Software Engineer - Data

About the Company

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.

Responsibilities

• Develop a highly reliable and scalable enterprise data platform to orchestrate data acquisition, preparation, training, quality evaluation, and delivery for model training
• Create new features such as data lineage, visibility, and monitoring for end-to-end training
• Collaborate with peers on architecture, design, and code reviews
• Build prototypes to prove out key design concepts and quantify technical constraints
• Own all aspects of software engineering and product development
• Deep dive into business problems, find efficient solutions and apply first principles thinking

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, engineering, math, physics, or scientific discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience
• 1+ years of experience in application development, software engineering, data engineering, or data science

Preferred Qualifications

• Programming experience in Python, Rust, Java, C#, Scala, or Go
• Frontend experience in Angular, React, or similar JavaScript frameworks
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized deployments
• Experience with Ray, AI training and orchestration
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases, data lakes (e.g., PostgreSQL, Iceberg, Clickhouse)
• Experience with data exploration tools like Grafana or Superset
• Understanding of version control, testing, CI/CD, and monitoring
• Understanding of statistics, machine learning algorithms and frameworks

Benefits

• Equity
• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance