Job Summary:
xAI is focused on creating AI systems that enhance human understanding and knowledge. The Software Engineer on the Data team will develop applications that facilitate data acquisition and preparation for model training, ensuring high-quality data is utilized effectively.
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 that improve the quality of the data and model performance
• 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
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, engineering, math, physics, or scientific discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience building software in lieu of a degree
• 1+ years of experience in application development, software engineering, data engineering, or data science
Preferred:
• Programming experience in Python, Rust, Java, C#, Scala, Go or similar languages
• 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, or similar
• Experience with data exploration tools like Grafana, Superset, or similar
• Good understanding of version control, testing, continuous integration, build, deployment and monitoring
• Good understanding of statistics, machine learning algorithms and frameworks
Company:
XAI is an artificial intelligence startup that develops AI solutions and tools to enhance reasoning and search capabilities. It is a sub-organization of SpaceX. Founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.