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 - 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 |
| 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. | Agent |
| 8 |
| 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 - 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 |
| Backend Engineer - Enterprise Backend Engineer for the Enterprise Agents Engineering Team at xAI, focusing on building full-stack solutions that integrate with systems, orchestrate workflows, and use AI to transform business operations. The role involves end-to-end product execution, customer collaboration, and iterative development. | Agent | 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 |
| Security Engineer - Platform Security Security Engineer role focused on building AI-driven security tools and agents to protect Kubernetes infrastructure and advance secure AI systems. Responsibilities include designing and implementing AI-powered security solutions, identifying vulnerabilities, and championing secure engineering practices. Requires expertise in Python, Rust, or Go, and experience with Docker and Kubernetes. | Agent | 7 |
| X Developer Platform – Forward Deployed Engineer, X API This role focuses on building production solutions, sample applications, and developer tools for enterprise customers using the X API, with a specific emphasis on AI agent integrations. The engineer will also be responsible for creating technical documentation and improving the overall developer experience. | Agent | 5 |