# Analytics Engineer - X

**Company**: xAI
**Location**: Palo Alto, California
**Experience**: senior
**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

xAI is seeking a skilled Analytics Engineer to build and maintain robust data systems that enable high-impact quantitative analysis and business decision-making.

This role combines strong software engineering practices with expertise in large-scale data processing and advanced analytical methods to deliver reliable, scalable solutions across the organization.

## Responsibilities:

- Design, implement, and optimize end-to-end data pipelines for processing high-volume datasets using tools such as Spark, Kafka, Flink, etc.

- Develop quantitative models and statistical frameworks to support experimentation, forecasting, and performance measurement.

- Build and maintain data infrastructure that ensures data quality, consistency, and accessibility for analytical workflows.

- Collaborate with product engineering, product, and operations teams to translate business requirements into production-grade data systems and insights.

- Conduct A/B tests, causal analysis, and performance evaluations to drive measurable improvements in key metrics.

- Implement monitoring, alerting, and automation for data systems to support real-time decision support.

- Mentor team members on best practices for scalable data engineering and quantitative problem-solving.

## Basic Qualifications:

- 4+ years of experience building production data pipelines and infrastructure at scale.

- Strong proficiency in Python, SQL, and distributed computing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Flink, Hadoop).

- Demonstrated expertise in statistical methods, predictive modeling, hypothesis testing, and experimental design.

- Solid understanding of cloud services for data storage, processing, and orchestration.

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or related quantitative field.

- Excellent problem-solving skills with a focus on delivering business impact through reliable systems.

## Preferred Skills and Experience:

- Prior work in consumer technology, or social media domains.

- Experience with real-time streaming systems and low-latency data processing.

- Contributions to open-source data tools or publications on large-scale analytics systems.

- Track record of reducing operational costs or improving system efficiency through data optimizations.

- Ability to bridge engineering excellence with rigorous analytical approaches.

## Compensation and Benefits:

The salary range is $180,000 - $440,000 USD. The total rewards package at xAI 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
- SQL
- Spark
- Flink
- Hadoop
- distributed computing
- statistical methods
- predictive modeling
- hypothesis testing
- experimental design
- cloud services

### Nice to have
- real-time streaming systems
- low-latency data processing
- open-source data tools
- large-scale analytics systems
- data optimizations

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