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Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Model

xAI · Palo Alto, CA

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Frontier labonsite$180k–$440k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Develop cutting-edge AI experiences beyond text across modalities.
  • Advance image and video generation, editing and understanding.
  • Build controllable long-horizon synthesis and world simulation.

What they offer

  • equity
  • comprehensive medical coverage
  • vision coverage
  • dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • short & long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
  • discounts and perks

Ideal candidate

Hands-on, curious engineer who thrives on hard problems and flat, high-ownership teams. Motivated by advancing visual generative AI and delivering exceptional end-to-end user experiences.

Requirements

  • Track record leading studies improving neural network capabilities via better data or modeling
  • Experience with data-driven experiment design, systematic analysis and iterative debugging
  • Experience developing or working with large-scale distributed ML systems
  • Ability to deliver optimal end-to-end user experiences
  • Hands-on, excellent communicator with initiative, work ethic and prioritization skills
  • Experience with SFT, RL, evals, human/synthetic data collection or agentic systems
  • Proficiency in Python, JAX/XLA, PyTorch, Rust/C++, Spark, Ray and related frameworks
  • Domain expertise in image/video understanding and generation, world models or real-time simulation
  • Experience with agentic RL training, controllable long-horizon generation or multimodal agents

Lab profile

About xAI

Builds AI systems to understand the universe and advance human knowledge.

Known for

  • Engineering excellence focus
  • Large-scale data center operations
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