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Model Engineer, Multimodal Understanding

xAI · Palo Alto, CA

Frontier labonsite$160k–$250k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Push toward superhuman multimodal intelligence across image, video, audio, and text.
  • Build models that see, hear, reason, and interact with the world in real time.
  • Deliver frontier multimodal reasoning, world modeling, and agentic behaviors.

What they offer

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

Ideal candidate

Proactive self-starter who thrives in high-intensity environments and obsesses over end-to-end user experiences. Passionate about pushing multimodal AI frontiers and owning breakthrough initiatives from idea to product.

Requirements

  • Experience writing production-quality code in Python, PyTorch, JAX, Rust, or C++
  • Expert-level proficiency in Python with strong experience in JAX / PyTorch / XLA
  • Proven track record building or optimizing large-scale distributed ML systems
  • Deep experience designing and running data pipelines at scale for multimodal data
  • Strong fundamentals in evaluation design, benchmarks, reward modeling, or RL techniques
  • Experience leading major improvements in model capabilities through data, modeling, algorithms, or scaling
  • Familiarity with multimodal LLMs, scaling laws, tokenizers, compression, reasoning, or agentic systems
  • Proficiency in Rust and/or C++ for performance-critical components
  • Hands-on work with Spark, Ray, or Kubernetes

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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