# Member of Technical Staff - International Government

**Company**: xAI
**Location**: London, UK
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120599684

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/5074110007
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_4fdad2d9-8f4

## Description

Job Description:

We're looking for a highly skilled Member of Technical Staff to join our team at xAI. As a key member of our team, you will design, build, and optimize integrations between xAI's frontier models and international government systems, platforms, and data environments.

Responsibilities:

- Design, build, and optimize integrations between xAI's frontier models and international government systems, platforms, and data environments

- Develop secure, scalable solutions for use cases such as policy analysis, edtech, scientific research support, public health modeling, regulatory workflows, and citizen-facing services across diverse global contexts

- Collaborate on custom SDKs, APIs, developer tools, and documentation tailored for international government and enterprise developers

- Partner with international agency stakeholders to understand requirements, prototype solutions, and iterate rapidly based on real-world feedback, including during on-site assignments

- Contribute to safe deployment practices, including red-teaming, bias evaluation, output filtering, and explainability features for high-stakes non-classified applications in varied regulatory landscapes

- Fine-tune and adapt xAI models for specific international government use cases, incorporating custom guardrails and evaluation frameworks to ensure alignment with mission objectives and ethical guidelines

- Ship production-grade code and features with a bias toward speed, simplicity, and measurable impact

Basic Qualifications:

- 4+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building scalable systems, APIs, or AI/ML applications (strong Python proficiency required; other languages a plus)

- Experience fine-tuning AI models for government or mission-critical use cases, including building evaluations and ensuring safety and performance

- Experience deploying complex AI and data systems in sovereign environments, ensuring compliance with international regulations for technology and AI in government or public sector settings

- Willingness and ability to undertake travel and international assignments to regions such as the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East and potentially more.

- Strong product sensibility: ability to translate ambiguous stakeholder needs into concrete technical solutions

- Demonstrated ability to write clean, maintainable, high-performance code under tight timelines

- Exceptional problem-solving skills and intellectual curiosity,you thrive on hard, ambiguous challenges

- Excellent communication skills; you can explain complex technical concepts to non-technical partners clearly and concisely

Preferred Skills and Experience:

- Prior work on AI safety, governance, red-teaming, or responsible AI deployment

- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), or API orchestration

- Background in policy-adjacent technical roles, civic tech, or public-interest technology with an international focus

- Contributions to open-source AI projects or developer tools

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Software Engineering
- AI/ML
- Cloud Platforms
- Containerization
- API Orchestration
- Policy Analysis
- Edtech
- Scientific Research Support
- Public Health Modeling
- Regulatory Workflows
- Citizen-Facing Services

### Nice to have
- AI Safety
- Governance
- Red-Teeaming
- Responsible AI Deployment
- Policy-Adjacent Technical Roles
- Civic Tech
- Public-Interest Technology