Backend Engineer, xAI

Product Safety

$180-440k

SQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Scala

Rust

REST API

Mid, Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in San Francisco, CA or Palo Alto, CA

Building artificial intelligence

Be an early applicant

Building artificial intelligence

21-100 employees

B2CB2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMachine Learning

Be an early applicant

$180-440k

SQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Scala

Rust

REST API

Mid, Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in San Francisco, CA or Palo Alto, CA

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

A proactive problem-solver who turns ideas into reality
Experienced in designing high-performance, high-load systems for production
Passionate about AI safety and building trusted, impactful products
(Strong plus) Background in product safety or moderation platforms
(Strong plus) Familiar with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
Python (required)
Rust (strongly preferred)
Scala (familiarity preferred)
RESTful APIs, gRPC
Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes
SQL/NoSQL databases
Major cloud service providers (CSPs) or on-prem deployments

What the job involves

Join a pioneering team at xAI to ensure our AI products are safe, reliable, and exceptional for users worldwide. We’re shaping the future of AI innovation, delivering trustworthy and delightful experiences at scale
As a Backend Engineer on the Product Safety team, you’ll build robust, high-performance systems to safeguard our AI, tackling complex challenges to impact millions
This is your chance to redefine AI safety
Build distributed systems to enforce safety and integrity at scale
Create frameworks for monitoring and moderation to stay ahead of risks
Collaborate with top engineers and AI experts on seamless, user-focused safety features
Drive projects from concept to production with speed and precision

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:
Coding assessment in a language of your choice
Systems hands-on: Demonstrate practical skills in a live problem-solving session
Project deep-dive: Present your past exceptional work to a small audience
Meet and greet with the wider team
Our goal is to finish the main process within one week. 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

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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

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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