Developer Experience, xAI
Backend & Infrastructure
+ Equity
5 days a week in office
Building artificial intelligence
Open for applications
Building artificial intelligence
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build AI systems that can help humanity understand the world better.
Role
Who you are
- You are an open source maintainer or core contributor with a track record of shipping meaningful code to public repositories that others rely on
- You have strong Typescript fullstack expertise and can build end-to-end solutions confidently
- You have previous experience in DevRel, Developer Advocacy, Developer Experience, or a closely related role where you owned community-facing technical work
Desirable
- Hands-on experience with Next.js / React for building modern web interfaces and apps
- Experience building agents in Python
- Background as an indie hacker, ex-founder, or solo builder who has shipped products independently and understands developer needs from personal experience
- We move fast, prioritize impact over process, and expect high ownership. If you're excited to make xAI the go-to platform for developers building with frontier AI, we'd love to hear from you. Apply with your GitHub profile, notable open source contributions, or examples of community work you've done
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Developer Experience Engineer to join our team at xAI
- This role combines deep technical contributions with direct community engagement to make xAI's tools and APIs accessible, powerful, and loved by developers worldwide
- You will act as a bridge between our core engineering efforts and the broader developer ecosystem, contributing code, documentation, and examples that accelerate adoption of Grok and xAI's models
- At xAI, we build AI to accelerate human scientific discovery and advance our collective understanding of the universe
- Developer Experience here is hands-on and outcome-driven: you ship real code to open source repos, solve actual developer pain points, and influence product direction through community insights and your own prototypes
- Contribute to and maintain popular open source SDKs and repositories for xAI, including pushing high-quality code, reviewing PRs, and evolving libraries that power developer integrations with our models
- Write clear, comprehensive documentation that empowers developers to build with Grok quickly and effectively
- Engage directly with the community — on X, Discord, GitHub, forums, and beyond — answering questions, gathering feedback, and turning insights into actionable improvements
- Create and ship practical examples, tutorials, reference apps, and demos that showcase best practices for using xAI APIs in real-world scenarios
- Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and research teams to identify friction in developer workflows and drive fixes or new features
- Help shape how developers experience xAI in an era of rapid AI advancement, focusing on speed, reliability, and innovation
- Candidates must be willing to attend late meetings at least once a week to coordinate with the rest of our team in Palo Alto
Application process
- After submitting your application, the team reviews your statement of exceptional work and CV. If your application passes this stage, the interview process is as follows:
- Initial technical screening during which a member of our team will ask some basic technical questions (15 minutes)
- Coding interview (45 minutes)
- Distributed systems design (45 minutes)
- Final stage (30 minutes)
- All interviews will be conducted via Google Meet
Salary benchmarks
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jan 2026
$20bn
SERIES E
Jul 2025
$5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $37.1bn
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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