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Sr. Software Engineer, Training/Inference (C++)

xAI · Palo Alto, CA; Seattle, WA · Palo Alto, CA

Frontier labonsitesenior$200k–$375k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build the high-performance inference platform serving Grok to millions daily.
  • Own large-scale serving systems end-to-end for speed and reliability at scale.
  • Help shape next-gen systems for test-time compute and model-hardware co-design.

What they offer

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

Ideal candidate

Systems-minded engineer with deep low-level experience who thrives on optimization and owns large-scale production systems end-to-end to make AI fast and reliable for millions.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or science discipline
  • 5+ years of low-level systems programming experience in C/C++ or Rust
  • Experience with large-scale, high-concurrency production serving systems
  • Experience with GPU inference engines such as vLLM, SGLang, Triton or TensorRT-LLM
  • Strong background in batching, caching, load balancing and parallelism optimizations
  • Experience with GPU kernels, code generation and quantization or speculative decoding
  • Experience testing, benchmarking and ensuring reliability of inference services
  • Experience designing CI/CD infrastructure for inference deployments

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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