Description
About the Role
Join a small, fast-moving team where early-career engineers can take on real ownership, learn from strong engineers, and ship products that matter.
We're looking for high-slope software engineers who want to help rebuild and transform the X Ads Platform using xAI's infrastructure and AI stack.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship product features across the X Ads Platform.
- Work on systems related to ad delivery, targeting, optimisation, measurement, and advertiser experience.
- Use xAI's infrastructure and AI capabilities to improve the performance and quality of advertising products.
- Contribute to distributed systems that need to be reliable, fast, and scalable.
- Collaborate closely with engineers, product leads, and cross-functional partners to turn ideas into working products.
Basic Qualifications
- Strong software engineering fundamentals.
- Ability to write clean, maintainable code and learn new codebases quickly.
- Strong problem-solving skills and comfort working through ambiguity.
- Experience building software through internships, projects, research, open-source work, startups, or full-time roles.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Experience with ads, recommendations, search, ranking, marketplaces, payments, analytics, or growth systems.
- Experience working with large-scale backend systems or data processing pipelines.
- Experience with React, Golang, Python, Rust, gRPC, Java, or Scala.
- Experience with machine learning, LLMs, experimentation, ranking, or optimisation systems.
Compensation and Benefits
$150,000 - $350,000 USD
Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.
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https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/5152408007