Software Engineer, Data

xAI's mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge.

As a Software Engineer on xAI's Data team, you will be responsible for developing applications that power data acquisition, preparation, training, quality evaluation, and delivery for model training.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a highly reliable and scalable enterprise data platform to orchestrate data acquisition, preparation, training, quality evaluation, and delivery for model training
• Create new features such as data lineage, visibility, and monitoring for end-to-end training that improve the quality of the data and model performance
• Collaborate with peers on architecture, design, and code reviews
• Build prototypes to prove out key design concepts and quantify technical constraints
• Own all aspects of software engineering and product development
• Deep dive into business problems, find efficient solutions and apply first principles thinking

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, engineering, math, physics, or scientific discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience building software in lieu of a degree
• 1+ years of experience in application development, software engineering, data engineering, or data science

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Programming experience in Python, Rust, Java, C#, Scala, Go or similar languages
• Frontend experience in Angular, React, or similar JavaScript frameworks
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized deployments
• Experience with Ray, AI training and orchestration
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases, data lakes e.g. PostgreSQL, Iceberg, Clickhouse, or similar
• Experience with data exploration tools like Grafana, Superset, or similar
• Good understanding of version control, testing, continuous integration, build, deployment and monitoring
• Good understanding of statistics, machine learning algorithms and frameworks

Compensation and Benefits:

• Annual Salary Range: $240,000 - $280,000 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.