X Developer Platform – Forward Deployed Engineer, X API

Details

Location: New York City, NY; Palo Alto, CA

xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. The X Developer Platform team is responsible for the partner ecosystem of B2B and B2C developers that build solutions using X’s API set. The team collects, processes, enriches, and delivers hundreds of billions of signals a day through the X API platform, prioritizing high availability, scalability, and developer experience.

This Forward Deployed Engineer role works at the intersection of deep technical implementation and developer experience. You will build production solutions for enterprise customers, create sample apps and developer tools, improve DevEx tooling (SDKs, MCPs, CLIs, sandbox environments), and author comprehensive guides — with emphasis on X API + agentic/AI use cases and integrations. The role requires working directly with customers and collaborating with internal product and engineering teams to drive adoption and reduce friction across the developer ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with enterprise customers to understand business needs and rapidly build production-grade solutions, prototypes, integrations, and accelerators using the X API platform.
• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality sample applications, starter kits, reference implementations, and code examples for Enterprise and Indie developers.
• Build, enhance, and ship developer experience tools such as SDKs, MCPs, CLIs, Sandbox/Test Environments, and other tooling that improves developer productivity.
• Research, write, and continuously improve how-to guides, tutorials, cookbook recipes, technical blogs, and educational content — with emphasis on X API integrations, real-time data, AI Agents, LLMs, and emerging use cases.
• Continuously audit and elevate documentation, onboarding flows, code samples, and overall accessibility to improve developer experience.
• Gather feedback from customers and the developer community, advocate for their needs internally, and collaborate with Product and Engineering to influence roadmap and priorities.
• Diagnose complex technical issues, provide troubleshooting and long-term solutions, and turn learnings into public guides and tooling improvements.
• Streamline support processes and create scalable materials for managed partners and self-serve developers.

Requirements

• Exceptional coding proficiency in two or more languages (examples given: Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java) with a proven track record of shipping production-quality software, sample apps, prototypes, and developer tools.
• Strong understanding of API design principles, REST/GraphQL, real-time streaming systems, authentication, and modern AI/agent workflows.
• Hands-on experience building developer-facing assets: sample applications, reference implementations, DevEx tools, and high-quality technical documentation/guides.
• Deep passion for developer experience (DevEx) and the ability to identify and remove friction through better docs, tools, and APIs.
• 5+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role (partner engineering, solutions architecture, developer relations, forward-deployed engineering, or similar) working directly with enterprise customers.
• Ability to work comfortably and professionally with diverse stakeholders (software developers, product managers, technical executives, business leaders).
• Excellent project management skills, ability to scope, execute, and drive initiatives autonomously in a fast-paced environment.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical topics into clear documentation and presentations.
• Strong attention to detail and a solution-oriented mindset that turns customer problems into scalable improvements.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Previous experience building or contributing to developer platforms, tools, SDKs, interactive playgrounds, or educational content.
• Hands-on knowledge of AI/Agent frameworks, LLM integrations, or building AI-powered applications on top of data APIs.
• Industry experience in social media, enterprise software, data analytics, or real-time/streaming data.
• Familiarity with Rust, Scala, or other JVM-based programming languages.
• A public portfolio of sample apps, open-source contributions, technical blogs, guides, or DevEx tools.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary: $180,000 - $440,000 USD per year.
• 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 various other discounts and perks.

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