🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll design and build massive-scale compute clusters and orchestration platforms for frontier AI training and inference at xAI. Your work will directly impact the reliability and performance of next-generation AI systems. This role offers the chance to push beyond existing technologies like Kubernetes in a fast-paced, flat organization.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Build and manage massive-scale clusters for AI workloads.
• Design and extend an in-house container orchestration platform.
• Collaborate with research teams to optimize compute clusters.
• Profile, debug, and resolve system-level performance bottlenecks.

📋 Requirements

• Deep expertise in virtualization technologies (KVM, Xen, QEMU).
• Strong proficiency in C/C++ and Rust.
• Proven track record profiling and optimizing complex system-level performance issues.
• Hands-on experience building or enhancing distributed compute platforms at scale.

✨ Nice to Have

• Experience in Linux kernel development or hypervisor extensions.
• Track record operating large-scale AI training/inference clusters (GPU/TPU).
• Familiarity with performance tools and tracing in production environments.

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 💰 Equity included in total rewards.
• 🏥 Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• 🏦 401(k) retirement plan.
• 🛡️ Short and long-term disability insurance.
• 📈 Life insurance and various discounts.