# Software Engineer - Networking Software and Services

**Company**: xAI
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150,000 - $250,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120599684

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a Software Engineer - Networking Software and Services at xAI, you'll be part of the Network Software and Services for AI (nssAI) team. You'll build cutting-edge software, services, and frameworks to empower Network Development Engineers. Your work will involve all facets of network management, including metric collection, configuration, zero-touch provisioning, monitoring, and auto-remediation. You'll drive automation-first solutions for xAI's production and ancillary networks, developing extensible tools, streamlining complex processes, and ensuring high reliability.

## Responsibilities

You'll focus on:

- Building software and tools with extensive metrics coverage for large GPU supercomputing network fabrics used for AI training and serving customer inference queries.

- Implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices, enhancing deployment pipelines, and ensuring robust, secure service delivery across production environments.

## Requirements and Preferences

- Deep experience collaborating with network engineers, using extensive knowledge of network topologies and protocols.

- Expert knowledge and proven history in designing scalable and reliable software from scratch that can build and orchestrate tens of thousands of network devices quickly.

- Ability to thrive in ambiguity, creating metrics to prioritize team focus and your own.

## Technical Skills

- Python

- Go

- TCP/IP

- BGP

- RDMA

## Compensation

The annual salary range is $150,000 - $250,000.

## Benefits

The total rewards package at xAI 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
- Go
- TCP/IP
- BGP
- RDMA
- network management
- automation

### Nice to have
- IaC best practices
- deployment pipelines
- network topologies
- network protocols

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