2 days ago
Base Salary
$180k - $330k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and ship product features across the X Ads Platform.
- Work on ad delivery, targeting, optimization, measurement, and advertiser experience systems.
- Use SpaceXSI infrastructure and AI capabilities to improve advertising product performance and quality.
- Contribute to reliable, fast, and scalable distributed systems.
- Collaborate with engineers, product leads, and cross-functional partners to turn ideas into working products.
- Debug, maintain, and improve production systems serving real users and driving significant business impact.
- Take ownership and deliver high-quality software in a fast-moving environment.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building software through internships, projects, research, open-source work, startups, or full-time roles.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to write clean, maintainable code.
- Ability to learn new codebases quickly and solve problems in ambiguous environments.
- Interest or experience in backend systems, distributed systems, data pipelines, product engineering, or AI applications.
- Experience with large-scale backend systems or data processing pipelines is preferred.
- Experience with ads, recommendations, search, ranking, marketplaces, payments, analytics, or growth systems is preferred.
- Experience with React, Golang, Python, Rust, gRPC, Java, or Scala is preferred.
- Experience with machine learning, LLMs, experimentation, ranking, or optimization systems is preferred.
- Prior startup, research, internship, or high-impact project experience is preferred.
- Strong ownership, learning speed, bias toward action, and ability to ship.
Benefits
- $180,000 - $330,000 USD base salary.
- Equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
- Short- and long-term disability insurance and life insurance.
- Various discounts and perks.
About xAI
Understand the Universe. We are a team of AI technologists and business leaders on a mission to build AI systems that can help humanity understand the world better. https://x.ai/careers