Member of Technical Staff - Multimodal Understanding
xAI · Palo Alto, CA
CHECKED 12H AGO
Frontier labonsite$180k–$440k
At a glance
Highlights
- Push toward superhuman multimodal intelligence across image, video, audio and text.
- Build models that see, hear, and interact with the world in real time.
- Deliver frontier world modeling and interactive human-AI collaboration.
What they offer
- Equity
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short & long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
Ideal candidate
A proactive, high-intensity builder who thrives on curiosity and ownership, passionate about pushing multimodal AI frontiers to create real-time, human-centered experiences.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with multimodal pre-training, post-training, or fine-tuning (vision, audio, video, or cross-modal).
- Expert-level proficiency in Python (core language), with strong experience in at least one of: JAX / PyTorch / XLA.
- Proven track record building or optimizing large-scale distributed ML systems (training/inference optimization, GPU utilization, multi-GPU/TPU setups, hardware co-design).
- Deep experience designing and running data pipelines at scale: curation, filtering, generation, quality studies, especially for noisy/real-world multimodal data.
- Strong fundamentals in evaluation design, benchmarks, reward modeling, or RL techniques (particularly for interactive/agentic behaviors).
- Proactive self-starter who thrives in high-intensity environments and is passionate about pushing multimodal AI frontiers.
- Willingness to own end-to-end initiatives and do whatever it takes to deliver breakthrough user experiences.
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