xAI
AI Frontier · AI lab
- HQ
- Palo Alto, US
- Founded
- 2023
- Size
- 1,000+
- Website
- x.ai
Products
AI Frontier · AI lab
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 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.
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 - Pre-Training xAI is seeking a Member of Technical Staff focused on Pre-Training to train trillion-parameter neural networks at scale. The role involves implementing state-of-the-art methods, innovating in pretraining and scaling paradigms, and requires strong engineering skills in model-hardware co-design, ML scaling laws, and distributed training for efficiency. | Pretrain | 10 |
| Software Engineer - Evals Software Engineer for the Evals team at xAI, responsible for building and maintaining systems to measure AI model capabilities and behaviors, including dataset design, grading schemes, and execution infrastructure. The role focuses on creating tools that accelerate frontier research and diagnose agent failures. | Eval Gate |
| 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff - RL Training Framework Seeking an engineer to develop the RL training framework for large-scale RL workloads, focusing on performance, scalability, and observability. Requires experience with distributed systems and Python/Jax/Rust/C++. | DataPost-train | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff - RL Inference Engineer to optimize inference stack for RL workloads, analyze performance bottlenecks, and implement novel RL techniques. Requires experience in distributed systems, LLM inference, and programming languages like Python/C++/Rust with frameworks like PyTorch/Jax/CUDA. Preferred skills include quantization, numerics, and inference engines. | ServePost-train | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff xAI is seeking a Member of Technical Staff to build collaborative relationships, define vision and strategy, and deliver impactful projects. The role involves hands-on technical problems, cutting-edge research in AI and deep learning (neural network architectures, language modeling, speech recognition), and working on large language model training, pipeline parallelism, and fine-tuning with truthful data. The position also involves identifying technological differentiation, mentoring senior leaders, and driving innovation in quantitative reasoning and language understanding. | Post-trainPretrain | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Post-Training and RL This role focuses on critical post-training and reinforcement learning challenges for AI models, including reward modeling, preference optimization (RLHF/DPO), and RL for improving reasoning, truthfulness, and real-world capabilities. The goal is to build useful models through these techniques. | Post-train | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Multimodal Understanding xAI is seeking a Member of Technical Staff for their Multimodal Understanding team to advance superhuman multimodal intelligence. The role involves working across the full stack of multimodal AI, from data curation and pre-training to post-training, inference, evaluation, and end-to-end product experiences. Responsibilities include designing and optimizing large-scale distributed systems, developing data pipelines, advancing multimodal capabilities, creating evaluation frameworks, and innovating on algorithms and scaling paradigms. The role requires hands-on experience with multimodal pre-training/post-training/fine-tuning, proficiency in Python and ML frameworks, and proven track record in building large-scale distributed ML systems and data pipelines. | Post-trainPretrain | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Model Training xAI is seeking a Member of Technical Staff focused on Model Training. The role involves working on critical modeling challenges and building useful AI models. While prior experience training models used by millions is a plus, it's not strictly required. The company emphasizes truth-seeking AI and a meritocratic environment. | Data | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Voice Model The role focuses on building and improving voice AI models for natural, low-latency spoken interactions. This involves large-scale data curation, speech-language model pre-training and post-training, and developing a comprehensive evaluation framework. The goal is to integrate these models into real-time applications for a global scale deployment. | Post-trainData | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Model xAI is seeking a multimodal engineer to develop AI experiences beyond text, focusing on image and video understanding and generation, with audio integration. Responsibilities include data curation, modeling, training, inference serving, and product integration, covering pretraining and post-training phases. The role involves creating engineering agendas, improving data quality, designing evaluation frameworks, implementing efficient algorithms for real-time inference and serving, and developing scalable data pipelines for multimodal datasets. Collaboration with product teams for production integration and iteration based on user feedback is key. | Post-trainServe | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Mid-training This role focuses on scaling synthetic data for AI training, distilling model intelligence, optimizing data mixtures for RL, engineering long-context data, and developing evaluations for mid-training checkpoints. It requires expertise in ML scaling laws, experimental design, curating multi-modal AI training data, and large-scale data processing frameworks. | DataPost-train | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Inference The role focuses on designing and optimizing large-scale model serving systems for high-performance inference, ensuring speed and reliability for millions of users. Responsibilities include architecting distributed infrastructure, optimizing latency and throughput, building high-concurrency systems, and accelerating inference engines. | Serve | 9 |
| Human Data Engineer This role focuses on creating and executing human data projects to provide high-quality tasks and evaluations for AI model training. The Human Data Engineer partners with model teams, designs projects to capture signals, drives data yield and evaluation lift, and influences data strategy. They are responsible for end-to-end delivery of data and evaluation projects, building tools to measure data effectiveness, maintaining data integrity, and researching techniques for data collection, annotation, generation, and multimodal integration. The role also involves shaping model behavior through targeted data work and collaborating with operations teams to scale projects. | DataEval Gate | 8 |
| ML Infrastructure Engineer xAI is seeking an ML Infrastructure Engineer to build and optimize the reliable, high-performance ML platform powering their recommendations. This role involves designing and scaling GPU compute infrastructure, training frameworks, and experimentation tools, developing data pipelines, and integrating large-scale data, training, and inference systems. The engineer will collaborate with ML teams to productionize models, ensure scalability, reliability, and efficiency, and work across the full stack. Requires 2+ years of industry experience with large-scale production environments, distributed systems, GPU infrastructure, and ML platforms, proficiency in Python and C++/Rust, and familiarity with ML frameworks like JAX/PyTorch and Linux/orchestration tools. | Serve | 8 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Safety This role focuses on building and scaling safety systems for a multimodal generative AI platform (Grok), ensuring responsible deployment of images, video, and audio generation. It involves designing safeguards, detection systems, and evaluation frameworks to prevent harm, mitigate risks, and improve safety through feedback loops, while also ensuring high performance and low latency. | Eval GateAgent | 8 |
| Member of Technical Staff - X Search The X Search team is responsible for building and operating the core search engine that powers discovery on X. This role involves building and operating large-scale search engines and infrastructure, training state-of-the-art ML ranking models, and integrating Grok's reasoning capabilities into search systems and products. The role requires experience with vector databases, search indices, and production ML systems. | ShipAgent | 8 |
| Data Engineer xAI is seeking a Data Engineer to build and maintain production-grade data pipelines, tooling, and software systems for data acquisition, preparation, quality evaluation, and delivery for model training. The role involves analyzing data performance, investigating anomalies, and researching methods to improve data quality, with a focus on enabling effective and reliable model training. | Data | 8 |
| Backend Engineer - API Backend Engineer responsible for building and owning the xAI API, focusing on high-throughput, low-latency inference for LLMs. This includes model serving infrastructure, request routing, rate limiting, observability, and scaling, with potential involvement in agent SDKs and orchestration. | ServeAgent | 8 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Product This role focuses on building and scaling systems for AI-driven media experiences, specifically for Grok users. It involves designing and implementing scalable infrastructure for real-time multi-modal interactions, processing various media types, and collaborating with research and product teams to deliver consumer-facing features. The role emphasizes full-cycle development from design to deployment and monitoring, aiming to reach hundreds of millions of users. | ShipServe | 8 |
| Member of Technical Staff - RL Infrastructure This role focuses on building infrastructure and frameworks to support AI agents, data processing, and model evaluations, with a strong emphasis on RL training and automation. The primary output is the agent environment and associated tooling, with secondary contributions to data pipelines for RL training. | AgentData | 8 |
| AI Tutor - Slovak The role involves training and refining AI models (Grok) for multilingual audio capabilities, focusing on voice interactions, speech recognition, and auditory experiences. Responsibilities include annotating audio data, translating text, and collaborating with technical staff to improve AI's handling of speech nuances, accents, and noise. The goal is to enhance Grok's global accessibility and natural spoken interactions. | Data | 7 |
| AI Tutor - Romanian The role focuses on training and refining AI models (Grok) for multilingual audio capabilities, including voice interactions and speech recognition. Responsibilities involve curating and annotating audio data, translating text, and collaborating with technical staff to improve AI's handling of speech nuances, accents, and noise. The core of the role is data preparation and annotation for audio AI. | Data | 7 |
| AI Tutor - Sorani Kurdish The role focuses on training and refining AI models, specifically Grok, for multilingual audio capabilities. This involves curating and annotating high-quality audio data, translating content into Sorani Kurdish, and collaborating with technical staff to improve AI's handling of diverse speech patterns and audio nuances. The goal is to enhance Grok's global accessibility and enable natural spoken interactions. | Data | 7 |
| AI Tutor - Khmer The role focuses on training and refining AI models (Grok) for multilingual audio capabilities, including voice interactions, speech recognition, and auditory experiences. Responsibilities involve curating and annotating high-quality audio data, translating and localizing text, and collaborating with technical staff to improve AI's handling of multilingual audio nuances and annotation tools. | Data | 7 |
| AI Tutor - Azerbaijani The role involves training and refining AI models for multilingual audio capabilities, focusing on voice interactions, speech recognition, and auditory experiences. Responsibilities include annotating audio data, translating text, and collaborating with technical staff to improve AI's handling of diverse speech patterns and audio quality. The goal is to enhance the AI's global accessibility and natural spoken interactions. | DataPost-train | 7 |
| AI Tutor - Slovenian The role involves training and refining AI models for multilingual audio capabilities, focusing on voice interactions, speech recognition, and auditory experiences. Responsibilities include annotating audio data, translating text, and collaborating with technical staff to improve AI's handling of speech nuances and multilingual audio processing. | Data | 7 |
| AI Tutor - Lithuanian The role focuses on training and refining AI models (Grok) for multilingual audio capabilities, including voice interactions, speech recognition, and auditory experiences. Responsibilities involve curating and annotating high-quality audio data, translating text, and collaborating with technical staff to improve AI's handling of multilingual audio nuances and annotation tools. | Data | 7 |
| AI Tutor - Serbian This role focuses on training and refining AI models (Grok) for multilingual audio capabilities, including voice interactions, speech recognition, and auditory experiences. Responsibilities involve curating and annotating high-quality audio data, translating and localizing text, and collaborating with technical staff to improve AI's handling of multilingual audio nuances and annotation tools. | Data | 7 |
| AI Tutor - Igbo The role focuses on training and refining AI models (Grok) for multilingual audio capabilities, including voice interactions, speech recognition, and auditory experiences. Responsibilities involve curating and annotating high-quality audio data, translating and localizing text, and collaborating with technical staff to improve AI's handling of diverse audio nuances and annotation tools. | Data | 7 |
| AI Tutor - Yoruba The role focuses on training and refining AI models for multilingual audio capabilities, specifically in Yoruba. Responsibilities include annotating audio data, translating text, and collaborating with technical staff to improve speech processing and annotation tools. The goal is to enhance the AI's global accessibility and natural spoken interactions. | Data | 7 |
| AI Tutor - Ukrainian The role involves training and refining an AI model (Grok) for multilingual audio capabilities. Responsibilities include annotating audio data, translating text, and collaborating with technical staff to improve AI's handling of speech nuances, accents, and noise. The focus is on enhancing global accessibility and natural spoken interactions. | Data | 7 |
| AI Tutor - Kannada The role involves training and refining AI models (Grok) for multilingual audio capabilities, focusing on voice interactions, speech recognition, and auditory experiences. Responsibilities include annotating audio data, translating and localizing text, and collaborating with technical staff to improve AI's handling of speech nuances and multilingual audio processing. | Data | 7 |
| AI Tutor - Hausa The role focuses on training and refining AI models for multilingual audio capabilities, specifically Grok, by curating and annotating high-quality audio data. Responsibilities include labeling audio clips, translating text into Hausa, supporting data delivery for clear spoken output, and collaborating on tasks to improve AI's handling of speech variations and multilingual audio processing. The role requires native Hausa proficiency, English proficiency, strong auditory perception, and experience with audio transcription and translation. | Data | 7 |
| AI Tutor - Farsi The role focuses on training and refining AI models (Grok) for multilingual audio capabilities, specifically in Farsi. Responsibilities include annotating audio data, translating text, and collaborating with technical staff to improve AI's handling of speech, accents, and noise. The goal is to enhance Grok's global accessibility and natural spoken interactions. | Data | 7 |
| AI Tutor - Czech The role focuses on training and refining AI models (Grok) for multilingual audio capabilities, including voice interactions, speech recognition, and auditory experiences. Responsibilities involve curating and annotating high-quality audio data, translating and localizing text, and collaborating with technical staff to improve AI's handling of multilingual audio nuances and annotation tools. The core of the work is data preparation and annotation for AI model training. | Data | 7 |
| AI Tutor - Croatian The role involves training and refining AI models (Grok) for multilingual audio capabilities, focusing on voice interactions, speech recognition, and auditory experiences. Responsibilities include annotating audio data, translating text, and collaborating with technical staff to improve AI's handling of multilingual audio nuances and annotation tools. | Data | 7 |
| AI Tutor - Bulgarian The role involves training and refining AI models (Grok) for multilingual audio capabilities, focusing on voice interactions, speech recognition, and auditory experiences. Responsibilities include annotating audio data, translating text, and collaborating with technical staff to improve AI's handling of speech nuances across various languages and accents. | Data | 7 |
| Software Engineer - Platform Infrastructure (Rust, C++) Software Engineer focused on building and optimizing large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure for AI training clusters, involving low-level systems programming and hardware/software co-design. | ServeData | 7 |
| Software Engineer: Network (C++) Develops core networking software for a massive GPU cluster powering AI models, focusing on high-performance, low-latency datacenter fabric for training efficiency and reliability. | Serve | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff This role involves writing code and tests for production services, offline jobs, and internal tools, building scalable storage systems, libraries, and frameworks. It also includes deploying and maintaining production services, focusing on scalability, resilience, and efficiency. The role requires collecting and analyzing data, planning, implementing, and validating solutions, with specific experience in large language models, recommendation algorithms, cloud infrastructure, probabilistic modeling for product optimization and safety evaluation, and safety-related content classification. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Data Software Engineer on the Data team at xAI, responsible for developing applications that power data acquisition, preparation, training, quality evaluation, and delivery for model training. Focuses on building a reliable, scalable enterprise data platform to ensure models are trained on high-quality data. | Data | 7 |
| Senior Data Analyst- Fraud & AML Senior Data Scientist role focused on modernizing and strengthening financial crime detection capabilities by architecting, building, and optimizing data-driven transaction monitoring models, coverage assessment frameworks, and advanced analytics solutions to support BSA/AML regulatory compliance. The role involves working with Python, SQL, and AI-enabled tooling, partnering with a Compliance Machine Learning team, and supporting regulatory examinations. | DataPost-train | 7 |
| Senior Analyst, Safety Operations This role focuses on training and refining Grok (an LLM) to enforce terms of service, minimize risks, and prevent harmful content. Responsibilities include monitoring content, processing appeals, auditing automations, labeling data, and collaborating to improve AI defenses. Requires expertise in improving LLMs for safety and enforcement, experience in online safety, policy interpretation, data analysis, and ethical reasoning. Preferred experience includes Trust and Safety roles in social media and red-teaming LLMs. | Post-trainData | 7 |
| Manager, Safety Operations Manager for Safety Operations at xAI, responsible for leading a team that trains and refines Grok (an LLM) to enforce terms of service, minimize risks, and prevent harmful content. The role involves managing analysts, overseeing data labeling, ensuring quality curated data for ethical alignment, identifying abuse vectors, and improving AI defenses. Requires leadership experience in AI-driven operations and expertise in LLM improvement for safety and efficiency. | Post-train | 7 |
| Senior Analyst, Legal Operations This role focuses on enhancing legal operations systems and processes by assessing and handling legal requests from global government entities. The Senior Analyst will process high-volume content-removal and user-information production requests, leveraging expertise in legal operations, regulatory compliance, and content moderation. A key aspect of the role involves collaborating with technical teams to design, train, and refine AI agents, curate training data, and build scalable automation tools. The position requires strong analytical and risk-judgment skills, with a focus on optimizing AI-driven automation for legal and compliance workflows. | AgentData | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Voice Product The role focuses on building and shipping voice features for the Grok product, involving backend engineering for scalable, low-latency voice infrastructure and model integrations. The goal is to drive performance, reliability, and quality of voice interactions at a global scale. | Serve | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Compute Infrastructure The role involves building and optimizing large-scale GPU clusters and the platform layer for AI training and inference. Responsibilities include low-level CUDA kernel development, Linux kernel internals, custom orchestration, and performance debugging across the full stack to accelerate AI model development. | ServeAgent | 7 |
| Image Tutor This role focuses on training and refining AI image generation capabilities by providing labeled data, annotations, and inputs. The specialist will leverage expertise in visual arts and AI image generation tools to enhance the AI's understanding of visual content. | Data | 7 |
| Accounting Expert - Tax This role involves applying deep tax expertise to train AI models to accurately understand and reason through complex tax issues. The expert will evaluate tax scenarios, guide AI interpretation of tax law, and critique AI-generated tax conclusions, directly influencing the quality and accuracy of AI systems in the tax domain. The role requires collaboration with technical teams to improve data quality and annotation tools, and to provide rigorous solutions and model critiques. | DataPost-train | 7 |
| Head of GTM - Systems & Agents This role focuses on building and operating AI agents and automated systems to support xAI's global Go-To-Market (GTM) organization, aiming to directly generate revenue through forecasting, CRM automation, and revenue capture. It requires a hands-on builder with experience in AI/LLM-powered agent workflows for revenue operations and sales. | Agent | 7 |