesis, speech processing, audio understanding, audio representation / tokenizer, and so on. You will contribute across data curation, modeling, inference serving, and product integration, working on both pretraining and post-training while collaborating with product teams to push the frontiers of model capability and end-to-end user experience.
Requirements
- Track record in leading studies that significantly improves the capability and performance of neural networks, whether better data or better modeling.
- Experience in data-driven experiment designs and systematic analysis for iterative model debugging.
- Experience in developing or working with large-scale distributed machine learning systems.
- Ability to do whatever is necessary to deliver the best end-to-end user experience.
- Audio-related data processing and model training experience.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in graphics engines and rendering techniques is considered an advantage.
Responsibilities
- Creating and driving research agendas to advance multimodal audio capabilities, including audio generation for video, audio understanding, audio generation, music generation, and speech generation.
- Improving data quality for audio and multimodal datasets, developing advanced annotation, filtering, augmentation, and synthetic data generation techniques, and conducting in-depth data studies.
- Designing evaluation frameworks, metrics, and internal benchmarks tailored to audio.
- Designing and implementing effective and efficient algorithms for achieving state-of-the-art model performance.
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.
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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
