xAI currently has 97 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 66%, are focused on data. Engineering is the dominant function, with 96 roles listed. The United States is the primary hiring country, accounting for 36 of the positions. Frequent tech tags include synthetic data, audio speech, and fine-tuning. Over the last 30 days, xAI has posted 10 new AI roles, a 75% decrease compared to the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 71 active AI roles, down 24% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Data · Engineering. Salary range $148k–$600k (avg $306k).
xAI currently has 92 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Member of Technical Staff - Model Training (2), Senior Analyst - Safety Operations (Child Safety) (2), AI Healthcare and Administration Tutor , AI Tutor - Arabic, AI Tutor - Audio Editing. Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
xAI's active AI hiring is concentrated in: data (64%), post-training (13%), agents (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 (35 roles), United Kingdom (4 roles), Japan (1 role).
Job postings at xAI most frequently reference: synthetic data, audio speech, fine tuning, rl post training, model serving.
In the past 30 days, xAI has posted 4 new AI-related roles. That is a -67% change versus the prior 30 days (12 → 4).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| AI Tutor - Software Engineering Specialist This role involves contributing to AI model training by curating code examples, providing solutions, and making corrections in specialized programming languages. The candidate will evaluate and refine AI-generated code for efficiency and scalability, and collaborate with teams to enhance AI-driven coding solutions to meet enterprise-level quality and performance benchmarks. | Post-train | 7 |
| Model Behavior Tutor - Social Cognition & EQ This role focuses on improving the social cognition and emotional intelligence of an AI model (Grok) by teaching it to interpret emotional subtext, social context, and user intent, and respond with appropriate calibration. Responsibilities include detecting and interpreting emotional states, teaching models specific response styles, correcting tone-deaf outputs, building datasets to immunize the model against social tactics, and ensuring cross-cultural sensitivity. The role requires direct clinical experience and expertise in psychological frameworks. | Post-trainData | 7 |
| Model Behavior Tutor - Style, Taste & Aesthetics This role focuses on refining the stylistic output of an AI model, specifically Grok, by ranking and rewriting responses for elegance, voice consistency, and aesthetic impact. The tutor will curate training data from high-quality writing and teach the model nuances of language use. | Post-train | 7 |
| Model Behavior Tutor - Wit & Conversation This role focuses on defining and safeguarding the personality and voice of an AI model (Grok), involving reviewing and scoring model responses, writing/revising sample responses, maintaining personality consistency, creating labeled training datasets for specific conversational elements, and developing evaluation tasks with engineering teams. The goal is to enhance user engagement and entertainment while ensuring factual accuracy and a distinctive, witty, culturally fluent voice. | Post-trainData | 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 |
| 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 |
| Statistics Tutor This role involves providing high-quality inputs, labels, and annotations to train AI models, specifically focusing on statistics. The individual will collaborate with the technical team to refine annotation tools and create challenging statistical problems to improve model performance. The role may involve working with text, voice, and video data. | Data | 7 |
| Physics Tutor The role involves providing high-quality input and labels for training AI models, collaborating with the technical team to support new AI tasks, and refining annotation tools. Responsibilities include selecting complex physics problems to guide AI models, gathering data in various formats, and executing tasks based on instructions. | Data | 7 |
| Medicine Tutor This role involves providing high-quality input and labels for AI model training in the medical domain, using specialized software and collaborating with the technical team to refine annotation tools and support new AI tasks. Responsibilities include labeling and annotating text, voice, and video data, and potentially recording audio/video sessions. | Data | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Sr. Software Engineer (Data Center Automation) This role focuses on automating processes, building and implementing robust observability solutions, and ensuring seamless operations for mission-critical AI infrastructure within a multi-data center environment. The engineer will combine strong coding abilities with data center experience to build scalable reliability services, optimize system performance, and minimize downtime, with a focus on reducing MTTR and ensuring resilience for AI workloads. | Serve | 5 |
| Member Of Technical Staff - Cloud Infrastructure Seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable infrastructure for US Government AI projects. This role involves managing training and inference clusters, applications, Kubernetes, and GPU hardware, with a strong emphasis on federal compliance, automation, and observability in a high-security environment. | — | 5 |
| Safety Trainer - Monetization This role focuses on designing and delivering training programs for monetization functions like Ads, payments, and fintech products. It involves onboarding new hires, developing instructional materials, and assessing training effectiveness using data. The role requires experience in technical training, adult learning principles, and leveraging AI tools to improve training management. A key aspect is building safety training programs in collaboration with stakeholders to enhance platform trust and safety. | — | 5 |
| Legal Operations Analyst This role focuses on enhancing legal operations systems and processes at xAI by handling legal requests, optimizing AI-driven automation, and collaborating with technical teams to refine AI agents and curate training data. The analyst will work on content removal, user data production, and improving AI performance in legal and compliance workflows. | — | 5 |
| AI Tutor - Audio Editing The role focuses on training and refining AI models (Grok) for voice interactions and sound processing by providing labels, annotations, and inputs on sound clips and voice recordings. It involves collaborating with technical staff to develop tasks and improve annotation tools, ensuring high-quality curated data for AI audio capabilities. | Data | 5 |
| Senior Analyst - Safety Operations (Child Safety) This role focuses on training and refining Grok (an AI model) to enforce terms of service, particularly concerning child safety. Responsibilities include monitoring content, investigating child safety threats, processing appeals, and providing data inputs for safety protocols. The role requires expertise in online child safety, LLM improvement for safety, and data analysis to identify abuse vectors and improve AI defenses. | Post-train | 5 |
| Senior Analyst - Safety Operations (Child Safety) This role focuses on training and refining LLMs (Grok) for child safety operations, involving monitoring content, investigating complex cases, and providing labeled data to improve AI defenses against illegal and harmful content. It requires expertise in online child safety, LLM improvement, and data analysis, with a focus on preventing CSAM/CSE and enhancing platform safety through adversarial testing. | DataPost-train | 5 |
| Program Manager - Quality & Training (Safety Operations) Program Manager for Quality & Training in Safety Operations at xAI, focusing on building scalable systems to improve moderator performance, critical thinking, and decision-making accuracy. The role involves developing and executing training strategies, integrating AI tools, implementing quality assurance processes, and managing a team of trainers to ensure operational excellence and product trust. | — | 5 |
| Tutor - Competition Math This role involves providing high-quality inputs, labels, and annotations for AI models, specifically focusing on advanced competition math topics. The individual will collaborate with the technical team to train models, refine annotation tools, and create complex problems. Tasks may involve text, voice, and video data. | Data | 5 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Internal Tools (Front-End) This role is for a Senior Frontend Engineer with full-stack capabilities to build and maintain internal tools for AI research. The platforms include a human data collection system (Starfleet) and a research platform for model training, evaluations, and experiment management (Toolbox). The role requires strong frontend (React/TypeScript) and backend (Node.js/Python) skills, experience with large-scale web applications, and product ownership. Familiarity with AI/ML workflows is a bonus. | — | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Member of Technical Staff Seeking a Member of Technical Staff to manage and enhance reliability for a multi-data center AI infrastructure. This role focuses on automating processes, building observability solutions, and ensuring seamless operations for mission-critical AI infrastructure. The ideal candidate will combine strong coding abilities with hands-on data center experience to build scalable reliability services, optimize system performance, and minimize downtime, including partnership with facility operations. The primary objective is to mitigate downtime and minimize impact to end-users through proactive automation, robust observability, and integrated software-physical reliability strategies, ensuring AI infrastructure remains resilient and scalable. | Serve | 5 |
| Exceptional Designer Designer for consumer products at xAI, focusing on social platforms and AI-powered interfaces. Responsibilities include designing end-to-end experiences, understanding user needs, rapid prototyping with AI-assisted tools, and collaborating with engineering and research to ship high-quality products. | — | 5 |
| SOC Manager xAI is seeking a SOC Manager to lead daily operations, manage a team, develop SOPs, supervise security monitoring using tools like Genetec and AI analytics, direct incident response, manage emergency notifications, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. The role requires strong incident management, crisis decision-making, and communication skills. | — | 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 |
| Writing Specialist This role involves evaluating, refining, and creating elite-level writing to improve Grok's capabilities. Responsibilities include labeling and annotating AI-generated text, curating data for writing outputs, collaborating with engineers on AI writing tasks, and improving annotation tools. The role requires strong English proficiency and expertise in a specific writing specialty (Creative Fiction, Game Writing, Technical Writing, Nonfiction, Journalistic, or Copywriting), with a focus on attention to detail, grammar, and the ability to critique AI text. | Data | 5 |
| Occupational Math Tutor The role involves using proprietary tools to label and evaluate data, focusing on math as used in real-world occupational settings. The specialist will provide solutions, evaluate model responses for correctness and adherence to domain rules, and work with engineers to refine tasks and workflows. This is for enhancing AI technologies through high-quality inputs and labels. | Data | 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 |
| 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 |
| Earth Science Tutor This role involves providing high-quality input and labels using specialized software to support the training of AI tasks, with a focus on Earth Science disciplines. Responsibilities include refining annotation tools, gathering data in various formats (text, voice, video), and guiding AI models to improve research outcomes in specialized scientific areas. | Data | 5 |
| Network Engineer - AI/HPC xAI is seeking a Network Engineer with deep experience in RoCEv2 to develop and optimize hyper-scale AI/HPC networks. The role involves designing, operating, and optimizing network performance for AI training and inference workloads, with a focus on NCCL, metric dashboards, and Python automation. The engineer will also contribute to designing future network iterations and participate in on-call rotations and travel. | — | 5 |
| Legal & Compliance Tutor The role involves providing high-quality data annotations and inputs for AI models in legal and compliance contexts, leveraging expertise in regulatory compliance, contract analysis, legal research, and dispute resolution. Responsibilities include using proprietary software for annotation, curating data, collaborating with technical teams, and assisting in the design of annotation tools. | Data | 5 |
| AI Healthcare and Administration Tutor The role involves providing high-quality data annotations and inputs for AI models in healthcare and administration contexts, focusing on patient care coordination, medical billing, and administrative workflows. The specialist will collaborate with technical teams to refine annotation tools and curate data for AI model training. | Data | 5 |
| Applied Math Tutor Role involves providing high-quality inputs, labels, and annotations to train AI models, specifically focusing on applied math problems. Responsibilities include using specialized software, collaborating with the technical team, refining annotation tools, and selecting/creating challenging math problems to improve model performance. The role may involve data in text, voice, and video formats. | Data | 5 |
| Pure Math Tutor The role involves enhancing AI technologies by providing high-quality inputs, labels, and annotations using specialized software. The specialist will collaborate with the technical team to train models on human interactions and problem-solving, refine annotation tools, and create complex problems from advanced pure math topics to improve AI performance. Tasks may include gathering and annotating data in text, voice, and video formats. | Data | 5 |
| Electrical Engineering Tutor The role involves providing high-quality input and labels using specialized software to support the training of new AI tasks, collaborating with the technical team to refine annotation tools and select complex problems for model improvement. Requires a Master's or PhD in electrical or computer engineering. | Data | 5 |
| Mechanical Engineering Tutor This role involves providing high-quality input and labels for AI training using specialized software, collaborating with the technical team to support new AI tasks, and refining annotation tools. The primary focus is on data curation and supporting the training of AI models in a specific domain (Mechanical Engineering). | Data | 5 |
| Chemical Engineering Tutor This role involves providing high-quality input and labels for AI training using specialized software, collaborating with the technical team to support new AI tasks, refine annotation tools, and improve model performance. The specialist will leverage their Chemical Engineering expertise to contribute to the development and implementation of cutting-edge AI initiatives. | Data | 5 |
| Systems Engineering Tutor This role involves providing high-quality input and labels using specialized software to support the training of new AI tasks, collaborating with the technical team to refine annotation tools and select complex problems. The focus is on data curation and supporting the training process for AI models. | Data | 5 |
| Data Science Tutor Role focused on providing high-quality input and labels for training AI tasks, collaborating with the technical team to refine annotation tools and improve model performance. Requires strong analytical and communication skills, with a background in data science or similar competitive fields. | Data | 5 |