Post-training Full Stack Software Engineer, xAI
$180-440k
More information about location
Building artificial intelligence
Open for applications
Building artificial intelligence
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$180-440k
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build AI systems that can help humanity understand the world better.
Role
Who you are
- Expert full-stack developer
- Experienced in standard software engineering best practices (CI/CD) and care about code quality, testing, and performance
- Familiar with common post-training workflows such as supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback
What the job involves
- The post-training team at xAI transforms powerful pre-trained models to become steerable, versatile, and capable of understanding and addressing real-world challenges
- To accomplish this, we are looking for expert full-stack developers to join our team to improve our research tooling and advance our research
- Key responsibilities of the role include developing user-friendly, high-performance data management and visualization tools, creating model evaluation platforms and optimizing the efficiency of the entire post-training workflow
- Building user-friendly and performant data management and visualization interfaces
- Building user-friendly and performant model evaluation applications
- Building research demos to explore the frontier of AI products, and iterate quickly based on real-world feedback
- Owning end-to-end experience of the created application, and working within teams and cross functions to improve the experience
Application process
- After submitting your application, the team will review 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 technical interviews:
- 1 coding assessment in a programming language of your choice
- 2 x post-training tooling technical sessions: These sessions will be assessing your engineering skills to design and implement solutions to solve tooling problems in post-training
- Meet the Team: Present your past exceptional work and your vision with xAI to a few more members from the team
- Our goal is to finish the main process within one week. We don’t rely on recruiters for assessments. 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
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
Articles
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.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 34 more jobs at xAI