# Member of Technical Staff - X Search

**Company**: xAI
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $180,000 - $440,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120599684

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/5125621007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_3bcb6b0b-939

## Description

## About the Role

The X Search team builds and operates the core search engine powering discovery on X. They own the full end-to-end search stack, from real-time retrieval and indexing to ranking and the end-user search experience. The goal is to create the most relevant, fast, and intelligent search experience on the internet by combining state-of-the-art information retrieval systems with Grok's reasoning capabilities.

## Responsibilities

- Build search and retrieval algorithms that scale to millions of users

- Build and operate large-scale search engines and search infrastructure

- Train state-of-the-art ML ranking models

- Integrate Grok into search systems and products

## Basic Qualifications

- Tech Stack: Python, Go, Rust

- Experience with vector databases, search indices, or similar data stores for search applications

- Experience with large-scale search systems

- Deep experience building or working with production ML systems

- Ability to take full ownership of problems and learn to solve them

- Ability to move quickly in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and tight deadlines

## Compensation and Benefits

The salary range is $180,000 - $440,000 USD. The total rewards package at xAI 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
- Python
- Go
- Rust
- vector databases
- search indices
- large-scale search systems
- production ML systems

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