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