Member of Technical Staff - Pre-Training

Details

xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. The team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. The organization values hands-on contributors, initiative, strong prioritization, and excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement petabyte-scale, high-throughput data processing systems that involve both CPU- and GPU-based processing.
• Design and implement tools for orchestrating complex data pipelines.
• Design and implement innovative tools for improving data discoverability and data quality at scale for both pre-training and post-training across different modalities.
• Build, run, and manage innovative data pipelines for creating high-quality training data.

Requirements

• Strong systems skills in configuring and troubleshooting complex distributed data processing systems for maximum performance.
• Experience building bespoke data processing systems from scratch.
• Experience preparing pre-training and post-training data for state-of-the-art large language models and generative models.
• Experience organizing and meticulously bookkeeping data across multiple clouds, of multiple modalities, and from many sources.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary: $180,000 - $440,000 USD
• Total rewards package also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and other discounts and perks.

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