xAI jobs

Member of Technical Staff at xAI (Palo Alto, CA; telecommuting permitted) is a hands-on technical role focused on stabilizing large language model training, pipeline parallelism, and fine-tuning with emphasis on distributed systems and research. Requires Bachelor's in CS/Engineering/ML plus 2 years experience, with required expertise in BigData systems (Spark, Hadoop, BigQuery), Kubernetes clusters, applied ML at scale, Rust/C++/Python, and GPU/TPU hardware acceleration. Salary $324,000–$396,000 per year. Role emphasizes collaboration with distributed systems engineers and AI researchers on NLP, computer vision, and speech recognition.

Member of Technical Staff at X Corp./xAI (Palo Alto, CA on-site) is a backend software engineering role building production services, storage systems, and frameworks at scale. Requires Bachelor's in CS/Engineering plus 1 year experience, with required expertise in Java/Scala/Python/NodeJS/React, backend service development, large language models and recommendation algorithms, Docker/Kubernetes, and probabilistic modeling for product optimization. Salary $180,000–$220,000 per year. Role emphasizes writing production code, scaling distributed systems, analyzing data for insights, and collaborating with product and engineering teams on user problems.

Member of Technical Staff at xAI (Palo Alto, CA on-site) is a hands-on technical role focused on large language model training, pipeline parallelism, and fine-tuning research. Requires Bachelor's in CS/AI/ML plus 5 years post-bac AI/ML experience (or Master's plus 3 years), with required expertise in developing AI models, Python, C++/Java, ML frameworks, and 3 years each in LLM development, distributed systems, and performance optimization. Role emphasizes innovation in quantitative reasoning, neural architectures, and language understanding with mentorship of senior technical leaders.

xAI seeks an exceptionally talented Paralegal to support its in-house legal department across contracts, corporate governance, compliance, and intellectual property. The role involves drafting legal documents, managing compliance, supporting entity management, and streamlining legal operations; candidate must excel in ambiguity, organization, and cross-functional collaboration. Full-time onsite at Palo Alto, Austin, Washington DC, or New York; compensation USD $100–150K annually.

Commercial Counsel - Procurement at xAI, mission-driven AI startup. Role drafts and negotiates procurement contracts, master service agreements, and vendor deals; partners with engineering, finance, and operations on compliance and contracting processes. On-site Austin, TX with 25% travel; requires JD, active bar membership, tech background. Salary $176K–$228K plus equity and benefits.