About xAI

xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All engineers are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.

About the Role

The omni team at xAI creates magical AI experiences beyond text, enabling understanding and generation of content across various modalities, including image, video, and audio.

You will craft the ultimate multimodal data recipe for training an omni-model that unlocks the universe's secrets through image, audio and video. To achieve this vision, we're seeking visionary engineers with deep expertise in video data.

Focus

Discover and source video datasets with crawling team.
Building scalable infrastructure for video data curation and management.
Craft insightful experiments to assess video dataset performance.
Innovate the recipe for scaling video pre-training data..

Ideal Experiences

Keeping up with state-of-the-art techniques for preparing multimodal training data.
Strong ability to design ML experiments.
Familiarity with state-of-the-art techniques for curating AI training data for image, audio and video modalities.
Strong engineering abilities in Spark, Ray, and other frameworks for large-scale data processing..

Location

The role is based in the Bay Area [San Francisco and Palo Alto] and Seattle, WA. Candidates are expected to be located near the Bay Area or Seattle or open to relocation.

Tech Stack

Python
Spark
Ray

Interview Process

After submitting your application, the team reviews your CV and statement of exceptional work. If your application passes this stage, you will be invited to a 15 minute interview (“phone interview”) during which a member of our team will ask some basic questions. If you clear the initial phone interview, you will enter the main process, which consists of four technical interviews:

Coding assessment in a language of your choice.
Technical sessions (2): These sessions will be testing your ability to formulate, design and solve concrete problems in real world with LLM.
Project deep-dive: Present your past exceptional work and your vision with xAI to a small audience.

Every application is reviewed by a member of our technical team. Our goal is to finish the main process within one week. All interviews will be conducted via Google Meet.

Annual Salary Range

$180,000 - $440,000 USD

Benefits

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

xAI is an equal opportunity employer. For details on data processing, view our Recruitment Privacy Notice.

Member of Technical Staff, Web Scale Video Data