How many open roles does xAI have?

xAI currently has 292 enriched job postings indexed.

Is xAI hiring more or less than usual?

Hiring is decelerating. 5 postings in the last 14 days versus 18 in the prior 14 days (-72%).

Where is xAI concentrating its hiring?

Engineering leads with 224 of 292 postings.

How does xAI pay compared to its industry?

Median midpoint of $260,000 USD, sitting at the 19th percentile of the industry. Salary disclosure rate: 20%.

What capability is xAI most disproportionately focused on?

Data Center Construction: 32.75× the rate of industry peers (4.1% of postings vs 0.1% across peers).

xAI

artificial intelligence San Francisco Bay Area website ↗

xAI has 292 indexed roles weighted toward engineering across United States.

292

Indexed roles

-72%

14d momentum

5 recent vs 18 prior

Industry rank

26.8% of 1.1K jobs · 4 peers

0.19

AI exposure (occupation)

Skill-weighted: 0.36

Hiring Trajectory

Posting volume over the last 17 weeks

Bucketed weekly from enriched_at timestamps. Trend classification compares the last 4 weeks against the 4 prior weeks. Median time from first sighting to closure: 45 days (industry: 34).

decelerating Long-open postings (>90d): 166

Functional Mix

Where the hiring is concentrated

Categories collapsed into 12 canonical buckets so cross-company comparisons stay coherent. Same map used on /live and /job-statistics.

Engineering

224

Operations

Legal

Finance

Sales

Design

Consulting

Geographic Distribution

Where postings live, and where they're moving

Free-text jobs.location resolved into 12 region buckets. Emerging hubs flagged when last-30-days postings >50% above prior 30 days.

United States

237 (81.2%)

Remote

34 (11.6%)

United Kingdom

9 (3.1%)

APAC

7 (2.4%)

4 (1.4%)

↘ United States: 23 postings in last 30d, down from 76 prior (-70%)

Seniority Distribution

Who exactly is being hired

Levels in postings, plus a separate read on executive-tier roles which are the leading indicator of strategic shifts.

Executive

Staff / Principal

Senior

139

Mid-level

Entry-level

Disproportionate Skills

What this company is over-indexed on vs industry peers

Location Quotient = (this company's % of postings with skill X) ÷ (peer industry's % of the same skill). Values above 1.0 mean over-indexed. Peer baseline excludes this company itself, so a dominant employer doesn't collapse to ~1.0. Skills with fewer than 3 occurrences here are excluded.

Skill	Postings	This co.	Peer avg	LQ	Required
Data Center Construction	12	4.1%	0.1%	32.75×	0%
Inventory Management	20	6.8%	0.3%	27.29×	100%
Construction Management	20	6.8%	0.3%	27.29×	95%
Troubleshooting	21	7.2%	0.4%	19.11×	95%
Budgeting	7	2.4%	0.1%	19.11×	43%
Switchgear	7	2.4%	0.1%	19.11×	100%
Independent Judgment	6	2.1%	0.1%	16.38×	50%
Annotation Workflows	6	2.1%	0.1%	16.38×	33%
Interpersonal Skills	6	2.1%	0.1%	16.38×	100%
Customer Service	6	2.1%	0.1%	16.38×	67%
Revit	6	2.1%	0.1%	16.38×	67%
Mission-critical Facilities	5	1.7%	0.1%	13.65×	60%
Hyperscale	5	1.7%	0.1%	13.65×	0%
Quality	4	1.4%	0.1%	10.92×	50%
User-centric Design	4	1.4%	0.1%	10.92×	0%

Salary Positioning

Pay vs the industry baseline (USD midpoint)

Midpoint of salary_min/salary_max converted to USD via simple 2024-snapshot FX. Values outside $10k–$1M filtered as parser noise.

xAI Industry baseline xAI sits at the 19th percentile of industry pay

Market Position

Direct hiring competitors

Peers are companies in the same industry, ranked by how much their job categories overlap with this one (Jaccard score on the top 5 normalised categories). Each peer's hiring momentum is shown from the same 14-day windows.

Company	Postings	Similarity	Momentum
Anthropic	768	43%	decelerating
Google DeepMind	14	17%	stable

Strategic Themes

What this hiring is revealing

Coming soon.

Weekly LLM-synthesised brief — emerging capabilities, decaying capabilities, geographic shifts, seniority signals — drawn from the company's own posting tag distribution. Will populate once Phase 4 of the company-intelligence pipeline (OpenRouter long-context model) ships.

Latest

Most recent indexed postings

Software Engineer - Platform Core (C++, C)

Palo Alto, California senior Engineering

Lead, Hardware Deployment Engineer

Memphis, Tennessee senior onsite Engineering

ML Infrastructure Engineer

Palo Alto, California senior Engineering

ML Infrastructure Engineer

Palo Alto, California senior Engineering

Software Engineer - Platform Infrastructure (Rust, C++)

Palo Alto, CA senior Engineering

Software Engineer - Platform Infrastructure (Rust, C++)

Palo Alto, CA Engineering

Software Engineer - X Data

Palo Alto, CA senior Engineering

Software Engineer - X Data

Palo Alto, CA senior Engineering

Methodology & Sources

How this is computed

Last enriched: 2026-03-20.

Company-data sources: wikidata, news

Hiring aggregates run live against D1; cached at the edge for up to 24 hours. AI-exposure scores derive from O*NET 30.2 occupation taxonomy crossed with the Anthropic Economic Index 2026-03-24 release.

Caveats: salary parser uses 2024 FX snapshot rates; long-tail location strings may bucket as "Unknown"; Location Quotient excludes companies with fewer than 5 indexed roles to keep ratios stable. Salary disclosure under 20% triggers a warning on the salary chart.

Machine-readable equivalents: /companies/xai.json · /companies/xai.md · api.yubhub.co/stats/company/xai