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Member of Technical Staff - RL Training Framework

xAI · Palo Alto, CA

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

Highlights

  • Build systems backing all RL workloads from ablations to production.
  • Optimize end-to-end training performance and scalability.
  • Improve observability across the RL training stack.

What they offer

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

Ideal candidate

A curious, hands-on engineer who thrives on hard problems and owns systems end to end. You care about engineering excellence, fast iteration, and scaling RL training reliably.

Requirements

  • Experience building, debugging, and optimizing efficiency of large-scale distributed systems
  • Comfortable diving into unfamiliar areas and solving problems at all levels of the stack
  • Proficiency in Python, Jax, Rust, and/or C++
  • Experience with large scale LLM training infrastructure
  • Strong knowledge of reinforcement learning techniques
  • Experience with RL numerics

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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