Member of Technical Staff - Hardcore Supercompute
Join our cutting-edge team at xAI to design and build the backbone of next-generation AI infrastructure. As a Hardcore Engineer, you'll tackle complex challenges in large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, GPU optimization, and machine learning frameworks to accelerate human scientific discovery. This role is perfect for engineers who thrive on pushing hardware and software to their limits in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
In this position, you will design, build, and implement a large-scale distributed system that powers one of the world's largest supercomputing clusters. Your responsibilities will include profiling, debugging, and optimizing performance across diverse systems, including GPUs, Linux kernel, networking, and filesystems, to achieve peak efficiency. Collaboration on hardware, software, and algorithm co-design to push the boundaries of AI training is also a key aspect of this role. Additionally, you will maintain and innovate on our codebase to ensure scalability and reliability, and develop tools to enhance team productivity and streamline workflows.
The ideal candidate will have experience writing scalable and highly available containerized applications in Rust. Proficiency in managing compute fleets with Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible, or other stateful automation libraries is essential. A strong ability to collaborate in a fast-paced, open environment to design and ship features is also required. Preferred skills include proficiency in languages such as Rust, C++, and Golang.
Compensation for this role ranges from $180,000 to $440,000 USD annually. The total rewards package at xAI also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.
At xAI, we operate with a flat organizational structure where all employees are expected to be hands-on and contribute directly to the company's mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. We value a strong work ethic, prioritization skills, and effective communication. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence, making it an ideal environment for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity.