Member of Technical Staff

xAI
Palo Alto, CA, USA2026-06-24

About the job

Write code and tests for production services, offline jobs, and internal tools in creating a well-crafted code base. Build storage systems, libraries, and frameworks that help X Corp. scale. Deploy and maintain production services, while finding ways to minimize the ongoing effort required to operate these services. Work on the scalability, resilience, and efficiency of backend components. Collect, clean up, and analyze data to draw insights and formulate ideas, working alongside Product Engineering, Product Management, and Interaction Design teams, and other engineers to plan, implement, and validate solutions to user problems.

Responsibilities

Write code and tests for production services, offline jobs, and internal tools

Build storage systems, libraries, and frameworks that help X Corp. scale

Deploy and maintain production services, while finding ways to minimize the ongoing effort required to operate these services

Work on the scalability, resilience, and efficiency of backend components

Collect, clean up, and analyze data to draw insights and formulate ideas

Plan, implement, and validate solutions to user problems

Qualifications

Minimum

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Technology, Information Systems, or a related field

1 year of experience in software development

1 year of experience with Java, Scala, Python, NodeJS, and React

1 year of experience with backend development, including building scalable services and frameworks

1 year of experience with large language models and recommendation algorithms

1 year of experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure management

1 year of experience in applied advanced probabilistic modeling and mathematical analysis for product optimization and safety evaluation

1 year of experience with safety-related content classification

Preferred

No preferred qualifications listed.