# Member of Technical Staff – X Core Product

**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

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/5063929007
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_c458163f-94a

## Description

## About the Role:

As a Software Engineer for X Product/Platform, you'll join a thirty-person team responsible for building and scaling X. You will be tasked with independently owning significant parts of the system end-to-end: from intuitive user interfaces to robust backend services, data infrastructure, and deep AI integrations.

## Responsibilities:

- Develop backend services, APIs, and data models to support high-volume, multi-user environments.

- Work with iOS, Android & Web client engineers to ship products.

- Design robust infrastructure and microservices for payments, transactions, growth, monetization, and engagement across platforms.

- Build and maintain fullstack features, including user dashboards, personalized experiences, content delivery, interactive tools, assessments, and real-time analytics.

- Lead architecture, scalability, and reliability decisions for high-concurrency, low-latency systems.

- Uphold engineering excellence via testing, monitoring, deployment, and secure data handling.

## Basic Qualifications:

- Proficiency in distributed systems for high-scale, low-latency environments; languages like Rust, Go, Python & Java, and high volume streaming systems.

- 2+ years of experience working on large scale consumer applications.

## 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
- distributed systems
- Rust
- Go
- Python
- Java
- high volume streaming systems

### Nice to have
- rapid prototyping
- user-centric design
- AI solutions