Sr. Software Engineer, Training/Inference (C++)
xAI · Palo Alto, CA; Seattle, WA · Palo Alto, CA
Frontier labonsitesenior$200k–$375k
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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