# Member of Technical Staff – Web Foundations

**Company:** [xAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/xai)
**Location:** Palo Alto, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $180k – $440k/yr
**Skills:** TypeScript, Node.js, React, CSS, Sass, Rust, Go, Java, Python, Scala
**Posted:** 2026-03-19

> Fullstack web engineers with frontend passion architect and optimize user-facing features for real-time conversations, handling dashboards, analytics, and scalable systems. Requires 2+ years experience, expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, React, and modern CSS.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own and drive features from inception and design to implementation and launch, being the web expert on your team.
- Build and maintain high-quality, performant products and features, leveraging the most modern and cutting edge web standards, technologies, frameworks, and AI tooling.
- Responsible for fullstack features, including user dashboards, personalized experiences, content delivery, interactive tools, assessments, and real-time analytics.
- Lead architecture, scalability, and reliability decisions for high-concurrency, low-latency systems.
- Uphold engineering excellence via testing, monitoring, deployment, and secure data handling.
- Drive technical/product decisions with teams and deploy global features to maximize user value.

## Basic Qualifications
- 2+ years of web development experience.
- Expert in TypeScript, Node.js, and modern web frameworks (e.g., React).
- Expert in modern CSS/SASS.
- Experience in high-quality UI and UX design.
- Proven track record of optimizing applications for performance, security, and offline functionality.

## Preferred Skills and Experience
- 5+ years of experience in a web frontend role, working on a large scale consumer app.
- Experience with backend development, proficiency in one or more of the following: Rust, Go, Java, Python, Scala.

## Compensation and Benefits
**$180,000 - $440,000 USD**

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

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