xAI
AI Frontier · AI lab
- HQ
- Palo Alto, US
- Founded
- 2023
- Size
- 1,000+
- Website
- x.ai
Products
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).
AI Frontier · AI lab
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 - Grok Product This role is on the Grok Main Product team, responsible for the user-facing chat portal at grok.com and related experiences. The team builds highly scalable frontends, APIs, and features that handle tens of thousands of queries per second, aiming to make Grok an essential 'everything app' that amplifies human productivity. The role involves owning end-to-end features, collaborating with model and research teams, and shipping breakthroughs at pace. | Ship | 5 |
| Video Tutor This role focuses on training and refining AI models (specifically Grok) for video interpretation and generation by providing labels, annotations, and curated data. It requires expertise in video editing, motion graphics, and VFX, with a strong understanding of post-production techniques. | Data |
| 5 |
| Security Engineer - Governance Risk Compliance Seeking an experienced Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) team member to ensure xAI operates within regulatory, ethical, operational, and federal boundaries for AI development and deployment, including support for sensitive and classified environments. | — | 5 |
| 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. Responsibilities include dreaming up and crafting delightful, intuitive user experiences that redefine how people interact with AI on mobile, obsessing over every pixel, animation, and interaction, building blazing-fast, highly performant systems, and driving technical and product decisions, collaborating with AI researchers and engineers to deploy state-of-the-art models globally. | — | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Real-Time Storage Seeking exceptional storage & database engineers to integrate xAI's advanced AI infrastructure into a platform used by 600 million users monthly. The role involves building xAI's new storage tier for training, inference, recommendations, and real-time data extraction, including an exabyte-scale object store, a high-throughput key/value store, a massive caching tier, and a scalable vector database for recommendation systems. | — | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Media This role focuses on building and optimizing large-scale video services and media processing pipelines for a platform with 600 million monthly users. While it leverages xAI's advanced AI infrastructure, the core responsibilities are in media engineering, performance optimization, and distributed systems, rather than direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Observability Build and operate the core infrastructure for monitoring, debugging, and optimizing AI systems, handling telemetry at massive scale with strict performance and availability requirements. Own critical systems for metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting to enable engineering teams to operate services, identify issues, and drive reliability improvements. | — | 5 |
| Application Security Engineer Application Security Engineer responsible for ensuring the security and integrity of cloud-native applications and systems, focusing on code security, CI/CD pipelines, and AI technologies, including securing AI/ML models and data pipelines. | — | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Data Platform Software engineer on the Data Platform team responsible for building and operating infrastructure for large-scale data transport and processing, including Kafka, HDFS, Spark, Flink, and Trino, to support real-time ML pipelines, feed ranking, experimentation, analytics, and observability at petabyte scale. The role involves designing, building, and operating distributed systems for data movement and compute, focusing on scalability, performance, and reliability. | — | 1 |
| Network Engineer xAI is seeking a Network Engineer to join their team. The role involves managing and evolving a global network, ensuring reliability, performance, and security. Responsibilities include defining configuration and architecture standards, provisioning network devices and circuits, improving operational procedures, monitoring network performance, and troubleshooting issues. The ideal candidate will have a basic understanding of BGP, backbone and datacenter networks, wireless technologies, routing protocols, corporate networking, TCP/IP, and remote access, with strong documentation and communication skills. Familiarity with various networking vendors, network security, and scripting/automation is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Senior BSA/AML Investigator (Sat - Wed) This role is for a Senior BSA/AML Investigator focused on detecting, preventing, and reporting financial crimes within a fintech/banking context. Responsibilities include investigating alerts, preparing SARs, conducting EDD, and collaborating with internal teams on compliance initiatives. Requires 4+ years of AML experience, familiarity with financial crime risks in digital payments, and knowledge of BSA/AML laws and regulations. | — | 0 |
| Fraud Analyst Seeking a Fraud Analyst to join the BSA/AML team, focusing on detecting, investigating, and mitigating financial crime risks, particularly fraud. The role involves monitoring alerts, reviewing customer activity, conducting due diligence, collaborating with engineering on risk mitigation, documenting investigations, assisting in rule development, staying updated on regulations, and supporting audits. Requires 2+ years of experience in fraud investigation/operations/risk management in financial services/fintech, knowledge of BSA/AML/OFAC, and experience with relevant tools. | — | 0 |
| Operations Engineer (Facility Operations) Operations Engineer role focused on designing, building, and activating data center facilities. Responsibilities include process flow, project planning, developing metrics and dashboards, SQL analysis, and automation for efficiency. Requires a Bachelor's degree in engineering and 1+ years of operations/process improvement experience. | — | 0 |
| Client Partner Seeking a Client Partner to drive revenue growth for xAI by building relationships with Fortune 500 companies and their advertising agencies. The role involves creating consultative sales strategies to showcase advertising products and help advertisers connect with consumers. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Data Center Operations This role manages data center operations technicians to ensure the uptime and efficiency of AI compute infrastructure. Responsibilities include overseeing power, cooling, networking, hardware deployments, team leadership, incident resolution, and supporting AI workloads. The role requires experience in data center operations and team management, with a preference for experience in AI/ML or HPC environments. | — | 0 |
| Supervisor, Data Center Operations This role is for a Data Center Supervisor at SpaceXAI responsible for overseeing the health and performance of server and network infrastructure, leading a team of technicians, and ensuring optimal operations. The focus is on maintaining and improving data center infrastructure, not on AI/ML model development or research. | — | 0 |
| Office Coordinator Office Coordinator role at xAI, focusing on managing daily office operations, budget, vendor relationships, event planning, and ensuring a productive and welcoming workplace. This is a support role not directly involved in AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - Search Infrastructure Software Engineer focused on designing and building scalable, high-performance search infrastructure, including real-time indexing, serving, and data pipelines. The role involves operating production services end-to-end, leading incident responses, and shaping the technical direction of core search infrastructure. Requires proficiency in high-performance languages like Rust, C++, or JVM-based languages, and hands-on experience with search and indexing technologies. | — | 0 |
| IT Services Technician (Memphis) This role provides advanced technical guidance and service to end-users, resolves complex IT issues, and collaborates with Level 1 technicians and senior IT staff to ensure seamless technology operations. The ideal candidate is a problem-solver with strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and a commitment to delivering outstanding customer service. | — | 0 |
| IT Services Technician (Bellevue) This role is for an IT Services Technician responsible for providing second-line technical assistance for hardware, software, and network issues, diagnosing and resolving complex technical problems, managing user accounts, deploying and maintaining hardware and software, monitoring IT systems, documenting resolutions, supporting IT projects, training junior technicians, and ensuring compliance with IT policies. The role requires 2-4 years of experience in IT or a related technical role, strong knowledge of operating systems and network protocols, and experience with IT service management tools. | — | 0 |
| Operational Technology Engineer SpaceXAI is seeking an Operational Technology (OT) Engineer to design, implement, and optimize industrial control and monitoring systems for their hyperscale data center campuses and co-located power generation facilities. This role involves architecting resilient OT infrastructure for BMS, EPMS, SCADA, and PLC systems, supporting ultra-dense AI compute loads and massive power infrastructure. The engineer will be hands-on with network design, industrial communication protocols, cybersecurity, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure seamless integration and high availability of control systems. | — | 0 |
| Supervisor, Facilities This role is for a Facilities Supervisor responsible for designing, building, activating, and maintaining technically advanced facilities. The supervisor will lead a team in performing inspections, testing, maintenance, and repair of campus-wide systems including mechanical/HVAC, electrical, compressed air, dust collectors, and plumbing. Responsibilities include scheduling work, prioritizing assignments, developing and executing site improvement projects, ensuring safety procedures are followed, managing vendor/contractor finances, and overseeing team performance. | — | 0 |
| Facilities Maintenance Technician This role is for a Facilities Maintenance Technician responsible for building, activating, and maintaining advanced data centers. The technician will maintain and repair HVAC, plumbing, and mechanical systems, perform failure assessments, and ensure compliance with codes and specifications. The role requires hands-on work, troubleshooting, and collaboration with engineers and technicians to support the company's mission. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - Platform Core (C++, C) Software Engineer focused on building and maintaining the core operating system and drivers for a supercomputer network fabric, collaborating with hardware teams on next-generation hardware. | — | 0 |
| Analyst, Law Enforcement Response Team This role is part of the Safety Team at SpaceXAI, focusing on managing global information requests and policy enforcement to protect user privacy and freedom of expression. It involves handling legal requests, collaborating with international teams, improving processes, and participating in an on-call rotation. The role requires strong attention to detail, communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment. | — | 0 |
| Fire Protection Engineer SpaceXAI is looking for a Fire Protection Engineer to provide engineering design support and subject matter expertise in fire protection, life safety, building and fire codes, fire hazard and risk assessment, and industrial fire hazards. The role involves supporting the design, analysis, and specification of fire protection systems for SpaceX launch facilities, performing hazardous material analysis, and ensuring code compliance. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in engineering, 2+ years of experience in fire protection systems design and construction, and knowledge of relevant codes and standards. | — | 0 |
| Director, Data Center Facilities Operations SpaceXAI is seeking a Director of Data Center Facilities Operations to lead the strategic leadership, reliability, and operational excellence of all data center facilities infrastructure across an entire SpaceX site. This role owns the full lifecycle of critical infrastructure supporting multiple data centers, ensuring zero unplanned downtime and maximum availability for mission-critical operations. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Facilities Operations This role is for a Facilities Operations Manager responsible for the reliability, performance, and continuous improvement of data center infrastructure, including power, cooling, and environmental systems. The manager will lead a team, oversee maintenance, implement optimization programs, ensure safety compliance, and manage vendor relationships. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in a related engineering field and extensive experience in managing critical facilities systems and leading technical teams. | — | 0 |
| Security Engineer - GRC Fintech & Financial Services Experienced GRC Engineer focused on fintech and financial services regulation to scale compliance for SpaceXAI and xMoney. Responsibilities include owning financial services compliance posture, building Compliance-as-Code capabilities, operating GRC platforms, partnering with engineering on controls, designing technical controls, managing risk registers, leading risk assessments, and managing external auditor relationships. Requires 8+ years of experience in GRC/security compliance/technology audit in regulated financial environments, with hands-on experience in PCI DSS and NYDFS or FFIEC, and Compliance-as-Code practices. | — | 0 |
| Lead, Hardware Deployment Engineer Lead the end-to-end bring-up of GPU compute hardware for AI training clusters, building and leading a team responsible for integration, bring-up, and repair. Drive aggressive timelines, develop processes, and manage vendors to ensure maximum hardware availability and deployment velocity. | — | 0 |
| Senior Employment Counsel Seeking a Senior Employment Counsel to manage SpaceXAI's compliance program for state and federal employment laws, develop policies, conduct audits, provide legal counsel on employment matters, and draft/update the Employee Handbook. Requires a JD and 10+ years of employment law experience. | — | 0 |
| Fiber Superintendent This role is for a Fiber Superintendent at SpaceXAI's Memphis data center, responsible for overseeing fiber optic cabling installation, modification, and splicing. The role involves managing employees and contractors, ensuring quality and safety, and completing projects on time and under budget to support the company's AI mission. | — | 0 |
| Energy & Infrastructure Counsel This role provides legal support for large-scale physical infrastructure transactions and development projects, focusing on contracts related to data centers, power, and hardware procurement. The role requires expertise in commercial contracting, negotiation, and managing complex agreements to support the company's mission of advancing AI-driven scientific discovery. | — | 0 |
| HR Business Partner (Employee Relations) This role is for an HR Business Partner at xAI, focusing on employee relations, HR policies, and supporting talent retention and development within a fast-paced engineering environment. It involves responding to employee inquiries, partnering with leaders on strategic initiatives, and managing HR processes. The role requires a Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of HR experience, with preferred experience in engineering/manufacturing environments and familiarity with HRIS systems. | — | 0 |
| HR Business Partner (Employee Relations) HR Business Partner role at xAI, focusing on employee relations, people strategies, and HR functions within a fast-paced engineering environment. Requires experience in HR, strong communication, and the ability to support managers and employees. | — | 0 |
| Electrical Reliability Engineer (Data Center Infrastructure) Electrical Reliability Engineer for data center infrastructure, focusing on power systems design, installation, and troubleshooting. Requires a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and 3+ years of experience. | — | 0 |
| Power Systems Engineer (Data Center Infrastructure) xAI is seeking an Electrical Engineer for their facility operations team to design, build, and activate technically advanced facilities and data centers. The role involves designing and building power systems, providing electrical engineering support for troubleshooting and operations, ensuring code compliance, and coordinating with utilities. This is a hands-on role focused on engineering excellence within a flat organizational structure. | — | 0 |
| Reliability Engineer (Data Center Infrastructure) This role is for a Reliability Engineer focused on the design, build, and maintenance of advanced data center infrastructure and critical assets, with a focus on fluid/HVAC components and predictive maintenance protocols. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in engineering and 1+ years of experience with various fluid components. | — | 0 |
| Facilities Infrastructure Engineer (Data Center Infrastructure) This role is for a Facilities Infrastructure Engineer responsible for designing, building, activating, and maintaining advanced facilities and data centers. The engineer will manage MEP engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and maintenance processes, provide technical support, oversee repairs, manage capital expenditure projects, and ensure system reliability. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline and at least 1 year of experience with MEP building systems. | — | 0 |
| Electrical Engineer (Data Center Infrastructure) Electrical Engineer role focused on designing, building, and activating data center infrastructure and power systems for xAI's facilities. Responsibilities include electrical power distribution, switchgear, lighting, UPS, generators, and ensuring compliance with codes and regulations. Requires a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and 3+ years of experience. | — | 0 |
| Mechanical Engineer (Data Center Infrastructure) Mechanical Engineer focused on designing, building, and maintaining advanced facility and data center infrastructure, specifically HVAC, piping, and fluid systems, for xAI. | — | 0 |
| Technical Program Manager (Energy Storage) xAI is seeking a Technical Program Manager to scale the development, deployment, operation, and continuous improvement of energy systems powering its rapidly expanding datacenter and aerospace infrastructure. The role focuses on energy storage and power systems, requiring program management skills to translate technical work into clear priorities, actionable plans, and measurable outcomes. The TPM will align stakeholders, establish operating mechanisms, support commissioning, and create visibility into program status, risks, and dependencies. Experience with battery storage systems and Tesla Megapacks is required. | — | 0 |
| Senior IAM Engineer Senior IAM Engineer to design, implement, and mature the enterprise IAM ecosystem, serving as a subject matter expert and driving secure, scalable, and user-friendly identity solutions. Responsibilities include architecting federation strategies, integrating IAM platforms, managing identity lifecycle, and developing automation. | — | 0 |
| Program Manager (Data Center Construction) Seeking an experienced Program Manager to lead data center and infrastructure construction programs supporting xAI's AI supercomputing goals. This role involves overseeing multiple Construction Project Managers, ensuring successful delivery of complex facilities, managing budgets, schedules, and risks, and ensuring safety and compliance. The role requires strong leadership, technical knowledge in construction disciplines, and experience with data centers or hyperscale facilities. | — | 0 |
| Lead, Controls Technician Lead Controls Technician role focused on managing day-to-day operations for controls technicians and serving as the primary onsite contact for Instrumentation & Controls (I&C) field work in data centers and infrastructure. Responsibilities include leading troubleshooting and support for critical systems like cooling, power distribution, and safety protocols, while collaborating with engineers and operations teams. | — | 0 |
| Fiber Foreman This role is for a Fiber Foreman responsible for leading crews in the installation, testing, and commissioning of fiber optic infrastructure for data center builds that power AI training clusters. It involves leadership, technical expertise in fiber optics, and a safety-first mindset in construction environments. | — | 0 |
| Material Handler xAI is seeking a Material Handler to support warehouse and logistics operations for their data center construction and operations. The role involves receiving, storing, staging, and moving materials and equipment, ensuring accurate and damage-free flow. Responsibilities include managing inventory, preparing materials for teams, and adhering to safety protocols. | — | 0 |
| Associate Data Center Operations Technician This role supports the health and reliability of server and network infrastructure in data centers, focusing on metrics like MTTD and MTTR. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, rack and stack of equipment, inventory management, cabling, hardware installation, ticket resolution, and documentation. Basic qualifications include a high school diploma and 0-2 years of experience with hardware, with preferred skills in Linux, on-call support, and structured cabling. | — | 0 |
| Supervisor, Fiber This role is for a Fiber Supervisor at xAI's Memphis data center, responsible for leading and overseeing all fiber optic infrastructure activities, including installation, maintenance, and optimization projects. The role requires managing teams of technicians, ensuring safety and quality, and maintaining high-speed connectivity for AI training and operations. It involves hands-on technical expertise, project oversight, troubleshooting, and collaboration with other teams. | — | 0 |
| Sr. IT Data Engineer xAI is seeking a Sr. IT Data Engineer to implement and support applications for internal customers, focusing on data strategy, ETL patterns, infrastructure, and reusable components. The role involves partnering with business and engineering teams, prioritizing requests, and delivering results in a fast-paced Agile environment. | — | 0 |