xAI · 2 months ago
Member of Technical Staff, Web-scale Multimodal Modeling
Palo Alto, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$180K/yr - $440K/yrxAI is a company focused on creating AI systems that understand the universe and aid humanity. They are seeking a Member of Technical Staff to work on training multimodal models and pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities in a hands-on environment.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Training trillion parameter multimodal models at the web scale, as well as a variety of smaller specialized models
Pushing boundaries in spatial-temporal compression, world modeling, multimodal reasoning, cross-modal alignment, and emergent capabilities
Rapidly implementing the latest state-of-the-art methods from the deep learning literature
Innovating new ideas for pretraining and new scaling paradigm
Qualification
Required
Strong engineering skills with passion on model-hardware co-design
Expert in ML and large model scaling, familiar with all kinds of scaling laws
Familiar with distributed training, multi-GPU neural network training and experience on optimizing ML training efficiency
Familiar with state-of-the-art techniques for multimodal language models, especially for image/video understanding
Strong communication skills
Ability to concisely and accurately share knowledge with teammates
Work ethic and strong prioritization skills
Benefits
Equity
Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
Short & long-term disability insurance
Life insurance
Various other discounts and perks
Company
xAI
XAI is an artificial intelligence startup that develops AI solutions and tools to enhance reasoning and search capabilities.
Founded in 2023
11-50 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$42.73BKey Investors
Neptune Digital AssetsSpaceXMorgan Stanley
2026-01-06Series E· $20B
2025-12-11Secondary Market· $0.3M
2025-07-13Corporate Round· $5.32B
Leadership Team
Toby Pohlen
Founding Member
Recent News
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