Model Engineer, Multimodal Understanding
xAI · Palo Alto, CA
Frontier labonsite$160k–$250k
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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