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 - 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 |
| 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 - Ads This role involves integrating Grok models into a large-scale Ads Platform, covering aspects like candidate selection, ranking, auction, optimization, and creative generation. The engineer will own and operate these revenue-driving systems. | Ship | 7 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Recommendation Systems Seeking exceptional Applied engineers to work on a high-priority project with ~600 million monthly users, focusing on recommendation systems, ranking algorithms, and search technologies. Responsibilities include designing and architecting recommendation algorithms, leveraging AI stacks, writing data pipelines and training jobs, iterating through user feedback and experimentation, and ensuring scalability and efficiency of ML systems. Requires knowledge of data infrastructure (Kafka, Clickhouse, Spark), experience implementing recommender systems/deep learning at industrial scale, and proficiency in DL frameworks (JAX, PyTorch). CUDA kernel experience is a plus. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Ads Product Software Engineer role focused on building and shipping product features for the X Ads Platform, leveraging AI infrastructure and capabilities to improve ad delivery, targeting, optimization, and advertiser experience. The role involves working on large-scale distributed systems and directly impacting business revenue. | Ship | 5 |
| 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 |