Data and Infrastructure Engineer, xAI

Multimodal

$180-440k

Kubernetes

Python

Rust

Spark

CUDA

PyTorch

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

Building artificial intelligence

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Building artificial intelligence

21-100 employees

B2CB2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMachine Learning

Be an early applicant

$180-440k

Kubernetes

Python

Rust

Spark

CUDA

PyTorch

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

21-100 employees

B2CB2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMachine Learning

Company mission

To build AI systems that can help humanity understand the world better.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Expert in developing software for large-scale distributed machine learning systems
Expert in Spark, GPUs, Kubernetes, and JAX (or PyTorch)
Experienced in standard software engineering best practices (CI/CD) and care about code quality, testing, and performance

What the job involves

The multimodal team at xAI creates magical AI experiences beyond text, enabling understanding and generation of content across various modalities, including image, video, and audio
To accomplish this, we are looking for experienced data and infrastructure engineers to develop and optimize data pipelines related to multimodal data (such as images, videos, and audio), including acquisition, preprocessing, data loading, visualization and management
Building tools to assist the acquisition of multimedia data
Building petabyte-scale, high-throughput data processing systems for multimodal data (including text, images, videos, and audio)
Building high-throughput, and low-latency data decoding and loading pipelines for supporting efficient large-scale training of multimodal models
Building visualization and management tools for all categories of datasets in house

Application process

After submitting your application, the team reviews your CV and statement of exceptional work
If your application passes this stage, you will be invited to a 15 minute interview (“phone interview”) during which a member of our team will ask some basic questions
If you clear the initial phone interview, you will enter the main process, which consists of four technical interviews:
One-on-one research discussion & coding interviews (three meetings total)
Meet the Team: Present your past exceptional work and your vision with xAI to a small audience
Every application is reviewed by a member of our technical team. All interviews will be conducted via Google Meet

Our take

xAI is dedicated to tackling the limitations of current AI systems by developing Grok, an AI model designed to provide accurate, reliable, and witty responses to a wide range of queries. Grok is equipped with real-time knowledge access, allowing it to offer insightful answers and even suggest relevant questions.

The company is focused on enhancing Grok's reasoning abilities, reliability, and safety through research directions such as scalable oversight mechanisms, formal verification techniques, and adversarial robustness improvements. Additionally, xAI aims to broaden Grok's applicability by integrating multimodal capabilities like vision and audio, enabling real-time interactions and assistance in various domains.

As xAI continues to refine Grok's capabilities, the company envisions a future where AI serves as a powerful tool for advancing scientific understanding, fostering innovation, and contributing to societal well-being.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Dec 2024

$6bn

SERIES C

May 2024

$6bn

SERIES B

Total funding: $12.1bn

Company benefits

Medical, vision, dental
STD, LTD and life insurance

Company HQ

Downtown, Burlingame, CA

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Leadership

Elon Musk

(Founder)

Founder, chairman, CEO, and CTO of SpaceX. CEO and product architect of Tesla. Chairman and CTO of X Corp, founder of the Boring Company, co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI, and president of the Musk Foundation.

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