# Member of Technical Staff - Internal Tools

**Company**: xAI
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**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 are looking for a backend engineer to join our xAI Tooling team (Starfleet). As a member of this team, you will design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable backend systems that empower our researchers, engineers, and product teams to build, experiment with, and deploy cutting-edge AI models and applications more effectively.

Responsibilities

- Design and build robust, scalable backend systems to power our AI-driven tools and platforms.

- Develop APIs and distributed systems that handle high-throughput data processing for model training and evaluation.

- Create secure, reliable pipelines to support innovative human data generation and agentic workflows.

- Optimise infrastructure to leverage cutting-edge GPU resources for maximum performance.

- Innovate new approaches that bring us closer to our goal: to develop AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge.

Basic Qualifications

- Experience building high-performance backend systems in dynamic, fast-paced environments - as a tech lead, former founder, etc.

- Expertise in designing scalable distributed systems and APIs with a compiled language like Rust or C++.

- Experience optimising data pipelines for machine learning workloads or real-time applications.

Preferred Skills and Experience

- Familiarity with frontend technologies (e.g., TypeScript, React) to collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional teams.

Compensation and Benefits

$180,000 - $440,000 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
- Rust
- C++
- APIs
- Distributed Systems
- Machine Learning
- Real-Time Applications

### Nice to have
- TypeScript
- React

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