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Member of Technical Staff - Multimodal Understanding

xAI · Palo Alto, CA

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Frontier labonsite$180k–$440k
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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
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