# Software Engineer, Ads Product

**Company**: xAI
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150,000 - $350,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120599684

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## 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.

## Skills

### Required
- 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

### Nice to have
- 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

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