xAI
AI Frontier · AI lab
- HQ
- Palo Alto, US
- Founded
- 2023
- Size
- 1,000+
- Website
- x.ai
Products
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Documentation Control Specialist The Documentation Control Specialist at xAI will manage and maintain technical documentation for data center construction, engineering, and operations projects. This role involves implementing and overseeing document control processes to ensure accuracy, traceability, version control, and compliance. The specialist will collaborate with various teams to streamline documentation workflows and ensure organized execution of infrastructure buildout. | — | 0 |
| HR Business Partner HR Business Partner role focused on scaling the organization and supporting employees within a fast-paced tech environment. Responsibilities include talent strategy, employee relations, compensation, organizational design, and providing feedback to managers. Requires 6+ years of HR generalist experience and strong analytical and interpersonal skills. | — | 0 |
| Senior Employment Counsel Senior Employment Counsel responsible for xAI's compliance program for state and federal employment laws, developing policies, conducting audits, providing legal counsel on employment matters, and managing other projects. Requires JD and 10+ years of employment law experience. | — | 0 |
| Security Engineer - Detection & Response (Japan) Security Engineer focused on detection and response, including threat management, incident response, threat intelligence, threat hunting, and intrusion detection. Requires Python scripting for automation, knowledge of operating systems and cloud security, and experience with security technologies and monitoring. Experience with malware analysis, forensics, or penetration testing is also relevant. | — | 0 |
| Electrician xAI is seeking skilled Electricians to install, maintain, and commission electrical systems for their data centers. This hands-on role involves working with high-voltage and medium-voltage power distribution, backup power, grounding, and lighting in a fast-paced environment where uptime and safety are critical. The ideal candidate is a Journeyman Electrician with 2+ years of experience in industrial or mission-critical settings. | — | 0 |
| Civil Engineer xAI is seeking a Civil Engineer to lead the design and delivery of civil and site development for their next-generation mission-critical data center campuses and co-located power generation facilities. The role involves architecting resilient civil infrastructure systems to support massive AI compute loads and ultra-dense power infrastructure, requiring expertise in land development, hydrology, hydraulics, and environmental systems. | — | 0 |
| Gas Pipeline Engineer Seeking a Gas Pipeline Engineer to design, develop, and maintain high-reliability natural gas pipeline systems and fuel delivery infrastructure for xAI's on-site power generation supporting AI supercomputing facilities. The role involves ensuring safe, efficient, and compliant fuel gas delivery at scale, meeting stringent uptime, safety, and environmental requirements. | — | 0 |
| Fire Protection Engineer Seeking a Fire Protection Engineer to design, implement, and optimize fire protection and life safety systems for xAI's high-density AI supercomputing facilities and on-site power generation infrastructure. This role involves protecting mission-critical environments with extreme power densities, liquid cooling, and natural gas generation, ensuring reliability and code compliance. | — | 0 |
| Permitting Specialist (Data Centers) Seeking a Permitting Specialist with deep experience in data center permitting in Texas to lead regulatory approvals for xAI’s large-scale AI supercomputing facilities and associated power infrastructure. This role focuses on securing and managing zoning, environmental, building, air quality, water, and energy-related permits for high-density data centers and on-site generation projects. | — | 0 |
| Electrical Engineer (Physical Infrastructure) Electrical Engineer role focused on designing, building, and optimizing power infrastructure for AI supercomputing facilities, including battery storage, power transmission, and power generation. Requires expertise in power systems studies, compliance with standards, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. | — | 0 |
| Mechanical Engineer (Physical Infrastructure) Mechanical Engineer role focused on designing, building, and optimizing the mechanical infrastructure for AI supercomputing facilities, including thermal management, systems components, and HVAC design. Requires engineering analysis, system integration, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. | — | 0 |
| Recruiting Coordinator Recruiting Coordinator role at xAI, focusing on scheduling interviews, tracking candidate data, and ensuring a positive candidate experience. Requires strong organizational and communication skills, with experience in fast-paced environments preferred. The role involves managing recruitment processes and data integrity within the applicant tracking system. | — | 0 |
| Technical Recruiter Seeking Technical Recruiters to identify, engage, and close exceptional technical talent for xAI. This role involves partnering with technical leaders, owning full-cycle recruiting, and leveraging data to improve processes. Requires 5+ years of experience in technical recruiting within fast-paced environments. | — | 0 |
| Electrical Commissioning Technician xAI is seeking an Electrical Commissioning Technician to support the buildout and energization of their high-performance data centers powering next-generation AI supercomputing infrastructure. The role involves commissioning, testing, and troubleshooting electrical systems, working closely with construction, engineering, and operations teams to ensure safe, reliable, and high-quality electrical systems. | — | 0 |
| Mechanical Commissioning Lead This role is for a Mechanical Commissioning Lead responsible for the buildout, startup, and handover of mechanical systems for xAI's high-performance data centers that support AI supercomputing infrastructure. The lead will direct commissioning, testing, troubleshooting, and turnover of critical cooling, air handling, and fluid distribution systems, leading a team and working with various stakeholders. The role requires extensive hands-on mechanical commissioning experience in mission-critical environments, strong leadership, and a deep understanding of data center cooling systems. | — | 0 |
| Mechanical Commissioning Technician This role supports the buildout and startup of xAI's high-performance data centers by performing commissioning, testing, and troubleshooting of mechanical systems for AI supercomputing infrastructure. The technician will work with various teams to ensure the reliability and quality of mechanical systems. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Electrical Commissioning Technician xAI is seeking a Sr. Electrical Commissioning Technician to support the buildout and energization of their high-performance data centers powering AI supercomputing infrastructure. The role involves commissioning, testing, and troubleshooting electrical systems, working closely with construction, engineering, and operations teams to ensure safe, reliable, and high-quality electrical systems. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Operations This role manages operations and power generation for hyperscale AI compute facilities, focusing on infrastructure reliability and uptime for AI training. It involves leading teams responsible for power, cooling, networking, and overall facility performance. | — | 0 |
| Construction Superintendent (Night Shift) – Structural This role oversees structural contractors and crews building the advanced structural infrastructure for xAI's Memphis Data Center. It involves managing construction, ensuring adherence to scope and quality standards, developing schedules, enforcing safety programs, and resolving on-site challenges. The role requires hands-on leadership in a mission-critical environment, focusing on foundations, concrete, steel framing, and support structures. | — | 0 |
| Construction Superintendent (Night Shift) – Mechanical Oversee mechanical contractors and crews building the advanced mechanical infrastructure for xAI’s Memphis Data Center, including HVAC and cooling systems, chilled water plants, and fire protection systems. | — | 0 |
| Construction Superintendent (Night Shift) – Electrical This role is for a Construction Superintendent overseeing electrical contractors for xAI's Data Center construction. It involves managing crews, ensuring adherence to scope, monitoring progress, developing schedules, enforcing safety, leading teams, resolving challenges, conducting inspections, and reporting to leadership. Requires 3+ years of experience in managing electrical construction teams and hands-on experience in electrical installations, ideally on data centers or similar projects. | — | 0 |
| Construction Superintendent - Structural Oversee structural contractors and crews building advanced structural infrastructure for xAI’s Memphis Data Center, including foundations, concrete slabs, pile systems, structural steel framing, equipment pads, seismic bracing, and heavy support structures. This role is hands-on and contributes to high-impact AI infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Construction Superintendent – Mechanical Oversee mechanical contractors and crews building the advanced mechanical infrastructure for xAI’s Data Centers, including HVAC and cooling systems, chilled water plants, and process piping. This role requires hands-on leadership in complex industrial mechanical construction to deliver high-impact AI infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Construction Superintendent - Electrical Oversee electrical contractors and crews building electrical infrastructure for xAI’s Memphis Data Center, ensuring high-integrity power systems critical to data center uptime and operational readiness. This role focuses on hands-on leadership in complex industrial electrical construction for mission-critical facilities. | — | 0 |
| Material Flow Engineer - Data Center Operations xAI is seeking an experienced Material Flow Engineer to optimize the receiving, storage, and movement of materials for data center build operations. This role involves using lean principles, data analytics, and project management to ensure efficient and cost-effective material handling. | — | 0 |
| Construction Manager (Electrical) Seeking an experienced Electrical Construction Manager to lead mission-critical data center build efforts in Memphis, TN. The role involves overseeing end-to-end project execution, managing contractors and vendors, ensuring quality and safety, and driving project timelines. Requires expertise in construction management, commissioning, and site operations, with strong communication and problem-solving skills. | — | 0 |
| Construction Manager (Structural) This role is for a Structural Construction Manager to lead mission-critical build efforts for a data center in Memphis, Tennessee. The manager will be responsible for overseeing end-to-end project execution, managing relationships with contractors and stakeholders, coordinating vendors, mitigating risks, and ensuring project timelines and quality standards are met. The role requires deep expertise in construction management and site operations, with a focus on safety and problem-solving. | — | 0 |
| Supervisor, Logistics - Data Center Operations Supervise a team of hourly employees in a data center logistics operation, focusing on inventory management, customer service, safety, and continuous improvement. Requires leadership experience and a background in materials management or supply chain. | — | 0 |
| Inventory Specialist The Inventory Specialist role at xAI focuses on managing warehouse operations, including inventory organization, RMA processes, data entry, and asset tracking to support data center and infrastructure needs. This role requires experience in inventory management and data entry systems, with a preference for experience in a data center environment. | — | 0 |
| Construction Manager (Mechanical) Seeking an experienced Mechanical Construction Manager to lead mission-critical build efforts for a data center in Memphis, Tennessee. The role involves owning site relationships, collaborating with technical and construction teams, and overseeing end-to-end project execution from pre-construction through commissioning. Responsibilities include risk mitigation, schedule alignment, quality assurance, and leading safety initiatives. Requires 5+ years of experience in large-scale data center or mission-critical construction projects. | — | 0 |
| Controls Engineer xAI is seeking a Controls Engineer to support the operation, design, and optimization of their advanced data center infrastructure, which powers their AI research. The role involves implementing and modifying control systems (BMS, EPMS, SCADA), overseeing critical systems, preparing HMI specifications, implementing automated controls for safety, developing reporting dashboards for operational trends, and coordinating with utility providers. This is an engineering role focused on the physical infrastructure supporting AI research, not directly on AI model development or deployment. | — | 0 |
| Data Analyst - Physical Infrastructure This role focuses on analyzing data related to physical infrastructure for datacenters and power generation facilities, with the goal of optimizing these facilities for AI supercomputing. Responsibilities include data collection, cleaning, analysis, forecasting, dashboard development, and identifying optimization opportunities. Basic qualifications include experience in data analysis, SQL, Python/R, and BI tools. Preferred skills include background in energy, datacenters, or industrial facilities, and knowledge of power systems and cooling metrics. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Lead - Consumer Subscriptions Engineering Lead for Consumer Subscriptions (X Premium & SuperGrok) responsible for the entire billing and monetization infrastructure, including subscriptions, promotions, global payments, and personalized user experiences for hundreds of millions of users. The role involves building and leading a dedicated engineering team, designing sophisticated promotional offer infrastructure, developing communication systems, implementing market-specific billing, and architecting product bundles. It also includes building intelligent models and systems for personalized user engagement and hands-on development for X Premium and SuperGrok products. | — | 0 |
| Member of Technical Staff - X Money Software Engineer for xAI's X Money team, focused on building a global payment network. Responsibilities include backend microservices development, supporting full-stack efforts, and collaborating on payments, fraud detection, and compliance. The role emphasizes scalability, security, and reliability in a fast-paced, startup-like environment at the intersection of AI and finance. | — | 0 |
| Member of Technical Staff - X Money Seeking a Software Engineer for the X Money team to build a global payment network. Responsibilities include backend development, microservices design, and supporting full-stack efforts for payments, fraud detection, and compliance. The role involves greenfield projects at the intersection of AI and finance, focusing on scalability, security, and reliability for a high-scale financial products platform. | — | 0 |
| Infrastructure Security Engineer Seeking a Cloud/Infrastructure Security Engineer to design, implement, and maintain secure cloud infrastructure and ensure the integrity of cloud-native applications. Responsibilities include developing IaC, conducting security assessments, managing security tools, integrating security into CI/CD, monitoring incidents, and developing policies. Requires a Bachelor's degree, 3-5 years of cloud security experience, proficiency in cloud platforms and IaC tools, and scripting skills. | — | 0 |
| Data Center Operations Technician (Night Shift) This role is for a Data Center Operations Technician responsible for the health of server and network infrastructure, focusing on mean time to detect and repair. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, monitoring, installation, maintenance, and documentation of data center equipment and network infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Member of Technical Staff – Web Engineering Fullstack/Web Engineers with a passion for frontend development and design to architect and optimize user-facing features for real-time conversations for millions worldwide. Collaborate with top-tier talent to push the boundaries of web performance and innovation. Thrive in a fast-paced environment, tackling high-impact challenges that shape the future of social media. | — | 0 |
| Recruiting Coordinator Recruiting Coordinator at xAI, a company focused on building AI systems. This role supports the JAPAC Talent Acquisition team by scheduling interviews, maintaining the ATS, communicating with candidates, and partnering with recruiters and hiring managers. Requires 1-3 years of experience in coordination, recruiting, or HR support, strong organizational and time management skills, and comfort with multiple time zones. Familiarity with ATS and Google Suite is a plus. Fluency in Japanese and English is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Senior IT Systems Engineer This role is for a Senior IT Systems Engineer focused on automating IT systems, managing identity and access, and integrating SaaS platforms. It involves designing, implementing, and optimizing core SaaS tools like Okta and Google Workspace, managing IAM programs, and providing technical guidance for business expansion. The role requires extensive experience with SaaS administration, automation platforms, IAM principles, API integrations, and scripting, with a strong emphasis on troubleshooting and delivering business impact. | — | 0 |
| Critical Facilities Engineer This role is for a Facilities Operations Technician at SpaceXAI, responsible for operating and maintaining critical facility systems (MEP) for supercomputing data centers. The role involves hands-on maintenance, troubleshooting, and ensuring the reliability of infrastructure that supports AI development. | — | 0 |
| Mobile Android Engineer Seeking an exceptional Android 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 a keen product sense to deliver brilliance that resonates with users. You will work on the most critical product or technical challenge at any given time. | — | 0 |
| Senior Data Center Operations Technician This role is for a Senior Data Center Operations Technician at xAI, responsible for the health of server and network infrastructure. Key metrics include mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to repair (MTTR). Responsibilities include troubleshooting, monitoring, rack and stack of equipment, inventory management, cabling, power supply work, hardware installation, ticket management, documentation, and hardware decommissioning. Requires 5+ years of experience with server, storage, compute, and network hardware, troubleshooting, and inventory management. Basic qualifications include a high school diploma and physical requirements for data center work. Preferred skills include strong Linux skills, on-call experience, and project leadership. | — | 0 |
| Senior Facilities Operations Technician This role is for a Senior Facilities Operations Technician responsible for operating and maintaining critical mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems in supercomputing data centers that power AI infrastructure. The role involves hands-on maintenance, troubleshooting, and optimization of HVAC, power, and environmental controls, ensuring peak performance and reliability. It also includes ensuring site safety and environmental compliance, and potentially mentoring junior technicians. | — | 0 |
| Network Engineer - ML Infrastructure (High-Speed Interconnects) This role focuses on designing, building, and optimizing the network fabric for large-scale AI training and inference clusters, specifically dealing with high-speed interconnect technologies like copper and optical solutions. The engineer will work on physical layer and system-level integration, vendor management, and ensuring the performance, power efficiency, and cost of these critical AI infrastructure components. | — | 0 |
| Structural Engineer - Data Centers Seeking an experienced Structural Engineer to design and deliver resilient, high-performance structural systems for hyperscale AI training facilities. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to support extreme compute densities, seismic resilience, and vibration control in mission-critical facilities. | — | 0 |
| Site Operations Lead This role is for a Site Operations Lead at xAI's Memphis data center. The lead will oversee the health and performance of server and network infrastructure, manage a team of technicians, and focus on improving mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to repair (MTTR). Responsibilities include installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, process optimization, and cross-functional collaboration. | — | 0 |
| Member of Technical Staff - X Money Software Engineer for xAI's X Money team, focused on building a global payment network. Role involves backend development of microservices, system architecture, and supporting full-stack efforts, payments, fraud detection, and compliance. Opportunity to work on greenfield projects at the intersection of AI and finance. | — | 0 |
| Operations & Maintenance Technician The Operations & Maintenance Technician is responsible for the safe, reliable, and efficient operation and maintenance of a 1.2 GW power generation facility. This role requires hands-on expertise in control room operations, mechanical maintenance, electrical, instrumentation & controls (I&C), and water treatment for LM6000 gas turbines. | — | 0 |
| Client Partner - Ecommerce & Digital Native xAI is looking for a Client Partner to drive their advertising sales strategy for Ecommerce & Digital Native clients in Singapore. This role involves developing business partnerships, forging client relationships, formulating industry strategies, identifying business transformation opportunities, and collaborating with clients and agencies to design and implement marketing campaigns. The ideal candidate will have a sales-driven mentality, strong leadership skills, and a deep understanding of the media advertising landscape. | — | 0 |