# Software Engineer - Platform Infrastructure (Rust, C++)

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

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## Description

xAI's mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. You will join a small, highly motivated team focused on engineering excellence. The organization operates with a flat structure where all employees are expected to be hands-on and contribute directly to the company's mission.

## Responsibilities:

- Design, build, and implement a large-scale distributed system powering one of the world's largest supercomputing clusters.

- Profile, debug, and optimize performance across diverse systems, including GPUs, Linux kernel, networking, and filesystems.

- Collaborate on hardware, software, and algorithm co-design to advance AI training.

- Maintain and innovate the codebase to ensure scalability and reliability.

- Develop tools to enhance team productivity and streamline workflows.

## Basic Qualifications:

- Experience with systems programming in C, C++, or Rust.

- Understanding of computer systems fundamentals, including how computers execute code from transistors to high-level applications.

- Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes (K8s), including cluster architecture, pod lifecycle, networking, storage, service mesh, and production-grade operations.

## Preferred Skills and Experience:

- Strong debugging skills across the full stack, from kernel and OS to container orchestration layers.

- Deep knowledge of operating systems internals, including process scheduling, memory management, file systems, and synchronization primitives.

- Proficiency in performance analysis, profiling, and low-level optimization techniques.

- Solid understanding of computer networks and the TCP/IP stack.

- Experience with Linux kernel concepts or systems-level debugging tools like perf, gdb, strace, and Wireshark.

- Proficiency in deploying and managing workloads using Kubernetes manifests, Helm, Operators, and GitOps workflows.

- Solid understanding of containerization technologies like Docker, containerd, and crio, and their interaction with the Linux kernel.

- Experience with observability and monitoring in distributed systems using Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, OpenTelemetry, or similar.

## 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 and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

## Skills

### Required
- Systems programming
- C
- C++
- Rust
- Computer systems fundamentals
- Kubernetes
- Linux kernel

### Nice to have
- Debugging
- Operating systems internals
- Performance analysis
- Computer networks
- TCP/IP stack
- Linux kernel concepts
- Kubernetes manifests
- Helm
- GitOps workflows
- Containerization technologies
- Observability
- Monitoring

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