Member of Technical Staff, Multimodal Understanding (Visual / Audio)

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.

• Creating and driving engineering agenda to toward superhuman multimodal capabilities, which include both multimodal understanding and multimodal generation, across different modalities including image, video and audio.
• Improving data quality, developing data filtering/generation techniques, and performing data study, on pretraining scale.
• Creating evaluation frameworks and internal benchmarks.
• Designing and implementing effective and efficient algorithms for achieving state-of-the-art model performance.

• Hands-on experience on visual, audio or multimodal pretraining.
• Track record in leading engineering that significantly improves the capability and performance of neural networks, whether better data or better modeling.
• Experience in data-driven experiment designs and systematic analysis for iterative model debugging.
• Experience in developing or working with large-scale distributed machine learning systems.
• Ability to do whatever is necessary to deliver the best end-to-end user experience.

• Python
• Jax
• Rust

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 (“intro call”) during which a member of our team will ask some basic questions. If you clear the initial , you will enter the main process, which consists of four technical interviews:

• One-on-one engineering discussion & coding interviews (three meetings total)
• Meet the Team: 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. All interviews will be conducted via Google Meet.

The role is based in the SF Bay Area. Candidates are expected to be located near the Bay Area or open to relocation.

$180,000 - $440,000 USD

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.

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