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Member of Technical Staff - Mid-training

xAI · Palo Alto, CA

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

Highlights

  • Scale synthetic coding data to trillions of tokens with verification.
  • Distill flagship models into flash models via synthetic data.
  • Optimize mid-training mixtures to boost the ceiling for RL.

What they offer

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

Ideal candidate

A curious, hands-on builder who thrives in small, flat teams, takes initiative, and cares deeply about engineering excellence and advancing understanding of the universe.

Requirements

  • Expertise in ML and large model scaling, with familiarity across all kinds of scaling laws.
  • Strong ability to design ML experiments.
  • Familiarity with state-of-the-art techniques for curating AI training data for text, image, audio, and video modalities.
  • Strong engineering abilities in Spark, Ray, and other frameworks for large-scale data processing.

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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