About the Role
The post-training team at xAI transforms powerful pre-trained models to become steerable, versatile, and capable of understanding and addressing real-world challenges.
To accomplish this, we are looking for expert full-stack developers to join our team to improve our research tooling and advance our research. Key responsibilities of the role include developing user-friendly, high-performance data management and visualization tools, creating model evaluation platforms and optimizing the efficiency of the entire post-training workflow.
Focus
- Building user-friendly and performant data management and visualization interfaces.
- Building user-friendly and performant model evaluation applications.
- Building research demos to explore the frontier of AI products, and iterate quickly based on real-world feedback.
- Owning end-to-end experience of the created application, and working within teams and cross functions to improve the experience.
Ideal Experiences
- Expert full-stack developer.
- Experienced in standard software engineering best practices (CI/CD) and care about code quality, testing, and performance.
- Familiar with common post-training workflows such as supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback.
Location
The role is based in the Bay Area [San Francisco and Palo Alto]. Candidates are expected to be located near the Bay Area or open to relocation.
Tech Stack
- Python
- TypeScript, React
- Rust
- gRPC
Interview Process
After submitting your application, the team will review your CV and statement of exceptional work. If your application passes this stage, you will be invited to a 15-minute interview (“phone interview”) during which a member of our team will ask some basic questions. If you clear the initial phone interview, you will enter the main technical interviews:
- 1 coding assessment in a programming language of your choice.
- 2 x post-training tooling technical sessions: These sessions will be assessing your engineering skills to design and implement solutions to solve tooling problems in post-training.
- Meet the Team: Present your past exceptional work and your vision with xAI to a few more members from the team.
Our goal is to finish the main process within one week. We don’t rely on recruiters for assessments. Every application is reviewed by a member of our technical team. All interviews will be conducted via Google Meet.
Annual Salary Range
$180,000 - $440,000 USD