# Member of Technical Staff - Voice Model

**Company**: xAI
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150,000 - $450,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120599684

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## Description

Join the Grok Voice Model team to help build the world's best voice AI. You will design and execute large-scale speech data curation and processing pipelines, work on pre-training and post-training of speech-language models, and build a comprehensive evaluation framework.

As a member of the team, you will work closely with product teams to integrate voice models into applications and real-time environments. You will define spoken interaction specifications and handle the full lifecycle from prototype to global-scale deployment for stable, low-latency, delightful voice experiences.

We're seeking exceptionally smart, execution-oriented engineers to help us get there. You will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology and make a significant impact on the development of voice AI.

Responsibilities:

- Design and execute large-scale speech data curation and processing pipelines

- Work on pre-training and post-training of speech-language models

- Build a comprehensive evaluation framework

- Work closely with product teams to integrate voice models into applications and real-time environments

Basic Qualifications:

- Python expert with deep proficiency in writing clean, efficient code for AI/ML systems

- Hands-on experience processing large-scale datasets using tools like Spark and Ray for cleaning, augmentation, and feature extraction

- Proficiency in pre-training and post-training speech-language models using JAX/PyTorch, including supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and optimizations for accuracy, factuality, natural spoken style, detail, and multilingual fluency

- Ability to set up and run rigorous evaluation pipelines: objective metrics, human preference studies, content factuality checks, and iterative A/B testing to drive model improvements

- Experience building or working with large-scale distributed training and inference systems on Kubernetes

- Proactive, self-driven attitude , ready to grind in a fast-paced, high-caliber team to deliver outstanding voice AI experiences

Compensation and Benefits:

$150,000 - $450,000 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
- Python
- Spark
- Ray
- JAX/PyTorch
- Kubernetes

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