Backend Engineer
Backend Engineer building and scaling highly-available services for Fathom's AI meeting assistant. Requires strong Rails and Kubernetes/Go experience to improve reliability, efficiency, and customer experience at massive scale.
Builds scalable backend systems, APIs, data pipelines, and tooling for AI model training, inference, and deployment. Requires expertise in Rust/C++, distributed systems, and ML data pipelines in fast-paced environments.
$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.
Backend Engineer building and scaling highly-available services for Fathom's AI meeting assistant. Requires strong Rails and Kubernetes/Go experience to improve reliability, efficiency, and customer experience at massive scale.
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