# Member of Technical Staff - Recommendation Systems

**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

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## Description

## About the Role

We're seeking exceptional Applied engineers to join a high-priority project used by approximately 600 million monthly users. You'll work at the intersection of advanced AI development and real-world impact, enhancing the ability to connect users with relevant content, accounts, and experiences.

## Responsibilities

- Design and architect recommendation algorithms across various product surfaces

- Leverage xAI's infrastructure and AI stacks to enhance the user experience

- Write data pipelines and training jobs that continuously learn from product data

- Iterate and improve algorithms by gathering user feedback in real-time through experimentation

- Ensure scalability and efficiency of machine learning systems

## Basic Qualifications

- Knowledge of data infrastructure like Kafka, Clickhouse, and Spark

- Experience implementing recommender systems and/or deep learning applications at industrial scale

- Skilled in one or more DL software frameworks such as JAX or PyTorch

- Exceptional candidates may be experienced in writing CUDA kernels

## 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
- Kafka
- Clickhouse
- Spark
- JAX
- PyTorch
- CUDA
- recommender systems
- deep learning

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