# Software Engineer, Data

**Company**: xAI
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $240,000 - $280,000 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.

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.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- software engineering
- data engineering
- data science
- application development

### Nice to have
- Rust
- Java
- C#
- Scala
- Go
- Angular
- React
- Kubernetes
- Ray
- PostgreSQL
- Iceberg
- Clickhouse
- Grafana
- Superset

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