Member of Technical Staff – X Core Product

About the Role

As a Member of Technical Staff on the X Core Product team, 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.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• 5+ years of experience working on large scale consumer applications or early-mid stage startup experience as a founding engineer, emphasizing rapid prototyping, user-centric design, and AI solutions.

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.