Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Model
xAI · Palo Alto, CA
CHECKED 14H AGO
Frontier labonsite$180k–$440k
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