xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
Member of Technical Staff (X.AI LLC; Palo Alto, CA): Introduce innovative techniques and analyses to theAI field to facilitate breakthroughs in quantitative reasoning and language understanding. Stabilize large language model training, pipeline parallelism training of large language models, and fine-tuning large language models with truthful data. Ensure organization’s work is aligned with broader company objectives. Spend time working on hands-on technical problems including design and implementation. Perform cutting-edge research on advanced techniques from AI and deep learning, including neural network architectures, language modeling, and speech recognition. Work closely with leaders across the company to deliver impactful projects which may involve work in areas such as machine learning, applied data science, recommendation systems, and information retrieval systems. Telecommuting permitted. Reference: 00100860
The position requires a Bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Machine Learning or in a related field and 2 years of experience in the job offered or in a computer-related occupation.
Special Requirements: Position requires experience, knowledge or coursework in each of the following skills:
Salary: $324,000 - $396,000 per year
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Based on 8,019 disclosed Software salaries on RoleSuite, the role pays a median of $157K/year, with most offers between $123K and $198K (10th–90th percentile: $102K–$235K).
xAI ranks among the higher-paying employers for this role, at a $310K median across 5 disclosed postings.
This posting lists $324K–$396K, above the $157K market median.
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