AI Engineer, xAI
Safety Alignment
$180-440k
+ Equity
5 days a week in office (Palo Alto, CA )
Building artificial intelligence
Be an early applicant
Building artificial intelligence
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$180-440k
+ Equity
5 days a week in office (Palo Alto, CA )
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build AI systems that can help humanity understand the world better.
Role
Who you are
- Has strong software engineering skills,
- Has a background in post-training or evaluating frontier AI systems,
- Is a team player and willing to pick up new skills to get the job done
What the job involves
- XAI is seeking talented researchers and engineers to improve the safety of our AI systems and ensure that they are maximally beneficial for society
- In this role, you will work toward measuring and architecting the behavior of our frontier AI systems across a wide variety of safety-relevant areas such as truth-seeking and deception.
- You will work across all stages of the model development pipeline, from collaborating with legal and product teams to iterate on policy guidelines, building new benchmarks to quantify novel behaviors, running human data collection projects, experimenting with novel post-training and reasoning training recipes, and shipping product updates to millions of users around the world
- Candidates for this role may focus on one or more of the following:
- Ensure truth-seeking behavior by Grok even in adverse situations
- Measuring and steering Grok’s propensities for deception, sycophancy, and power-seeking
- Developing and enforcing clear, consistent policy guidelines across models and products
- Building ecologically valid benchmarks to assess agentic propensities and capabilities
- We hire engineers in Palo Alto. Our team usually works from the office 5 days a week but allow work-from-home days when required. Candidates are expected to be located near Palo Alto or open to relocation
Application process
- Coding assessment in a language of your choice
- Researcher technical sessions (2): These sessions will be testing your ability to formulate, design and solve concrete problems in real world with LLM. It can be research or engineering, depending on background/experience
- Meet the Team: Present your past exceptional work and your vision with xAI to a small audience
Our take
xAI is Elon Musk's venture into the world of artificial intelligence, and like all things Musk, it's going big. Its setting out to build AI that helps humanity understand the universe and its starting with Grok, its conversational AI chatbot already integrated into X (formerly Twitter). With access to real-time data and a powerful ecosystem of Musk-led companies, xAI is certainly pushing towards artificial general intelligence at serious scale.
Like all bold ventures, xAI has faced its share of controversy, from questions about regulation to the overlap across Musk's businesses. But fans are still seeing the bigger picture: an interconnected tech ecosystem where AI, social media, and space exploration feed into one another.
Recently, the company made headlines with its massive "Colossus" supercomputer project, powered by tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs. While the data center's temporary power setup has faced environmental scrutiny, the scale of ambition is certainly undeniable. From launching tap-to-pay features on X to building one of the most powerful AI training systems on Earth, xAI is moving fast.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2025
$5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2024
$6bn
SERIES C
Total funding: $17.1bn
Company benefits
- Health and wellness: Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, and disability coverage
- Life and family: Life and AD&D insurance and fertility benefits to ensure our team’s well-being and peace of mind
- Flexible vacation: We work hard but avoid burn out. Take time off when you need it
- Visa sponsorship: We support international talent with visa sponsorship to join our team
- 401(k) plan: Retirement savings plan to secure your financial future
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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