Member of Technical Staff, Web Scale Video Data

xAI•Palo Alto, CA

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. You will craft the ultimate multimodal data recipe for training an omni-model that unlocks the universe's secrets through image, audio and video. To achieve this vision, we're seeking visionary engineers with deep expertise in video data.

Requirements

Keeping up with state-of-the-art techniques for preparing multimodal training data.
Strong ability to design ML experiments.
Familiarity with state-of-the-art techniques for curating AI training data for image, audio and video modalities.
Strong engineering abilities in Spark, Ray, and other frameworks for large-scale data processing.