xAI
AI Frontier · AI lab
- HQ
- Palo Alto, US
- Founded
- 2023
- Size
- 1,000+
- Website
- x.ai
Products
AI Frontier · AI lab
xAI currently has 56 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 57%, are focused on data. Engineering is the top function for these positions, with the United States being the primary hiring country. Frequent tech tags include audio_speech, synthetic_data, and model_serving. Over the last 30 days, xAI has posted 11 new AI roles, representing a 267% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 48 active AI roles, up 103% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Data · Engineering. Salary range $148k–$600k (avg $302k).
xAI currently has 73 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: AI Tutor - Arabic, AI Tutor - Audio Editing, AI Tutor - Azerbaijani, AI Tutor - Bulgarian, AI Tutor - Catalan. Most positions are in Engineering.
xAI's active AI hiring is concentrated in: data (70%), application (8%), serving infrastructure (8%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
xAI is hiring AI talent in: United States (43 roles), United Kingdom (2 roles), Japan (1 role).
Job postings at xAI most frequently mention: Speech & Audio Processing, Linguistics, Language Modeling, Data Labeling, Dialog Systems.
In the past 30 days, xAI has posted 30 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Member of Technical Staff - Model Training This role focuses on critical modeling challenges, aiming to build useful AI models. While prior experience training models used by millions is a plus, it's not strictly required. The role emphasizes a truth-seeking AI mission and a meritocratic environment. | Data | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Reasoning This role focuses on building frameworks to enhance AI reasoning capabilities, developing distributed reinforcement learning systems, optimizing inference-time compute techniques like tree search and planning, and creating environments for agents. It requires experience with large-scale RL and distributed systems, and staying current with state-of-the-art algorithms. | AgentData |
| 9 |
| Backend Engineer - API Backend Engineer responsible for building and owning the xAI API that serves models to developers worldwide. This includes end-to-end system ownership for high-throughput, low-latency, and highly available inference, covering model serving infrastructure, request routing, SDK development, rate limiting, observability, and scaling. Requires expertise in Rust or C++, distributed systems, and observability, with preferred experience in LLM inference engines, serving frameworks, and agent orchestration. | ServeAgent | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Sandbox Service The Sandbox service team at xAI builds and maintains a secure, scalable system that gives AI models safe, controlled access to computational environments. This infrastructure powers critical workloads across training and product, enabling models to run code, build software, interact with tools, and control applications. The role involves provisioning containers and virtual machines on large-scale clusters, granting models interactive control over these remote environments, and spans full-stack development from job orchestration and resource scheduling to filesystem performance tuning. It supports real-time code execution for products like Grok and reinforcement learning in training where models explore various tools. | AgentData | 7 |
| Mobile iOS Engineer Seeking an exceptional iOS engineer to join a small, high-impact team dedicated to creating the world’s most valuable AI application, judged by the impact it delivers to users. You’ll shape cutting-edge mobile experiences, blending technical mastery with product brilliance. | — | 5 |
| Backend Engineer Backend Engineer responsible for production systems powering the API, focusing on scalable and reliable distributed systems. Requires expertise in Rust/C++, distributed systems design, observability, and databases. Familiarity with LLM APIs, embeddings, or RAG patterns is preferred. | — | 5 |
| Developer Experience Engineer xAI is seeking a Developer Experience Engineer to enhance the accessibility and usability of their AI tools and APIs, specifically Grok and other models. The role involves contributing to open-source SDKs, writing documentation, engaging with the developer community, and creating examples and tutorials. The goal is to accelerate adoption and improve the developer experience in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. | Ship | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff - X Money Software Engineer for xAI's X Money team, focused on building a global payment network. Responsibilities include backend microservices development, supporting full-stack efforts, and collaborating on payments, fraud detection, and compliance. The role emphasizes scalability, security, and reliability in a fast-paced, startup-like environment at the intersection of AI and finance. | — | 0 |
| Growth Marketing Manager – Lifecycle This role focuses on optimizing the post-acquisition customer journey for subscription products, driving engagement, retention, and revenue through personalized, automated marketing programs. It involves strategy, execution, segmentation, experimentation, and analysis across multiple channels. | — | 0 |
| Mobile Android Engineer Seeking an exceptional Android engineer to join a small, high-impact team dedicated to creating the world's most valuable AI application, judged by the impact it delivers to users. You'll shape cutting-edge mobile experiences, blending technical mastery with a keen product sense to deliver brilliance that resonates with users. You will work on the most critical product or technical challenge at any given time. | — | 0 |
| Legal Counsel Seeking a mid-level attorney to support non-U.S. regulatory litigation efforts, including responses to RFIs, investigations, and enforcement actions. Requires 5-9 years PQE with strong litigation and/or contentious regulatory experience. | — | 0 |
| Exceptional Software Engineer Software Engineer at xAI focused on critical product or technical challenges, contributing directly to the company's mission of creating AI systems to understand the universe and aid humanity. Requires exceptional software engineering skills and a belief in truth-seeking AI. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Site Reliability Engineer responsible for backend services powering products like grok.com and the API, focusing on highly scalable and reliable services hosted on Kubernetes clusters. | — | 0 |