Build and own a mission-critical research platform for evaluating AI model capabilities and behaviors at xAI. Design instruments, datasets, grading schemes, and infrastructure to measure, diagnose, and improve models while shipping delightful internal tools.
175k – 275k/yr
On-site3+ YOEML Engineering
About the role
Responsibilities
Own and elevate our mission-critical research platform that directly accelerates xAI’s frontier work.
Design, build, and ship delightful and bulletproof systems that engineers love to use every day.
Create and execute instruments for measuring model capabilities and behaviors.
Use instruments to clean datasets, provide feedback for experiments, and track growth throughout training.
Diagnose why agents fail and how to make improvements both short and long term.
Manage the execution infrastructure, design data sets and grading schemes.
Requirements
Software engineering proficiency and 3+ years of experience actively writing code.
A track record of shipping high quality projects and a strong sense of urgency.
Exceptional product taste - you have a sharp sense for what “good” looks like in outputs, and you can translate fuzzy notions of quality, helpfulness, truthfulness, and safety into concrete, measurable criteria.
Strong attention to detail.
Nice-to-Haves
Previously founded a startup or joined a fast-growing early-stage startup.
Familiarity with AI/ML workflows, annotation tools, or evals.
Experience creating and maintaining component libraries, design systems, or internal tools.
Compensation and Benefits
$175,000 - $275,000 USD base salary.
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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