💼 About This Role

You'll design petabyte-scale data processing systems for pre-training large language models at xAI. Your work will directly impact the quality of AI training data through innovative tooling and pipeline orchestration. This role offers a chance to join a small, flat team focused on engineering excellence.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Design and implement petabyte-scale data processing systems with CPU/GPU
• Design tools for orchestrating complex data pipelines
• Design tools for improving data discoverability and quality at scale
• Build and manage innovative data pipelines for training data

📋 Requirements

• Strong systems skills in distributed data processing systems configuration and troubleshooting
• Building bespoke data processing systems from scratch
• Preparing pre-training and post-training data for large language models
• Organizing and bookkeeping data across multiple clouds and modalities

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 💰 Equity
• 🏥 Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
• 📈 401(k) retirement plan
• 🛡️ Disability and life insurance
• 🎁 Various discounts and perks

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks · AI estimate

1. 1Recruiter call· 30 min
2. 2Technical interview· 60 min
3. 3Onsite interviews· 4 hours